404 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON HETEROCEROUS [May 1, 



125. Steganoptycha?negligens, n.sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 18.) 



Primaries sordid white, clouded with yellow ; a broad oblique 

 subbasal blackish band, not reaching the costal margin ; a broad 

 slightly angulated oblique central band, yellowish irroratcd with 

 grey above the median vein, becoming reddish-brown below it ; the 

 apical half of costal margin and the outer margin spotted with fer- 

 ruginous, fringe grey ; secondaries brown, costal area white ; head 

 white, collar and shoulders yellow, tegulse whitish ; thorax and abdo- 

 men brown : primaries below pale brown, costal and external borders 

 alternately white and brown ; secondaries white, the veins, abdominal 

 area, and a streak through the cell brown, fringe brown crossed by 

 a central pale line ; body below white. Expanse of wings 4^ lines. 



Canterbury plains. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 



Seems allied to S. dealbana ; but the primaries are slightly 

 narrower. 



Choreutid^. 



126. Orosana atra, n. sp. 



Shining purplish brown ; primaries with a spot close to the base, 

 a zigzag transverse subbasal line, a spot at the end of the cell, and 

 a sigmoidal discal line from costa to inner margin black ; a dot 

 beyond the cell, and two subapical marginal dots, creamy whitish ; 

 collar below clothed with white hairs. Expanse of wings 4| lines. 



Canterbury plains. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 



The darkest known species of this little Australian genus. 



Tineites. 



TlNEID^. 



127. Tinea rectella. 



Tinea rectella, Walker, Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 482 (1863). 

 Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 



128. Tinea pal^strica, n. sp. 



Primaries with the basal third dark brown, remainder of the 

 wing sandy whitish ; a large round spot beyond the cell, encircled 

 by a complete series of smaller spots, all grey ; beyond this a longi- 

 tudinal streak of grej', bounded on each side by two black dots ; 

 fringe, excepting at external angle, brownish ; secondaries shining 

 sandy whitish ; head snow-white, tufted ; thorax brown, a yellow 

 spot on the centre of the prothorax ; abdomen testaceous : wings 

 below shining testaceous ; body rather darker testaceous. Expanse 

 of wings 8 lines. 



Coll. Dr. Hector. 



Closely allied to the European T. tapetzella. 



Plutellid^. 



129. Cerostoma fulgtjratella. 



Cerostoma fulguratella. Walker, Lep. Het. xxviii. p. 548 (1863). 

 Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 



