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margined, forming a small blackish spot on costa; terminal Space grey, 
veins suffused with black; subterminal line cloudy, whitish, somewhat 
interrupted, not touching second line: cilia whitish, with two dark grey 
lines. Hindwings 13, very pale whitish-grey, lunule, postmedian line, and 
hindmargin hardly darker ; cilia whitish, with two grey lines. 
Of somewhat doubtful affinity ; recognizable by the rather broad distinct 
lines, dark suffusion towards costa, and clear white lower half of reniform. 
Bealey River, amongst forest (2,100 feet), in January ; one specimen. 
95. Scop. periphanes, n. sp. 
Male.—20 mm. Head and thorax whitish mixed with ochreous-grey, 
shoulders narrowly blackish. Palpi 8, dark fuscous mixed with whitish, 
basal joint white. Antenne grey-whitish; ciliations 4. Abdomen grey- 
whitish. Legs whitish, tibie and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. Fore- 
wings somewhat elongate, triangular, costa hardly arched, apex rounded, 
hindmargin sinuate, rather oblique; grey, slightly brownish-tinged ; a 
thick black very oblique streak from base of costa, not reaching inner 
margin, irregularly bifurcate, upper branch touching first line; first line 
distinct, rather strong, almost straight, oblique, white, posteriorly strongly 
and evenly black-margined ; spots all obsolete ; second line sharply defined, 
white, finely blackish-margined, preceded by a rather broad whitish space ; 
subterminal line distinct, white, interrupted above middle, apex of lower 
portion touching second line, the two triangular blotches enclosed between 
second and subterminal lines suffused with black, apex of upper blotch con- 
nected with middle of hindmargin by a blackish streak; a hindmarginal 
row of cloudy confluent black dots: cilia whitish, with two dark grey lines. 
Hindwings 14, very pale whitish-grey, postmedian line and hindmargin 
suffusedly darker grey ; cilia as in forewings. 
A sharply marked species, conspicuously distinct by the straight first 
line, and absence of all the discal spots. 
Lake Wakatipu, in January (Mr. R. W. Fereday); two specimens. 
96. Scop. diphtheralis, Walk. 
(Scoparia diphtheralis, Walk., Suppl., 1501.) 
Male, female.—23-26 mm. Head pale ochreous, face black. Palpi 24, 
black, mixed with white, basal joint white. Antenne black, beneath 
ochreous-whitish. Thorax white, anterior half, a square central spot, and 
posterior extremity suffused with black. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, 
slightly irrorated with grey, segmental margins more ochreous towards 
base. Legs white, thinly sprinkled with black, tibie and tarsi banded with 
black. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa hardly arched, apex rounded, 
indmargin sinuate, slightly oblique; white, irregularly irrorated with black 
scales which are ochreous at their base; a triangular blackish spot on costa 
