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10. Platypt. haasti, Feld. 
(Platyptilia haasti, Feld., Reis. Nov., pl. exl., 58.) 
Male, female.—16-17 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen yellowish- 
whitish, often suffused with light brownish-ochreous. Antenne grey. 
Legs yellow-whitish, banded with dark fuseous. Forewings yellow-whitish, 
with numerous obscure fuscous or brownish-ochreous transverse strigæ, 
sometimes nearly obsolete, in other specimens nearly concealing ground- 
colour; costa from base to 2 spotted with dark fuscous; a triangular 
blackish-fuscous spot on costa before 2, reaching 4 across wing, connected 
at apex with a sometimes obsolete dark fuscous transverse mark in dise ; 
short interrupted dark fuscous longitudinal streak in dise beyond middle; a 
blackish dot on inner margin at $; a small elongate dark fuscous spot on 
costa a little before apex, followed by a tolerably distinct irregular yellow- 
whitish line not reaching inner margin: cilia yellow-whitish, often suffused 
with pale ochreous, with a blackish interrupted basal line. Hindwings 
rather dark reddish-grey ; cilia grey, on hindmargin with a partially obsolete 
blaekish basalline, on lower margin of third segment with a small spot of 
black scales in middle. 
Distinguished from both the following by the restriction of the black 
scales on the lower margin of hindwings to a small central spot, and the 
obscurely transversely strigulated forewings. 
Hamilton, Otira River, Christchurch, Lake Wakatipu, and Invercargill ; 
common in December and January. 
11. Platypt. falcatalis, Walk. 
(Platyptilus falcatalis, Walk., 931; Platyptilus repletalis, ib., 931.) 
Male, female.—90—25 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen light 
reddish-fuscous, irregularly mixed with white, sides of abdomen spotted with 
blackish. Antenne fuscous. Legs white, banded with reddish-fuscous. 
Forewings light reddish-fuscous, irregularly strewn with whitish ; costa nar- 
rowly dark fuscous from base to 2, somewhat spotted with whitish ; a cloudy 
rather dark reddish-fuscous spot on inner margin at } and another beyond 
middle; a sharply marked blackish-fuscous triangular blotch on costa 
about £, reaching half across wing, its apex touching a dark fuscous discal 
dot; a small white spot on costa immediately beyond this; a white some- 
times interrupted line near and parallel to hindmargin, preceded on first 
segment below middle by a blackish-fuscous triangular spot, and on second 
segment by a blackish-fuscous suffusion ; on first segment ground-colour 
between this line and costal blackish blotch whitish-ochreous, on lower edge 
margined with blackish: cilia pale reddish-fuscous, with a dark fuscous 
line, within cleft and on apical and costal spots white, on inner margin 
white with a tooth of black scales at 2 and a smaller one at $. Hindwings 
