Mevricx.—On New Zealand Migro-Lepidoptera. 198 
This group, usually separated as a main division, offers in my opinion 
no characters sufficient to admit of its separation from the Pyralidina, with 
the other families of which it is closely allied. The wings are unusually 
narrow, and the abdomen and legs very long and slender. 
Oxyptilus vigens, Feld., said (perhaps erroneously) to be from New 
Zealand, I have not been able absolutely to identify. Felder would 
probably (loose as he is) have hardly classed it as an Oxyptilus unless he 
had observed the characteristic tuft on the third plume of the hindwings. 
The four genera may be thus tabulated :— 
la. No veins to costa from cell of forewings — .. zi AT .. 2. Aciptilia. 
1b. Two or more veins to costa from cell. 
2a. Face smooth  .. se ol £ e “a .. 38. Lioptilus. 
2b. ,, with a cone of slo. 
3a. Hindwings 5-veined  .. EP as m "m = .. 4. Mimeseoptilus. 
3b. " 6-veined  .. is - A» .. va .. 5. Platyptilia. 
2. AciPTILIA, Hb. 
Face smooth. Antenne moderately ciliated. Palpi moderate or short, 
very slender, ascending. Posterior tibie with spurs very long, inner longer 
than outer. Forewings cleft more than 4, segments linear-acute ; with 6 
veins (8, 3); 2 and 3 from a point, 4 from transverse vein, 5 to apex, 6 free. 
Hindwings with segments linear-acute, third dilated anteriorly; with 5 
veins (1, 2, 2); 1b. distinct, 2 and 3 from a point (rarely 2 obsolete), 4 
apparently coalescing wholly with 5 beyond cell. 
Stands isolated by the entire obsolescence of all the veins usually rising 
from the cell before the upper angle, and marks a terminal development in 
this direction. Apparently of world-wide distribution, though from Australia 
I have only a single species. 
la. Hindwings dark grey a ws ig ii s v .. 5. innotatalis. 
1b. white. 
2a. isa with a fuscous longitudinal stripe. 
3a. Thorax ee) fuscous .. T : i» vs .. 2. furcatalis. 
y white re aa 3. lycosema. 
2b. fiori dd fuscous stipe ee a .. 4. monospilalis. 
2. Acipt. pedes Walk. 
(Aciptilus furcatalis, Walk., 950; Feld., Reis. Nov., pl. cxl., 52.) 
Male, female.—16-19 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, and legs white; 
anterior legs internally dark fuscous. Thorax pale fuscous irrorated with 
dark fuscous, anterior margin broadly white. Abdomen white, with a 
central longitudinal fuscous stripe. Forewings light fuscous irrorated with 
dark fuscous; a broad costal streak from base to opposite cleft, an oblong 
spot on costa beyond 3, and a narrow line along upper edge of second 
segment snow-white: cilia white, costal cilia dark fuscous except on white 
