106 Transactions, — Zoology. 
Easily recognized by the dark veins and white discal dot, without other 
marking. 
Mount Hutt and Castle Hill (2,500 feet), on grassy slopes, in January ; 
six specimens. 
56. Scop. deltophora, n. sp. 
Male.—21-23 mm.; female.—16 mm. Head and thorax light ochre- 
ous-grey, sides of head whitish. Palpi 3}, ochreous-grey, white above and 
on basal joint. Antenne grey; ciliations 1. Abdomen grey-whitish. 
Legs grey-whitish, anterior pair grey. Forewings elongate, triangular; 
costa almost straight, apex round-pointed, hindmargin somewhat sinuate, 
oblique; light greyish-ochreous, suffusedly irrorated with whitish, espe- 
cially towards costa; sometimes a few scattered black scales; first line 
obsolete; reniform represented by a minutely trifurcate black dot, con- 
nected with a short black longitudinal line in middle of dise ; second line 
obscurely whitish, not dark-margined, somewhat bowed ; veins posteriorly 
obseurely darker; a hindmarginal row of black dots: cilia whitish, 
with two light ochreous-grey lines.  Hindwings 12, grey-whitish; cilia 
white. 
Allied to S. paltomacha ; characterized by the short black discal line, and 
posterior black dot. 
Arthur's Pass, on grassy slopes at from 8,000 to 4,200 feet, in January ; 
common, 
57. Scop. sabulosella, Walk. 
: (Crambus sabulosellus, Walk., 178.) 
Male, female.—20-22 mm. Head, palpi, antennz, and thorax ochreous- 
fuscous, thorax sometimes mixed with dark fuscous ; palpi 83, basal joint 
white; antennal ciliations 3. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs whitish- 
ochreous, anterior and middle pair somewhat darker. Forewings very 
elongate, triangular, costa almost straight, apex round-pointed, hindmargin 
sinuate, oblique; pale greyish-ochreous, irrorated with white along costa 
and on dorsal half, sometimes with scattered black scales; veins sometimes 
obscurely lined with blackish, in female sometimes strongly and suffusedly ; 
a suffused blackish streak from base along: submedian fold to middle; 
orbicular dot-like, black, reniform also very small, subquadrate, black, often 
connected together by a cloudy dark fuscous streak; a row of distinct black 
dots before hindmargin: cilia ochreous-whitish, with two light-grey lines. 
Hindwings 1}, grey-whitish, ochreous-tinged, in female becoming greyer 
posteriorly ; cilia white. 
Somewhat variable in respect of the dark suffusion, but always distin- 
guishable by the pale ochreous ground-colour, two black discal dots, and 
suffused indistinct basal streak, 
