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spot, dorsal cilia on terminal half of second segment dark fuscous. Hind- 
wings and cilia snow-white, with a more or less distinct dark fuscous spot 
in costal cilia before apex. 
À handsome and distinct species. 
Hamilton, Palmerston, Makatoku, and Otira Gorge, locally common 
amongst dense forest, from January to March. 
9. Acipt. lycosema, n. sp. 
Male, female.—21-25 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, 
and legs white; anterior legs internally dark fuscous. Forewings fuscous 
or ochreous-fuscous ; a broad streak along costa from base to 4, attenuated 
posteriorly, a slender line along lower edge of first segment, a narrow streak 
along inner margin from 1, and whole of second segment snow-white : 
cilia snow-white, on costa mixed with fuscous, on lower edge of second 
segment with two small blackish spots before apex and one at apex, some- 
times also with one on lower edge of first segment before apex. Hindwings 
and cilia snow-white. 
Included by Walker as a variety of the preceding, from which it is 
undoubtedly distinet, and separable by the larger size, and wholly white 
thorax and second segment of forewings. 
Wellington, Christehurch, and Dunedin, amongst bush in December and 
January; rather common. 
4. Acipt. monospilalis, Walk. 
(Aciptilus monospilalis, Walk., 950 ; Aciptilia patruelis, Feld., Reis. Nov., pl. exl., 56.) 
Male, female,.—91-294 mm. Head, palpi, antenne, thorax, abdomen, and 
legs white; anterior legs internally fuscous. Forewings snow-white ; 
extreme costal edge and a few scattered scales, especially along costa, 
brownish-ochreous ; a blackish dot before cleft, and a minute one on inner 
margin before middle; sometimes one or two additional black dots on first 
segment, and rarely a streak of blackish scales along lower edge of first 
segment: cilia snow-white, on costa ochreous-tinged, on lower edge of 
second segment with two small blackish spots before apex, and one at apex, 
and usually a dot on lower edge of first segment before apex. Hindwings 
and cilia snow-white. 
Most allied to the Australian A. aptalis, which ranges into Fiji and 
Tonga. 
Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Otira River, and Dunedin, com- 
mon amongst forest, from December to March. 
5. Acipt. innotatalis, Walk. 
(Pterophorus innotatalis, Walk., 945.) 
Male, female.—15-16 mm. Head, palpi, antennz, thorax, and abdomen 
pale ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior pair internally fuscous. 
Forewings pale whitish-yellowish, suffused with pale ochreous on anterior 
