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found to be very variable. Moreover the development of the genital uncus 
proves that the genus must be transferred with the preceding to the Tor- 
tricida ; it differs from GZnectra by the costal fold, from Ctenopseustis by the 
stalking of veins 7 and 8 of the forewings, from both by the triple thoracic 
erest. The combination of characters in this genus is very interesting. 
Thorax with a large erect crest on each side of back, and a small double 
crest behind. Antenne in male shortly ciliated. Palpi moderate, straight, 
porrected, second joint with appressed scales. Forewings in male with 
strong costal fold. Hindwings broader than forewings, lower median vein 
with strong basal pecten. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to 
near below apex. Hindwings with 8 veins, 8 and 4 separate, 8, 4, and 5 
more or less closely approximated at base, 6 and 7 stalked. Abdomen in 
male with genital uncus well developed. 
Epala. axenana, Meyr. 
Male, female.—19-26 mm. Forewings in male with apex less produced, 
hindmargin more perpendicular; very variable; markings always of same 
form but differing much in intensity, sometimes mixed with ochreous- 
greenish, or partially blackish; in both males the markings are suffused 
with blackish towards costa; in one female the whole dorsal half of wing 
beneath a straight line from middle of base to apex suffused with blackish, 
costal half unusually light. Hindwings in male pale grey ; in female often 
more or less ochreous posteriorly. 
Seven specimens (2 males, 5 females), taken at Palmerston and Taranaki, 
amongst forest ; in March. 
Caomcra, Hb. 
Cac. alopecana, n. sp. 
Minor, alis ant. ochreo-rufis, area basali, fascia media obliqua inferius 
dilatata, maculaque costz postica interdum saturatioribus, sepius obsoletis ; 
post. albidis, griseo-maculosis, apice rufescente ; antennarum ciliis longis. 
Male, female.—15-17 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax reddish-ochreous- 
brown. Antenne dark fuscous, in male with joints sharply angularly 
dilated at apex, ciliations long, twice the width of the joint. Abdomen 
whitish-ochreous. Legs ochreous-brown, anterior tibi; and tarsi dark 
fuseous, posterior pair ochreous-whitish. Forewings moderate, in male 
triangular, in female tolerably oblong, costa moderately arched, apex obtuse, 
hindmargin sinuate, slightly oblique ; reddish-ochreous-brown, varying in 
intensity, with numerous small dark leaden-grey spots, which are stronger 
and more purplish in female; an indefinable basal patch, a central oblique 
fascia apparently dilated on lower half, a triangular costal spot, and a hind- 
marginal suffusion sometimes obscurely darker, but generally obsolete: 
sometimes some evenly-scattered black dots, especially towards hindmargin : 
