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Allied to S. submarginalis, but much lighter and greyer, with the dark 
suffusion confined to the anal angle, and always separable by the quite 
different form of the rather sharply angulated first line. 
Wellington, Christchurch, and Lake Wakatipu (1,000 feet), from 
December to February, on rocks and fences ; rather common. 
41. Scop. chalicodes, n. sp. 
Male, female.—154-164 mm. Head and thorax whitish irrorated with 
grey, with a short black stripe on each side of thorax from anterior margin. 
Palpi 22, dark fuscous, apex and basal joint white. Antenne whitish-grey, 
ciliations 2. Abdomen grey-whitish. Legs white, tibie and tarsi banded 
with dark fuscous. Forewings very elongate-triangular, narrow, costa 
almost straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; light 
ochreous-grey, densely irrorated with white ; veins irregularly and partially 
lined with blackish; first line faintly perceptible, curved; orbicular 
moderate, pale greyish-ochreous, obscurely dark-margined, touching first 
line ; claviform small, cloudy, dark fuscous, touching first line ; reniform 
obscurely 8-shaped, pale greyish-ochreous, partially dark-margined; all 
spots sometimes very obscure; a small blackish spot on costa beyond 
middle ; second line very obscure, indented beneath costa, angulated above 
middle ; terminal space darker, subterminal line cloudy, whitish, touching 
second line, very obscure beneath: cilia whitish, with dark fuscous anterior 
and grey posterior line. Hindwings 14, grey-whitish, apex hardly darker ; 
cilia white, with a faint grey line. 
Characterized by the comparatively small size, narrow pale forewings, 
dark veins, and wholly whitish hindwings. 
Wanganui, Napier, Christchurch, and Mount Hutt, from January to 
March ; six specimens. 
42. Scop. leptalea, n. sp. 
Male, fenale,.—16—-19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax greyish-ochreous 
or grey, mixed with whitish ; palpi 8, basal joint white. Antenne grey, in 
male stout, dentate, ciliations 2. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, suffused with 
pale grey. Legs white, irrorated with dark fuscous, tibi: and tarsi banded ` 
with dark fuseous. Forewings very elongate, narrow but variable, some- 
what triangular, eosta slightly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely 
rounded; whitish-ochreous or ochreous-grey, suffusedly irrorated with dark. 
fuscous or black, and densely irrorated with whitish ; markings variable in 
distinetness, sometimes almost wholly obsolete; first line white, very 
oblique, almost straight, indented above middle, posteriorly dark-margined ; 
orbicular somewhat annular, almost wholly obsolete; clayiform dot-like, 
blackish, usually distinct; reniform 8-shaped, oblique, obscurely dark- 
margined, indistinct; second line white, dark-margined; terminal space 
