BY E. MEYBICK, B.A. 447 



I took two males at Wellington, New Zealand, amongst forest 

 growth in January ; and later another at Auckland. 



2. Cap. decolorana, Walk. 

 (Gmpliolita, decolorana. Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat. 392.) 



$ ? . 6"-6". Head, palpi, antenna, thorax and abdomen 

 pale whitish-ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior and 

 middle tarsi dark fuscous towards base of joints. Forewings 

 moderate, costa gently arched, slightly bent before middle, hind- 

 margin almost straight, oblique ; pale whitish-ochreous, some- 

 times irregularly suffused with darker ochreous ; costa and inner 

 margin irregularly strigulated with dark fuscous ; a small oblique 

 ochreous-fuscous spot below middle at one-third from base, 

 posteriorly blackish-edged, representing angle of an obsolete 

 basal patch ; central fascia very oblique, from before middle of 

 costa to anal angle, ochreous-fuscous mixed posteriorly with dark 

 fuscous, narrow on costa, lower two-thirds much dilated but 

 anteriorly suffused ; a subquadrate ochreous-fuscous spot on costa 

 before apex, its angle towards middle of disc somewhat produced ; 

 an irregular obscure dark fuscous line from apex along hind- 

 margin : cilia whitish-ochreous, extremities mixed with dark 

 fuscous, especially towards anal angle ; costal fold of male with 

 an expansible tuft of whitish hairs. Hindwings'and cilia whitish 

 or pale grey. 



Distinguished from the other pale ochreous species by its much 

 lighter markings ; it is also proportionately rather broader-winged 

 and the central fascia is conspicuously dilated on its lower two- 

 thirds. 



I have six specimens, taken at Sydney, Bulli, and Murrurundi, 

 New South Wales, in October and April, amongst dry scrub ; 

 and have also seen others from Launceston, in Tasmania, and 

 from Melbourne. Walker's typo is^from Sydney. 



