Mzvnick.—ÓOn New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 111 
white interrupted hindmarginal line: cilia whitish, barred with dark grey, 
with a grey line. Hindwings 14, very pale whitish-ochreous, greyish- 
tinged; apex and upper part of hindmargin rather narrowly grey; cilia 
white, base whitish-ochreous, with an interrupted grey line. 
This species may perhaps be transferred to Tetraprosopus when the male 
is known, since it agrees with that genus and differs from the other species 
of Xeroscopa in the extension of the discal hairs of hindwings almost to 
hindmargin ; but it so closely resembles X. petrina that it seems better left 
here until then. 
Mount Macedon, Victoria, in December (Mr. G. H. Raynor) ; Mount 
Lofty, South Australia (Mr. E. Guest); two specimens. 
62. Xer. encausta, n. sp. 
Male,—27 mm. Head and thorax fuscous-grey, irrorated with white, 
with a dark fuscous lateral stripe from eye to beyond middle of thorax. 
Palpi 22, dark fuscous, apex and basal joint white. Antenne grey, cilia- 
tions 4. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs white, irrorated with fuscous, 
tibie and tarsi banded with fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa 
moderately and evenly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin obliquely rounded ; 
fuscous-grey, densely irrorated with white ; a black median streak, margined 
with fuscous, from base to near middle of disc; first line obsolete; a fine 
black streak, acutely attenuated anteriorly, in disc above middle from 4-2, 
posteriorly coalescing with a fuscous longitudinal bar which extends from 
beyond middle of dise fo middle of hindmargin; from upper margin of 
discal streak beyond middle proceeds a short irregular strigula, representing 
reniform ; veins posteriorly more or less distinctly marked with black, on 
fuscous bar strongly lined; second line very obscure, white, posteriorly 
suffusedly dark-margined towards costa: cilia whitish, basal third broadly : 
barred with dark grey, and with a grey posterior line. Hindwings 14, very 
pale whitish-ochreous, greyish-tinged, apex and upper part of hindmargin 
rather narrowly fuscous-grey ; cilia whitish, with a grey line. 
Differs from all by the more arched costa of the forewings, and black 
"basal, median, and posterior streaks, appearing to form parts of a single 
broken streak. 
Mount Wellington, Tasmania, at 1,200 feet, on a tree-trunk in December ; 
one specimen. 
63. Xer. petrina, n. sp. 
Male,—30-31 mm.; female-—24 mm. Head and thorax dark grey, irror- 
ated with white. Palpi8, dark fuscous, apex and basal joint white. Antenne 
grey; ciliations }. Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous. Legs white, irrorated 
with dark fuscous, tibie and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. Forewings 
very elongate, triangular, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin 
