Meyricx.—On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 107 
Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Lake Wakatipu, and 
Invercargill, probably generally distributed, on dry grassy slopes in Decem- 
ber and January; very common. Butler has identified a Chilian species 
with this ; I cannot vouch for the identification. 
58. Scop. panopla, n. sp. 
.Male.—81 mm. ; female.—25 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous, 
mixed with whitish-ochreous, with a dark ochreous-fuscous stripe from eye 
‘along inner edge of patagia to extremity. Palpi 24-8, ochreous-fuscous, 
mixed with dark fuscous, above and on basal joint white. Antenna 
whitish-ochreous ; ciliations 4. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs light 
ochreous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa straight, apex rounded, 
hindmargin oblique, somewhat sinuate ; brownish-ochreous, suffusedly irror- 
ated with white on a broad streak along costa, a broad sinuate streak from 
middle of dise to hindmargin beneath apex, and less distinctly along inner 
margin ; a narrow black streak from base along submedian fold to middle ; 
a blackish slightly curved linear streak from above extremity of this to 
reniform, which is represented by a short oblique blackish mark ; veins 
between apex and anal angle posteriorly marked with blackish streaks, 
except on white suffusion, not reaching hindmargin except at apex ; a hind- 
marginal row of blackish dots: cilia whitish, with two fuscous lines. 
Hindwings 1$, grey-whitish, with a rather narrow hindmarginal band 
somewhat darker; cilia white. 
Separated from its allies by its large size, and somewhat curved 
irregular discal streak, which is not placed to form a continuation of 
the basal streak ; the female is more strongly and sharply marked than the 
male. 
Mount Hutt, in January; several specimens taken by Mr. R. W. 
Fereday. 
59. Scop. trivirgata, Feld. 
(Crambus trivirgatus, Feld., Reis. Nov., pl. exxxvii., 29.) 
Male, female.—16—-23 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, often 
becoming white above, with a blackish-fuscous stripe from eye along inner 
edge of patagia to extremity. Palpi 4, whitish-ochreous, mixed with dark 
fuscous, apex of maxillary and basal joint of labial white. Antenne dark 
grey; ciliations 3. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish. 
Forewings very elongate, triangular, in female sometimes very narrow, costa 
straight, apex round-pointed, hindmargin sinuate, oblique or very oblique; 
whitish-ochreous, veins obscurely lined with white; a moderate straight 
blackish-fuscous median streak from base to apex, interrupted by a very 
oblique narrow bar before middle, and more or less attenuated at 3; a 
blackish-fuscous longitudinal wedge-shaped mark above anal angle, not 
