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small ochreous-tinged plate. Feeds in a light silken tube amongst spun- 
together leaves of Genista in garden hedges. Pupa in a thin firm white 
silken cocoon in same place. Probably the larva is polyphagous, the food- 
plant not being native. 
Occurs commonly at Christchurch, Nelson, Dunedin, Wellington, and 
Auckland, in January, and again in March and April; during the latter 
months I also found the larve feeding, from which imagos emerged in 
April. The species flies abundantly over its food-plant for a short time 
about sunset, and I have also taken it at light. It is to be regretted that I 
should have fallen into the error of adding to the already too numerous 
synonyms of the species, misled by its extreme variability. I was also 
wrong in imagining the existence of a thoracic crest, often a difficult char- 
acter to observe; the species is therefore not referable to Pyrgotis. 
5. PRosELENA, Meyr. 
Thorax smooth. Antenne in male shortly ciliated. Palpi moderate, 
porrected, second joint triangularly scaled. Forewings in male with costa 
simple. Hindwings broader than forewings. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 
and 8 separate, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 8 veins, 8 and 4 sepa- 
rate at origin, 5 parallel or approximated at base to 4, 6 and 7 stalked. 
Differs from the preceding genera by the separation of veins 7 and 8 of 
the forewings, from Harmologa by the absence of the costal fold, from 
Tortrix by the separation of veins 8 and 4 of the hindwings. I have 
thought it best to widen the original definition of this genus, (founded on a 
single species), by not insisting on the parallelism of veins 3, 4, 5 of the 
hindwings; these differ much in relative direction, but the differences are 
probably incapable of definition, and insufficient for generic distinction. 
As thus established the genus includes two described Australian species, 
(I have a third unpublished), and three are now added to it from New 
Zealand, of which number one was formerly erroneously referred to Tortriz. 
These three species may be thus tabulated :— 
A. Forewings whitish-grey .. a Rx ES i. es .. 7. aspistana. 
B » ochreous. 
1. Forewings unicolorous .. m xa M i A .. 9. siriana. 
2. » with basal third much paler than remainder .. .. 8. hemionana. 
7. Pros. aspistana, n. sp. 
Parva, alis ant. albido-griseis, macula basali trianguloque coste magno 
castaneis, fusco-marginatis; post. griseis. 
Male.—18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-grey, somewhat 
mixed with fuscous (but damaged). Antenne whitish-grey (?). Abdomen 
‘whitish-grey. Legs whitish-grey, anterior and middle pair suffused with 
dark fuscous except at apex of joints. Forewings oblong, rather narrow, 
