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margin; costa black from base to beyond middle, at first very narrowly, 
but shortly dilating to form a triangular sharply-defined patch, of which 
apex is in middle of disc ; claviform dot-like, black, or sometimes obsolete ; 
reniform 8-shaped, obscurely outlined with blackish ; second line not paler, 
but distinctly dark-margined, somewhat bent but hardly sinuate ; a row of 
black dots immediately before hindmargin; cilia grey-whitish, with a grey 
basalline. Hindwings 11, in male whitish, in female very pale whitish- 
grey ; postmedian line and hindmargin very faintly greyer ; cilia whitish, 
with a faint grey line. 
Very distinct by the peculiar black costal marking.  Felder's figure is 
very coarse, but indicates this correctly. 
Makatoku and Dunedin, amongst forest, in March ; five specimens. 
82. Scop. melanagis, n. sp. 
Male, female.—22-23 mm. Head and thorax ochreous mixed with 
whitish, shoulders suffused with dark fuscous. Palpi 24, dark fuscous, apex 
whitish, basal joint white. Antenne grey. Abdomen ochreous-grey- 
whitish. Legs white irrorated with dark fuscous, tibie and tarsi banded 
with dark fuscous. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa slightly arched, 
apex rounded, hindmargin slightly sinuate, oblique; pale fuscous, very 
densely irrorated with black; a whitish streak from base to inner margin 
at +, beneath which the black suffusion is obsolete ; an obscure dentate 
irregular whitish transverse line a little before first line, between which and 
first line the ground colour is mixed with pale yellow ; first line slender, 
white, almost straight, oblique, not reaching inner margin, but continued 
near and parallel to it to meet second line, which is also narrow, sharply 
defined, and does not reach inner margin; réniform somewhat 8-shaped, 
narrow, clear white ; space included between a straight line passing through 
anterior edge of reniform and blackish margin of second line suffused with 
white ; inner margin from before first line to anal angle suffused with pale 
yellow; veins in terminal space more or less indicated with yellowish ; 
subterminal line cloudy whitish, rather broad, obscurely interrupted, hardly 
touching second line; a waved white hindmarginal line: cilia whitish, 
basal third barred with dark grey, with a grey posterior line. Hindwings 
1}, very pale whitish-grey, faintly ochreous-tinged ; postmedian line and 
hindmargin obscurely darker grey ; cilia white, with a grey line. 
The blackish suffusion appears to form a very large blotch on costa 
beyond first line, nearly reaching to inner margin; this distinguishes the 
species from all others. 
Arthur's Pass (1,700 to 2,600 feet) and Lake Wakatipu (4,200 feet), 
frequenting rocks in sheltered situations or amongst bush, in December and 
January; rather common. 
