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elongate, triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin 
oblique, faintly sinuate; white, mixed with grey, and coarsely irrorated 
with black; a thick interrupted obscure blackish streak from base of costa ; 
first line white, obseure, somewhat curved, Sharply indented, posteriorly 
blackish-margined ; orbicular round, whitish, blackish-margined ; elaviform 
roundish, moderate or large, blackish, often suffused, tolerably detached; 
reniform 8-shaped, white, blackish-margined, connected with a small 
blackish triangular spot on costa; second line white, tolerably distinct, 
anteriorly dark-margined; terminal space wholly dark, except moderate 
tolerably defined subterminal line, entire or interrupted, touching second 
line in middle; a hindmarginal row of white dots: cilia whitish, obscurely 
barred with grey, with an interrupted blackish and posterior grey line. 
Hindwings 14, pale whitish-grey, slightly ochreous-tinged, in female rather 
greyer, postmedian line and hindmargin obscurely darker grey; cilia 
whitish, with a grey line spotted with darker. 
A dull, obscure-looking fpecies, but with the reniform very clearly 
defined, 
Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurch, Nelson, Otira River, Dunedin, and 
Lake Wakatipu; common in forest, in December, January, March, and 
Apri, Near Lake Wakatipu I took one specimen at an elevation of 4,000 
feet. 
16. Scop. chlamydota, n. sp. 
Male, female.—18—-14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-ochreous 
suffused with black; palpi 2. Antennm greyish-ochreous ; ciliations 4. 
Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs ochreous-white, tibie and tarsi banded 
with dark fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa slightly arched, apex 
rounded, hindmargin ‘straight, oblique; ochreous-whitish; basal half, 
bounded by a line parallel to hindmargin, suffused with blackish, except on 
an oval ochreous spot near middle of base ; a moderately broad fascia-like 
reddish-ochreous suffusion rather beyond and parallel to posterior edge of 
blackish patch; an irregular reddish-ochreous suffusion towards middle of 
hindmargin; a rather small triangular blackish spot on costa before apex, 
and some blackish scales on anal angle: cilia ochreous-whitish, mixed 
with reddish ochreous beneath and blackish above apex. Hindwings 12, 
whitish ; postmedian line and apical suffusion faintly grey ; cilia whitish. 
A peculiar and very distinet species, 
Arthur's Pass (3,000 feet), in January; three specimens. 
l7. Scop. minusculalis, Walk. 
(Scoparia minusculalis, Walk., Suppl., 1503.) 
Male, female.—17-19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-fuscous, 
mixed with whitish-ochreous and dark fuscous ; palpi 2}, basal joint white. 
