Mryricx.—On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 48 
slightly dilated posteriorly, costa moderately arched near base, thence 
nearly straight, somewhat sinuate beyond middle, hindmargin rather 
strongly oblique, nearly straight, very slightly sinuate ; whitish-grey, with 
-some scattered spots of dark fuscous seales; basal patch reddish-brown, 
exterior edge sharply marked, broadly dark fuscous, from 1 of costa to $ of 
inner margin, irregular, hardly angulated ; a large reddish-brown triangular 
costal patch, extending on costa from $ to near apex, reaching rather more 
than half across wing, apex broken and partially suffused, anterior and 
posterior edges sharply marked, broadly margined with dark fuscous, costal 
edge marked with three small dark fuscous spots; a similar small dark 
fuscous spot on costa before apex: cilia grey-whitish, with a dark grey 
basal line. Hindwings grey, with a pencil of long whitish-yellowish hairs 
on eosta at base; cilia pale grey. 
Immediately known by the whitish-grey forewings, with reddish-brown 
basal and costal patches. 
T'wo specimens, in poor condition, taken by Mr. J. D. Enys, at Porter's 
Pass. 
8. Pros. hemionana, n. sp. 
Parva, alis ant. dilute ochreis, plusquam dimidio posteriore post-lineam 
obliquam fusco, antice saturatiore; post. griseis. 
Male.—124-134 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-ochreous ; palpi 
rather elongate, externally fuscous. Antenne whitish-ochreous, annulated 
with dark fuscous. Abdomen light grey. Legs grey-whitish, anterior and 
middle pair suffused with dark fuscous except at apex of joints. Forewings 
moderate, posteriorly somewhat dilated, costa rather strongly arched near 
base, thence nearly straight, hindmargin nearly straight, oblique; pale 
whitish-ochreous, with scattered obscure ochreous-fuscous strigule ; base 
indistinctly suffused with ochreous-brownish ; posterior 3, beyond a straight 
sharply-defined line from 3 of costa to slightly beyond middle of inner 
margin, fuscous, strigulated with dark reddish-fuscous, and becoming dark 
fuscous towards anterior edge, more broadly towards costa, and on a small 
very ill-defined costal spot towards apex: cilia whitish-ochreous or light 
brownish-ochreous, with a broad dark fuscous basal line. Hindwings 
grey ; cilia grey-whitish, with a darker basal line. 
Rendered conspicuous by the contrast of the pale basal and dark pos- 
terior areas. 
Six specimens taken by Mr. R. W. Fereday near Lake Guyon in March. 
9. Pros. siriana, Meyr. 
(Tortriz siriana, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1881, 521.) 
Parva, alis ant. M. ochreo-brunneis, fusco-sparsis, F. saturate ochreis, 
puneto disci nigro ; post. M. nigrescentibus, F. albidis. 
