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Fore-wings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, termen 

 oblique, rounded beneath ; fuscous, irregularly strewn with white, 

 ochreous-brown, and black scales ; markings very undefined ; the 

 black scales indicate an angulated basal patch, a large irregular 

 blotch on middle of costa, some raised tufts in disc, and an apical 

 patch ; the anterior edge of the costal blotch is margined with white 

 suffusion ; an obscure roundish spot of brownish-ochreous suffusion 

 beneath disc beyond middle : cilia fuscous, basal half mixed with 

 white and blackish. Hind-wings dark fuscous ; cilia fuscous, with 

 dark fuscous subbasal shade. 



One specimen, Mangaterera River, Mount Holdsworth. 

 Comparable with T. anastrella from the dark fuscous hind- 

 wings, but apart from the more blackish mixture of fore- 

 wings (which are also more elongate), differing widely in 

 the antennal ciliations of $ , which are short (f ) and even, 

 whilst in anastrella they are long (3) and whorled ; this 

 character is not noticed in my description of anastrella. 

 The length of ciliations differs considerably in various 

 species of Trachypepla, and appears to afford here specific 

 characters only. 



Trachypepla lathriopa, sp. n. 



£. 14-16 mm. Head and thorax brown. Palpi brownish- 

 ochreous, sprinkled with dark fuscous, extreme tips of second and 

 terminal joints whitish. Antenna? dark fuscous, ciliations l£, even. 

 Abdomen rather dark fuscous. Fore-wings elongate, costa moder- 

 ately arched, apex round-pointed, termen very obliquely rounded ; 

 light reddish-fuscous, irregularly sprinkled with brown aud dark 

 fuscous ; edge of basal patch indicated by a very obscure pale acutely 

 angulated narrow fascia ; stigmata dark fuscous, very undefined, 

 plical rather obliquely beyond first discal ; a subterminal series of 

 undefined dark fuscous dots, indented beneath costa ; a series of 

 undefined dark fuscous dots along posterior part of costa and termen : 

 cilia whitish-fuscous, tinged with reddish, with a grey postmedian 

 shade. Hind-wings dark fuscous, lighter towards base ; cilia grey, 

 with dark grey basal shade. 



Six specimens, taken by myself at Wellington, Nelson, 

 and on the Mt. Arthur plateau in January, and also 

 received from Mr. Hudson. Very like obscure examples 

 of anastrella, with which I have hitherto confused it, but 

 obviously longer-winged, aud certainly distinct by the 

 much shorter and evenly-arranged ciliations of antennas. 



