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5. Bracuysara, Meyr. 
Head smooth, sidetufts small, appressed. Antenne in male moderate, 
with fine long ciliations (5), in whorls of eight at apex of joints, basal joint 
moderate, with strong pecten. Palpi short, second joint not nearly reaching 
base of antenne, with short loose rough hairs beneath somewhat projecting 
anteriorly, terminal joint short, slender, curved. Thorax smooth. Fore- 
wings elongate, apex rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded. Hind- 
wings as broad as forewings, elongate-ovate, hindmargin very faintly 
sinuate, cilia 1. Abdomen moderate. Posterior tibie clothed with loose 
hairs above. Forewings with vein 7 to apex, 2 from hardly before angle of 
cell. Hindwings normal. 
Closely allied to the preceding genus, but differing in the structure of 
the palpi, and the smooth surface of forewings. The female is unknown to 
me, but I should not be surprised to find that it had abbreviated wings, as 
in Atomotricha. 
6. Brach. sordida, Butl. 
(Ecophora sordida, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 405.) 
Media, alis ant. angustis, dilute fuscis, vitta media nigricante interdum 
obsoleta, signis disei duobus arcuatis lineaque postiea transversa obscuris 
saturatioribus; post. albidis. 
Male.—20-21 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax light fuscous, somewhat 
mixed with darker. Antenne light fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. 
Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior pair obscurely suffused with fuscous. Fore- 
wings elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched, distinctly sinuate in middle, 
apex round-pointed, hindmargin extremely oblique, slightly rounded ; light 
fuscous, sometimes slightly mixed with darker; a straight narrow tolerably 
well-defined blackish longitudinal streak somewhat above middle from base 
nearly to apex, tending to be very slightly interrupted at $ and 3, rather 
suffused beneath towards apex and near base, sometimes entirely obsolete ; 
when obsolete, there are sometimes visible an arched fuscous mark before 1 
and another just beyond middle, which are usually obscured by the streak ; 
a slender very obscure fuscous transverse line from $ of costa to 2 of inner 
margin, twice angulated above middle, usually terminating the longitudinal 
streak, often obsolete : cilia light fuscous, with a cloudy blackish interrupted 
basal line. Hindwings whitish, slightly suffused with ochreous-grey towards 
| costa; cilia whitish, with faint cloudy grey basal and apical lines. 
Variable in respect of the central streak, but easily known at once from 
the preceding species by the narrower wings, apart from generic differences. 
Butler’s description would do tolerably for either, but I have seen a speci- 
men of this species identified by Butler himself. : 
Mr. R. W. Fereday formerly met with this species abundantly in the 
Rakaia district. di 
