Mryrick.—On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. gi 
Very distinct through the combination of the dark fuscous blotches and 
white median streak. It has not the slightest affinity to Hypochalcia, which 
belongs to another family. eri 
Taken commonly by Mr. R. W. Fereday on Mount Hutt in January. 
Butler's note would give the erroneous idea that the’ species was generally 
common. His figure is not good. 
8. Cr. ramosellus, Dbld. 
(Crambus ramosellus, Dbld., Dieff. New Zeal., Vol. IL, 988; Crambus rangona, Feld., Reise 
der Novara, Pl. CXXXVII., 25.) 
Male, female.—23-27 mm. Head white, with an ochreous-brown spot 
behind eye. Maxillary palpi white, at base ochreous-brown. Labial palpi 
long, white, externally and towards apex beneath ochreous-brown. Antenne 
dark fuscous. Thorax brownish-ochreous, with a broad central longitudinal 
white stripe. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous, anterior 
and middle pair brownish-tinged. Forewings elongate, moderately broad, 
in female rather narrower, costa moderately arched, apex acute, hind 
margin strongly sinuate, rather strongly oblique; pale brownish-ochreous, 
more ochreous-brown towards base; a very slender white line immediately 
beneath costa from base to middle, sometimes obsolete; an ill-defined 
white central longitudinal streak from base to hindmargin, attenuated 
towards base, lower margin indented beyond middle, basal two-thirds 
margined beneath by a suffused dark fuscous streak, upper margin often 
suffused into ground-colour; between this streak and costa on posterior half 
of wing the veins are suffusedly marked with white, and sometimes whole 
costal half of wing suffused with white except margins; a broad ill-defined 
white or whitish suffusion along inner margin; in female sometimes whole 
wing suffused with whitish, except the dark fuscous submedian streak ; two 
transverse series of dark fuscous dots, acutely angulated outwards above 
middle, intersecting median streak, often obsolete, first from middle of costa 
to below middle of median streak, not reaching inner margin, second from 
costa at 3 to before anal angle, rather sinuate beneath; a hindmarginal 
row of dark fuscous dots: cilia whitish-grey, slightly shining, with a darker 
ochreous-grey line near base. Hindwings grey-whitish or whitish-grey, 
towards hindmargin and especially apex darker grey; cilia whitish or 
whitish-ochreous, with a very faint darker line near base. 
The dark fuscous submedian streak, together with the ochreous or 
whitish ground-colour, sufficiently distinguishes this species from all others; 
it, however, varies considerably in depth of colouring, in the extent of the 
whitish suffusion, and the distinctness of the transverse series of dots. In 
general northern specimens seem to be smaller, darker, and more distinctly 
marked than southern. 
