122 Transactions.— Zoology. 
The Epipaschiade do not occur in either region. 
The Pyralidina may be recognized by the close approximation or partial 
anastomosis of veins 7 and 8 of the hindwings for a short distance beyond 
the cell. Normally the forewings have 12 veins, veins 8 and 9 being 
stalked, and the hindwings 8 veins, but the number of veins is sometimes 
reduced. The hindwings have 8 free inner-marginal veins (1a, 1b, 1e), 
reckoned as one; the group is thus distinguished from the Noctuina, in 
which there are only two. 
The following tabulation will serve to distinguish the families of the 
group as represented in New Zealand :— 
la. Wings cleft into plumes de i. Ei Am i .. Pterophoride. 
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2a. Forewings with 11 veins PA 2: a Pe AE .. Musotimide. 
b. with 12 veins. 
2 ; 
3a. Lower median vein of hindwings pectinated. 
4a 
4 
. Maxillary palpi resting on labial — .. Crambide. 
" » separately porrected .. pos ee ia .. Scopariade (part). 
3b. Lower median vein of hindwings naked. 
4a. Vein 7 of forewings stalked with 9 .. Dé s u .. Pyralidide. 
4b. A i separate. 
5a. Genital uncus of male absent.. UM s =e n .. JBotydide. 
5b. ^ i » developed. 
6a. Maxillary palpi resting on labial . ee a .. Hydrocampide. 
6b. = 
» triangular, separately porrected .. Fe .. Scopariade (part). 
PYRALIDIDA 
Forewings with 12 veins, vein 7 stalked with 8 and 9, 10 separate. 
Hindwings with lower median naked ; vein 7 from angle of cell. 
1. Asor, Tr. 
Ocelli absent. Antenne in male ciliated. Labial palpi moderate, 
curved, ascending. Maxillary palpi slender or rudimentary. Forewings 
with veins 4 and 5 stalked. Hindwings with veins 4 and 5 stalked, 8 free. 
1, Asop. farinalis, L. 
Male, female.—18-25 mm. Forewings moderate, triangular ; ochreous, 
basal and terminal areas reddish-fuscous ; lines whitish, first eurved, second 
with median third strongly curved outwards. Hindwings grey or grey- 
whitish ; two whitish lines as in forewings, but much nearer together. 
A well-known cosmopolitan and domestic species, introduced from 
Europe. 
Christchurch ; although I have not obtained it elsewhere, it probably 
occurs generally. ^ 
PTEROPHORIDA. 
No ocelli or maxillary palpi. Wings cleft into two or three feathers. 
Forewings with vein 7 separate from 9; venation often much degraded and 
simplified. Hindwings with lower median naked. 
