1877.] lepidoptera from new zealand. 405 



Gejlechiid^. 



The New-Zealand species referred to Gelechia by Mr. Walker are 

 (as Mr. McLaclilan has pointed out to me) none of them members 

 of that genus. The following should be referred to CEcophora — 

 Gelechia innoteUa, intacte.Ua, monospilella, Jlavidella, coUitella, 

 convulsella, and contextella. 



Gelechia subditella is identical with the European Endrosis fe- 

 nestrella. 



130. CEcophora pseudospretella. 



CEcophora pseudospretella, Stainton, Cat. 14, I. B. 162 (1854). 

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

 A common European species. 



131. (Ecophora sordida, n. sp. 



Primaries pale shining brown ; a small arched marking just beyond 

 the end of the cell, the outer border, and fringe grey ; secondaries 

 silvery white ; body testaceous : wings below silvery white, prima- 

 ries slightly brownish ; pectus (apparently) silvery white ; legs and 

 venter pale testaceous. Expanse of wings 10 lines. 



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



Allied to the preceding species. 



132. CEcophora grtseata, n. sp. 



"Wings and body above shining grey ; primaries irrorated with 

 brown, crossed by two widely separated indistinct oblique brown 

 lines, the inner one angulated at the median nervure, the outer one, 

 which is discal, deeply excavated in the middle ; a spot of the same 

 colour at the end of the cell ; secondaries with a feeble brassy tinge : 

 ■primaries below shining brown, fringe grey; secondaries sordid 

 white, speckled with brown ; body below pale brown ; legs white 

 internally. Expanse of wings 7 lines. 



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



133. CEcophora parca, n. sp. 



Primaries pale shining straw-yellow, fringe white ; secondaries 

 silvery white ; thorax yellow, abdomen white : primaries below 

 shining whity-brown ; secondaries silvery white ; body below white. 

 Expanse of wings 8 lines. 



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



Allied to (E. apertella. 



Psecadia teras of Felder is (Ecophora picarella of Walker. 



134. Tachyptilia atychioides, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 14.) 



Primaries above purplish brown ; discoidai cell white, crossed by 

 a large central subquadrate bl.ick spot, terminated by a smaller 

 black spot ; a small white spot beyond the cell, and a discal arched 

 white line ; apex bronzy brown ; fringe brown, whitish towards 

 apex ; secondaries coppery brown, two sordid whitish longitudinal 

 streaks, one within the cell, the other on iuterno-mediau area ; costa 



