Mryricxk.—On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 15 
Male, female.—14-17 mm. Head, palpi, and antenne dark fuscous. 
Thorax white, anterior margin dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Legs 
dark fuscous, apex of tarsal joints obscurely pale. Forewings elongate, 
costa arched towards base and apex, rest nearly straight, apex round- 
pointed, hindmargin very obliquely rounded; dark fuscous; a large white 
basal patch, slightly ochreous-tinged, outer edge slightly irregular, extend- 
ing from } of costa to before middle of inner margin; a small elongate 
blackish spot on base of costa; two large spots of raised ochreous-brown 
scales, partially black-margined, in disc before middle, and two smaller ones 
beyond middle; a small somewhat triangular inwardly oblique white spot 
on costa at 4, emitting from its apex a slender white outwards-angulated 
line to hindmargin above anal angle, anteriorly blackish- margined : cilia 
fuscous-grey, with an obscure darker line. Hindwings fuscous-grey, darker 
towards apex; cilia fuscous-grey, with an obscure darker line. 
Nearly allied to the following, but immediately known by the consider- 
ably larger white basal patch, and differing also in the unevenly arched 
costa and deeper colouring, with the clear white thorax. 
Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, in January ; eight specimens. 
10. Trach. conspicuella, Walk. 
(Gelechia conspicuella, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 651; Gelechia taongella, Feld., Reis. Nov., 
PI. CXL., 45.) 
Minor, alis ant. fuscis, macula ad basim transversa angustiori alteraque 
parva coste postica nebulosa lineam transversam emittente canis; post. 
griseis. 
Male, female.—18-16} mm. Head, palpi, and antenne fuscous. Thorax 
fuscous, posteriorly mixed with white. Abdomen pale fuscous. Legs dark 
fuscous, apex of tarsal joints pale. Forewings elongate, costa moderately 
arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; fuscous, 
suffused with dark fuscous towards costa, more ochreous-tinged towards 
inner margin ; an irregularly triangular white patch towards base, its base 
resting on basal hid of inner margin, its apex touching costa at +; a very 
large tuft of raised blackish and fuscous scales on fold at y, a smaller one 
above it, and two others in disc beyond middle ; a small suffused white spot 
on costa at 2, emitting a cloudy outwards-angulated white line to anal angle, 
anteriorly blackish-margined: cilia grey, with two obscure dark fuscous 
. lines. Hindwings grey; cilia pale grey. 
.. Differs from T. euryleucota by the much smaller and differently shaped 
| white basal patch, the lighter and more confused colouring, the suffusion of 
the white costal spot, and the lighter hindwings. 
Wellington and Christchurch, in December and January ; common at 
rest on fences. 
