Mzvntck.—On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 95 
at base, apex extended to form a smaller spot, but not quite reaching inner 
margin; inner margin beneath this whitish-ochreous; a broad cloudy white 
line near first line, more or less confluent with it above; first line broad, 
cloudy, white, oblique, hardly curved, rather irregular, posteriorly blackish- 
margined, forming a cloudy triangular blackish spot towards costa; a pale 
ochreous-yellowish streak along ‘submedian fold from basal spot to anal 
blotch; orbicular roundish, whitish-ochreous, broadly black-margined, 
detached ; claviform small, oblique, black, sometimes pale-centred, detached; 
reniform 8-shaped, whitish-ochreous, black-margined, connected with costa 
by a small blackish spot, between which and second line is a whitish 
suffusion ; space between orbicular and reniform, and between reniform and 
second line, clothed with peculiarly appressed brassy prismatic scales, 
appearing as though transparent; second line broad, white, blackish- 
margined ; terminal space wholly suffused with black; subterminal line 
broad, white, more or less pale ochreous-yellowish on veins, generally 
interrupted above middle, apex of lower portion touching second line; 
a hindmarginal row of white dots: cilia grey, with two darker lines, basal 
third slightly barred with whitish, tips whitish. Hindwings 14, whitish- 
ochreous, partially irrorated with grey; lunule, postmedian line, and a 
tolerably defined hindmarginal band rather dark grey; cilia ochreous- 
whitish, with two dark grey lines. 
A fine species, differing from all others by the peculiar prismatie spots 
preceding and following reniform. 
Hamilton, Palmerston, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch, and Otira 
Gorge, from December to March, usually near forest; common where it 
occurs, but I have never taken it except at lamps, and always females only ; 
I have seen one male, taken by Mr. R. W. Fereday, and perhaps sixty 
females, 
87. Scop. submarginalis, Walk. 
(Hypochalcia submarginalis, Walk., 48; Nephopteryz maoriella, ib., Suppl., 1720.) 
Male, female.—21-25 mm. Head and thorax whitish, mixed with pale 
ochreous, densely irrorated with grey or dark fuscous. Palpi 8, dark fuscous 
mixed with whitish, basal joint white. Antenne grey; ciliations 4. 
Abdomen ochreous-whitish suffused with grey, more ochreous towards base. 
Legs whitish irrorated with dark fuscous, tibie and tarsi banded with dark 
fuscous. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, 
hindmargin very faintly sinuate, rather oblique; ochreous or ochreous- 
brown, more or less densely irrorated with black, and sprinkled irregularly 
With whitish; a short obscure blackish line from base of costa; & cloudy 
whitish line near before and partially confluent with first line, sometimes 
obsolete; first line white, cloudy, posteriorly black-margined, somewhat 
