Meyricx.—On New Zealand Miero-Lepidoptera. 119 
Allied to X. octophora, but distinguished by the partial dark suffusion, 
the incomplete reniform, without white centre, and the dark lunule and 
margin of hindwings. 
Arthurs Pass (4,500 feet) Mount Hutt, and Lake Wakatipu, in 
January; four specimens. ' 
77. Xer. leucogramma, n. sp. 
Male, female.—291 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, and abdomen 
blackish-fuscous ; palpi 24, basal joint white. Legs ochreous-whitish, 
irrorated with dex fuscous, tibia and tarsi banded with blackish. Fore- 
wings somewhat elongate, triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, 
hindmargin rather oblique, slightly rounded ; blackish-fuscous, with a few 
white scales ; first line white, sharply defined, slightly curved, not oblique, 
not indented; orbicular and claviform very obsoletely darker; reniform 
almost obsolete, 8-shaped, obscurely pale-centred; second line slender, 
white, sharply defined, terminating hardly before anal angle, and therefore 
much less inwardly oblique than usual, curved in middle; subterminal 
indicated by a few white scales: cilia dark fuscous, with a blackish basal 
line, tips whitish. Hindwings 14, in male light grey, lunule, postmedian 
line and hindmargin darker ; in female dark fuscous-grey, lunule and apex 
darker; cilia grey with two dark grey lines, tips whitish. 
Extremely distinct from all other species by the blackish ground-colour, 
slender white lines, and peculiar position of second line. 
Mount Hutt, in January (Mr. R. W. Fereday) ; two specimens. 
78. APPENDIX. 
The following specific names are not quoted above ; viz. :— 
(1.) Scoparia linealis, Walk. Suppl., 1503. The specimen which I 
suppose to be Walker's type I did not determine, and it is perhaps not 
recognizable ; with it was placed a small specimen of Scoparia submaryinalis, 
(2.) Nephopteryx favilliferella, Walk. Suppl., 1719. The type is unset, 
and therefore not generically recognizable; it is certainly either a Scoparia 
or a Xeroscopa, but it seems hardly possible to assert anything more. 
(8.) Scoparia objurgalis, Gn., 425, pl. x., 10, and Scoparia australialis, 
Gn., 426, appear to me unidentifiable at present; the latter is, if correctly 
described, probably new to me, the former might possibly be S. exhibitalis, 
Walk. 
In the following indices the numbers refer to those prefixed to the 
names :— 
InpEx or GENERA. 
Nyctarcha, Meyr. .. i E Tetraprosopus, Butl. qus 
Scoparia, Hw. s pi s A Xeroscopa, Meyr. .. Pate ^ 
