Mzvnick.—On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 27 
11. Cr. vittellus, Dbld. 
(Crambus vittellus, Dbld., Dieff. New Zeal., Vol. IL, 289; Crambus nexalis, Walk., Brit. 
Mus. Cat., 178; Crambus transcissalis, ibid., 178 ; Crambus sublicellus, Z., Mon. Cr., 
31; Crambus bisectellus, ibid., 82; Crambus incrassatellus, ibid., 32 ; Crambus 
vapidus, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 399.) 
Male, female.—20-25 mm. Head white, a spot on face and posterior 
margins of eyes very pale greyish-ochreous, Maxillary palpi white, towards 
base externally greyish-ochreous. Labial palpi moderately long, white, 
externally greyish-ochreous or brownish-ochreous. Antenne dark fuscous. 
T'horax white, more or less ochreous on sides. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, 
more ochreous towards base. Legs whitish, beneath suffused with dark 
fuscous.  Forewings moderate, in female rather narrow, costa gently 
arched, apex rounded-acute, hindmargin nearly straight or very slightly 
sinuate, moderately oblique ; groyish-ochreous or brown, darkest on costal 
half; sometimes irrorated with whitish scales towards inner margin and 
posterior half of costa ; often a more or less distinct suffused white streak 
extending along more or less of posterior half of costa, broadest at $; & 
moderate nearly straight central longitudinal white streak, rather attenuated 
at base, extending to hindmargin, sometimes attenuated posteriorly, 
margins often irregular on posterior half, sometimes suffusedly margined 
with dark fuscous on basal half beneath and on posterior half above, often 
irregularly interrupted by the transverse lines ; extremity of median streak 
produced upwards into a narrow white projection along hindmargin nearly 
to apex; sometimes two transverse darker lines or series of spots, more or 
less distinctly cutting median streak, first from middle of costa to 4 of 
inner margin, very acutely angulated above streak, second from 4 of costa 
to before anal angle, less acutely angulated ; inner margin sometimes white 
towards base; three or four tolerably distine& blaek dots on hindmargin 
below middle ; a tolerably distinct slender dark fuseous hindmarginal line: 
cilia shining-grey or whitish-grey, with a somewhat darker basal line, three 
or four slender white bars on upper half, sometimes confluent at base, and 
another above anal angle. Hindwings whitish-fuscous-grey, paler towards 
base, darker at apex ; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish. 
This very common and very variable species, which may be regarded as 
the type of the New Zealand representatives of the genus, may in all its 
forms be sufficiently well distinguished from those with which it is most 
likely to be confused, by the white bars of the cilia, and the black hind 
marginal dots below median streak. It most approaches C. dicrenellus and 
C. fleauosellus, differing further from the former in the white costal suffusion 
not extending towards base, and from the latter in the central position of 
the white streak, and the paler costal area. 
