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longitudinally with dark fuscous; a blackish interrupted hindmarginal line : 
cilia pale ochreous or reddish-ochreous, mixed with blackish round apex, 
often with a blackish line towards base, towards anal angle whitish-tinged. 
Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey, with a darker basal line. 
A very variable species, in size, colour, and irregular intensity of mark- 
ings, in some of its forms closely approaching the Australian C. chimerinana, 
eyr. 
Probably everywhere abundant ; occurs at Hamilton, Wellington, Christ- 
church, Akaroa, and Dunedin, either in bush, on open grassy places, or on 
coast sandhills, from November to April. I have also found worn speci- 
mens in August, probably hybernated. 
8. Pyreortis, Meyr. 
Thorax crested. Antenne in male ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected, 
second joint triangularly scaled. Forewings in male with strong costal 
fold. Hindwings broader than forewings. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 and 
8 stalked, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 8 veins, 8 and 4 separate at 
origin, 5 closely approximated to 4 at base, 6 and 7 stalked. 
Separated from Capua by the distinct origin of veins 8 and 4 of the 
hindwings, and from Adoxophyes by the thoracic crest. There are two New 
Zealand species, besides which there is only one other known, from Australia. 
3. Pyrg. plagiatana, Walk. 
(Conchylis plagiatana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 370, (Pyrgotis) Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., 1881, 441; Conchylis recusana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 371 ; Grapholitha 
punana, Feld., Reis. Nov., pl. CXXXVII, 43; ? G. zylinana, ibid., 44.) 
Minor, alis ant. ochreo-albidis, ochreo-strigulatis, fascia angusta angu- 
lata prope basim, altera obliqua ante medium, tertia a costa ante apicem 
in alteram inferius percurrente, maculaque marginis postici inferiori ochreo- 
fuscis, triangulo costæ medio incluso pallidiore ; post. albidis, apice leviter 
ochreo. 
— Male, female.—16-19 mm, Head and thorax whitish-ochreous. Fore- 
wings triangular, costa slightly arched, apex produced, hindmargin sinuate, 
oblique ; whitish, more or less suffused with pale ochreous-yellowish, and 
coarsely strigulated with darker ochreous ; markings ochreous-fuscous or 
dark fuscous, irregularly variable in intensity ; a sharply angulated fascia 
near base, upper half often nearly obsolete ; inner margin sometimes 
suffused with dark fuscous ; central fascia straight, narrow, from 4 of costa 
to $ of inner margin ; an inwardly oblique narrow streak from costa before 
apex, dilated and enclosing a pale spot on costa, uniting with central fascia 
near inner margin, so as to enclose a large pale costal triangle, sometimes 
white; a large irregular roundish blotch on lower half of hindmargin, 
sometimes confiuent above with the streak from costa; a subapical streak 
