286 FAUNA OF NEW ZEALAND. 



Beyond these are a few scattered blackish dots, chiefly on the ner- 

 vures and outer margin, and in some individuals there is a slight 

 fuscous cloud near the apex. Disc with a small black crescent. 

 Posterior wings pale, with an indistinct transverse striga across 

 the disc. 



120. Cidaria ? cinerearia. Doubleday, n. s. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. British Museum. Dr. Sinclair. 



Exp. Alar., 9 lin. 



Anterior wings acuminate, very slightly falcate, pale brownish- 

 ash, with numerous fuscous strigee, mostly very slender, but occa- 

 sionally uniting to form transverse bands, of which one, not very 

 distinct, is situated near the base, another a little before, and a 

 third a little beyond the middle, these two being very distinct 

 near the costa, but almost obliterated near the inner margin. 

 Near the outer margin, which is rather darker than the ground- 

 colour of the wing, is a slender much-waved whitish striga, and 

 near the middle of the costa is a minute white dot. Posterior 

 ashy-white, rather shining, with numerous indistinct fuscous strigse. 

 Antennae of the male emitting from their lower surface two stout 

 pectinations of unequal length, closely approximating at their 

 origin, clothed with a delicate silky pubescence ; at the base and 

 apex these pectinations are very short. Palpi rather long. 



This interesting little species will undoubtedly some day be 

 found to constitute a genus distinct from that in which I have 

 provisionally placed it, but only having seen one sex of it I was 

 unwilling to attempt to characterise it generically. 



121. Acidcdia pulchraria. Doubled ay ,n.s. 



Inhabits New Zealand. British Museum. Dr. Sinclair. 



Exp. Alar., 11 lin. 



Anterior wings elongate, trigonate, posterior subquadrate ; all 

 pale greenish-white, marked beyond the middle with five common 

 transverse strigae, composed of faint lunulated dots. The poste- 

 rior wings have a faint indication of two or three strigee near the 

 base, and a small greenish discoidal dot. 



122. Ptychopoda? rubraria. Doubleday, n. s. 

 Inhabits New Zealand. British Museum. Dr. Sinclair. 



Exp. Alar., 9-10 lin. 



All the wings pale brownish, irrorated with fuscous, the pos- 

 terior slightly tinged with reddish, the outer margins with a series 

 of small black dots. Anterior wings with a slender much-waved 



