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tibie and tarsi banded with black.  Forewings elongate, triangular, costa 
slightly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin slightly sinuate, somewhat 
oblique; light ochreous, sometimes mixed with reddish-ochreous ; a black 
white-margined triangular spot on costa at base ; first line slender, white, 
very oblique, almost straight, somewhat indented; a broad black median 
band, narrowing gradually downwards, bounded anteriorly by first line, and 
posteriorly by a nearly straight line from beyond middle of costa to $ of 
inner margin, triangularly indented below middle; space between this band 
and second line white; reniform pale ochreous, surrounded by a few grey 
scales ; second line white, anteriorly suffused, margined with a few black 
scales in curve and a small black mark on costa; subterminal obsolete or 
somewhat whitish, anteriorly suffusedly margined with grey ; a small black 
triangular spot on middle of hindmargin ; a row of black dots before hind- 
margin: cilia shining grey. Hindwings 14, pale grey, postmedian line and 
hindmargin suffusedly darker grey ; cilia white or whitish, with two grey 
lines. 
Conspicuously distinct from any other. 
Wellington, Castle Hill, Mount Hutt, Dunedin, and Lake Wakatipu 
(1,000 feet), amongst bush in December and January ; several specimens. 
72. Xer. nomeutis, n. sp. 
Male, female——17-21 mm. Head and thorax dark grey, mixed with 
white and black. Palpi 23, blackish mixed with white, basal joint white. 
Antenne dark grey, in male strongly pubescent, ciliations 1. Abdomen 
grey or dark grey, irrorated with white. Legs white irrorated with dark 
fuscous, tibie and tarsi banded with black. Forewings somewhat elongate, 
triangular, in female more oblong, costa hardly arched, apex rounded, hind- 
margin rounded, rather oblique ; greyish-ochreous or fuscous, densely irror- 
ated with white, and with a few black scales ; a suffused blackish spot in 
middle of base, and one on inner margin near base; first line whitish, 
obscure, posteriorly blackish-margined, oblique, hardly curved, slightly 
indented ; orbicular very small, round, black, sometimes pale-centred, 
detached ; claviform very small, black, detached ; reniform 8-shaped, black- 
margined except above and beneath, touching a blackish suffusion on middle 
of costa ; second line whitish, anteriorly blackish-margined, rather abruptly 
angulated above middle, indented beneath costa; subterminal whitish, very 
obscure, touching second line in middle: cilia grey, basal third barred with 
dark grey and white, tips whitish. Hindwings 14, fuscous-grey, hindmargin 
Suffusedly darker; cilia whitish, with two suffused grey lines. 
A peculiar species, in markings approaching more the typical forms of 
Scoparia ; differs also from the other species, in which the male is known, 
by the structure of the antenne, 
