Mzvnick,—ÓOn New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 118 
Wellington, Arthur's Pass (1,600 to 2,600 feet), Bealey River (2,100 feet), 
Mount Hutt, Dunedin, and Lake Wakatipu (1,000 feet), from December to 
February, frequenting rocks ; common. 
65. Xer. astragalota, n. sp. 
Male, female.—97 mm. Head and antenne ochreous white. Palpi 24, 
dark fuscous, apex broadly and basal joint white. Thorax ochreous-white, 
somewhat irrorated with fuscous on sides, with a short irregular black 
lateral mark from anterior margin. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs 
white, irrorated with fuscous, tibie and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. 
Forewings very elongate, triangular, costa hardly arched, apex round- 
pointed, hindmargin somewhat sinuate, hardly oblique; light ochreous, 
almost wholly suffused with white; markings black, somewhat suffused 
with reddish fuscous; a short very oblique streak from base of costa, 
reaching 4; posterior margin of first line indicated by an oblique narrow 
triangular spot from costa, uniting with orbicular, which is elongate, linear ; 
reniform quadrate, concave-sided, connected by a fuscous spot with a small 
spot on costa; second line obscurely pale, anteriorily somewhat dark- 
margined, with a few black scales on veins, and a small black spot on 
costa ; a light fuscous triangular spot on middle of hindmargin ; a hind- 
marginal row of very ill-defined blackish dots: cilia white, basal third 
barred with grey, and with a posterior grey line. Hindwings 1$, pale 
whitish-grey, ochreous-tinged ; lunule, postmedian line, and apex greyer ; 
cilia whitish. 
Immediately known by the pale colouring, and the conspicuous black 
subquadrate spot which represents the reniform. 
Mount Hutt, in December and January (Mr. R. W. Fereday) ; several 
specimens. 
66. Xer. rotuella, 
(Crambus rotuellus, Feld., Reis. Nov., pl. exxxvii., 30.) 
Female.—98-99 mm. Head and thorax light greyish-ochreous, some- 
what mixed with whitish, with a narrow black lateral stripe from eye to 
middle of thorax. Palpi 81, light greyish-ochreous, irrorated with dark 
fuscous, apex and basal joint white. Antenne, abdomen, and legs pale 
greyish-ochreous. Forewings very elongate, triangular, costa slightly 
arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin sinuate, rather oblique; light 
greyish-oehreous, beneath costa irrorated with white; a sharply-defined 
black median streak from base of costa to disc at about 3, margined with 
clear yellowish-ochreous, acutely attenuated ; first line obsolete; a sharply- 
defined black streak, margined with elear yellowish-ochreous, in dise above 
middle, extending from 4-3, upper margin somewhat protuberant near 
anterior extremity, and terminating posteriorly in an acutely trifurcate 
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