Muyriox.—On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 97 
Otira Gorge, Castle Hill, Lake Guyon, and Lake Wakatipu, in January 
and February, from 1,500 to 8,000 feet ; always on bare shingle, usually in 
the bed of a mountain stream, but sometimes also in a road-way, flying a 
short distance close to the ground and quickly settling again; common 
where it occurs, 
99. Scop. tetracycla, n. sp. 
Female.—25 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey, densely irrorated with 
white; palpi 8, basal joint white. Antenne grey. Abdomen pale grey, 
suffused with pale ochreous towards base. Legs white irrorated with 
fuscous, tibi: and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. Forewings very elon- 
gate, somewhat triangular, costa straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin straight, 
slightly oblique ; ochreous-grey, densely irrorated with whitish ; lines 
obsolete; orbicular and claviform both round, whitish, black-margined ; 
reniform 8-shaped, unusually oblique, whitish, obscurely black-margined : 
cilia ochreous-grey mixed with whitish, with an obscure darker line. Hind- 
wings 12, pale fuscous-grey, hindmargin suffusedly darker; cilia whitish, 
with a fuscous line. ; 
Characterized by the obsolescence of the usual lines, whilst the spots 
are all distinctly indicated, round, dark-margined. 
Christchurch and Lake Coleridge, in March ; two specimens. 
40. Scop. indistinctalis, Walk. 
(Hypochaleia indistinctalis, Walk., 48; Scoparia rakaiensis, Knaggs, Ent. Mo. Mag., iv., 80.) 
Male, female.—28-25 mm. Head and thorax white, densely irrorated 
with dark grey. Palpi 8, dark grey mixed with white, basal joint white. 
Antenne dark grey, obscurely annulated with white; ciliations $. Abdo- 
men whitish-ochreous, suffused with grey. Legs white, irrorated with 
dark fuscous, tibia and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. Forewings very 
elongate, tolerably triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, hind- 
margin slightly sinuate, rather oblique; white, very finely irrorated with 
blackish or dark fuscous; indications of a white line before first line ; first 
line indistinct, white, posteriorly blackish-margined, rectangularly bent 
above middle, near inner margin turned more obliquely outwards ; orbicular 
obliquely oval, hardly indicated except by two or three blackish marginal 
dots ; claviform small, oval, blackish-margined ; reniform 8-shaped, oblique, 
bbsinsly blackish-margined ; second line white, tolerably distinct, ob- 
scurely dark-margined ; terminal space suffused with blackish towards anal 
angle; subterminal line broad, cloudy, whitish, interrupted, both portions 
touching second line ; a row of blackish dots on veins before hindmargin : 
cilia whitish, with ia blackish-grey lines. Hindwings 13, pale whitish- 
ochreous, suffused with light greyish ; lunule and postmedian line obscurely 
darker; a moderately broad suffused dark fuscous hindmarginal band ; cilia 
white, with a dark grey line. 
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