Meyricx.—On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 63 
haired, sometimes tufted beneath. Forewings with strong costal fold in 
male. Hindwings broader than forewings. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 
and 8 separate, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 8 veins (or 7 by coinci- 
dence of 8 and 4), 8 and 4 long-stalked or coincident, 5 closely approxi- 
mated at base to 4, 6 and 7 separate. 
A characteristic Australian genus; both the New Zealand species are 
found in Australia, whence it seems probable they may have been intro- 
duced. 
88. . Streps. ejectana, Walk. 
(Sciaphila ejectana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 350, (Strepsiceros) Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. 
.W., 1881, 681; ? Sciaphila absconditana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 851; Sciaphila 
servilisana, ibid., 356 ; Sciaphila saxana, ibid., 357 ; Conchylis lipuiferalts, ibid., 363.) 
Minor, alis ant. griseis, albido-sparsis, vitta longitudinali post medium 
deflexa, trianguloque marginis postici saturatioribus, nigro ochreoque 
mixtis; post. saturate griseis. 
Male, female,—191-15 mm. Head and thorax grey mixed with ashy- 
whitish, shoulders ochreous-tinged. Antenne of male notched at 4+ from 
basal joint. Forewings moderate, slightly dilated posteriorly, costa gently 
arched, hindmargin nearly straight, oblique; light-grey, more or less 
sprinkled irregularly with whitish, and mixed with darker grey, disc in 
female sometimes longitudinally whitish ; costa strigulated with blackish ; 
in male a tuft of raised scales on submedian fold before middle ; a eloudy 
irregular somewhat sinuate broad dark fuscous longitudinal streak in dise, 
mixed with ochreous and blackish, extending from near base to beyond 
middle, thence bent downwards to inner margin before anal angle ; an ill- 
defined triangular dark fuscous blotch on upper half of hindmargin, some- 
times ochreous-tinged, its apex extending inwards to dise at 2, generally 
containing two or three longitudinal black streaks ; in male these markings 
are lighter, less defined, and more or less obscured by a general grey 
mottling : cilia grey, mixed with whitish points, irregularly and indistinctly 
barred with blackish. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey, with a dark-grey 
line near base ; veins 8 and 4 long-stalked. 
Easily known from the following by the broader wings, only partial 
coincidence of veins 3 and 4, and greater remoteness of the antennal notch 
from the basal joint; the markings are usually very different, but both 
species vary so much, and are sometimes so obscurely marked, that the 
structural points furnish the readiest means of distinction. 
Larva active, cylindrical; dull green, more yellowish-tinged on sides 
and towards extremities, spots paler; head black; second segment, or 
posterior half only, black. Feeds in September in spun-together shoots, or 
in a loose tubular web amongst leaves, of Leptospermum scoparium; in 
Australia on other Myrtaceae. 
