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moderate, with strong pecten. Palpi moderately long, second joint exceed- 
ing base of antenne, clothed with appressed scales, rough and somewhat 
furrowed beneath, terminal joint shorter than second, slender, recurved. 
Thorax smooth.  Forewings elongate, apex rounded, hindmargin very 
obliquely rounded, surface with tufts of scales; in female abbreviated, 
broadly lanceolate. Hindwings as broad as forewings, elongate-ovate, hind- 
margin rounded, cilia 2; in female much abbreviated, lanceolate or almost 
obsolete. Abdomen moderate. Posterior tibise clothed with loose hairs 
above. Forewings with vein 7 to apex, 2 from hardly before angle of cell. 
Hindwings normal. 
Allied to Fulechria, differing in the long whorled ciliations of the 
antenne, the tufts of scales on the surface of forewings, and the abbreviated 
wings of the female. This and the following genus are closely allied, and 
are apparently descendants of a single progenitor, both being confined to 
New Zealand ; these two genera stand in exactly the same mutual relation 
as Hoplitica and Proteodes. 
5. Atom. ommatias, n. sp. 
Media, alis ant. fuscis, saturatiori-nebulosis, signis disci tribus arcuatis 
lineaque postica transversa obscuris saturatioribus : post. albido-griseis. 
Male.—21-24 mm.; female.—18-18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax pale 
fuscous, more or less suffused with dark fuscous. Antenne pale fuscous, 
slenderly annulated with dark fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs 
ochreous-whitish, tarsal joints suffused with dark fuscous towards base. 
Forewings elongate, somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched, 
apex round-pointed, hindmargin very obliquely rounded; light fuscous, 
irregularly or wholly suffused with dark fuscous; a large tuft of raised 
scales almost at base, and two or three much smaller in disc ; an obscurely 
indicated pale dot in dise before 4, partially surrounded by a dark ring, and 
a similar one on fold obliquely beyond it; a dark fuscous crescentic spot in 
dise slightly beyond middle, extremities directed downwards, anteriorly and 
posteriorly distinctly margined with paler; aslender dark fuscous transverse 
line from 4 of costa obliquely outwards, twice angulated above middle, 
thence running to $ of inner margin, often obsolete: cilia pale fuscous, 
mixed with dark fuscous, with a row of cloudy dark fuscous spots. Hind- 
Wings whitish-grey or grey, with a darker grey discal spot; cilia grey- 
whitish, with one or two cloudy dark grey lines. 
Considerably broader - winged, and generally darker, than Brach. 
sordida. : 
An early spring species, occurring tolerably commonly at rest on tree- 
trunks and fences round Christchurch, in August and September; the 
female is quite incapable of flight. 
