Meyricr.—On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 69 
As the descriptions of Walker, Knaggs, and Butler are hardly in any 
instance sufficiently precise for determination, I may add that the species of 
Walker and Butler have been identified from the types, and those of Knaggs 
from types preserved by Mr. R. W. Fereday. 
SCOPARIADJE. 
Labial palpi, with hairs of second joint produced in front benenth. 
Maxillary palpi large, triangularly scaled, porrected, not resting on labial 
palpi. Forewings with 7 and 10 separate from 9,8 and 9 stalked. Hindwings 
with 4 and 5 from a point or stalked (except in Nyctarcha); lower median 
without basal pectination (except in Helipsiodes and Nyctarcha). Genital 
uncus of male generally well developed. 
Distinguished from all the other families of the Pyralidina by the 
character of the maxillary palpi, which are large, porrected, triangularly 
dilated, and obliquely truncate, standing out apart from the labial palpi; 
differing also from the Crambide (which some species closely approach in 
type) in the absence of the basal pectination on the lower median vein of 
the hindwings (with the exceptions noted above), from the Hotydid« in the 
development of the genital uncus of the male, and from the P Vir, by 
the separation of vein 7 of the forewings from the stalk of 8 and 9. 
The following tabulation ineludes all the five nisu genera, of 
which only three are represented in New Zealand. 
A. Lower median with basal pectination. 
1. Vein 1b of hindwings with well-defined pam "s .. Ayctarcha. 
» without 5 Af i k .. Eclipsiodes. 
B. ea SEP naked. 
1, Discal area of hindwings above lower median with long hairs. 
a. Antenne of male moderately ciliated — .. i5 bs .. Xeroscopa. 
b. no. hardly ROE ciliated .. i. .. Jetraprosopus. 
2. Bla area of hindwings bipes ain «a s .. Scoparia. 
dae os 
Forehead vertical. Pers present. Tongue well developed. Antenne 
short, less than 2 of forewings, in male stout, filiform, evenly ciliated (1-1) 
above pubescent (N. atra) or rough-scaled. Labial palpi moderate, 
straight, porrected, second joint with dense projecting scales beneath, 
terminal joint exposed, thick, somewhat expanded towards apex, and 
obliquely truncate. Maxillary palpi nearly as long as labial, terminally 
expanded, truncate. Posterior tibie with outer spurs half inner; legs 
short, Abdomen short, stout.  Forewings with vein 11 moderately 
oblique. Hindwings somewhat broader than forewings; 8, 4, 5 approxi- 
mated at base; lower median and 1b each with a strong pectination 
towards base, surface otherwise without hairs. 
