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to dorsum, broadly margined with a pink area posteriorly which is traversed 
by several indistinct fuscous lines following the contour of the band; a 
serrated clear green subterminal line; termen marked with an almost con- 
tinuous blackish line: cilia greyish-green barred with black. Hindwings 
white, tinged with pink round termen and dorsum; numerous irregular 
uscous transverse lines, those on the basal half reaching only middle of 
wing; a dark discal dot before middle; an interrupted blackish line round 
termen, preceded by a greenish shade: cilia whitish-grey obscurely barred 
with fuscous. Hindwings beneath with a prominent blackish spot at { and 
a median chain of blackish spots sharply angulated at middle. 
Near to the bilineolata-paralodes group. The pink suffusion seems to 
be a good distinguishing character. 
A single 3 taken at Rowallan, Waiau, in December. Holotype in coll. 
A. Philpott. 
= CRAMBIDAE. 
Tauroscopa notabilis n. sp. 
5. 20mm. Head, palpi, and thorax black mixed with ochreous-whitish. 
Antennae black. Abdomen fuscous-black, anal tuft mixed with ochreous. 
Legs fuscous, tibiae and tarsi almost wholly whitish-ochreous. Forewings 
rather short, costa slightly arched at base, thence straight, apex rectangular, 
termen faintly rounded, little oblique, blackish-fuscous sprinkled with 
ochreous and white scales; an indistinct basal line, curved, irregular, 
White; first line from } costa to 2 dorsum, dentate at middle, white, sufiusedly 
margined anteriorly and narrowly posteriorly with black; a discal blackish 
blotch in whitish median shade; second line from 1 costa to $ dorsum, weakly 
dentate, roundly projecting above middle, white, narrowly margined anteriorly 
and suffusedly posteriorly, except at middle, with blackish ; a subterminal 
whitish shade; a series of round black spots on termen : cilia grey, tips 
whitish. Hindwings pale fuscous: cilia fuscous, tips whitish. — 
Somewhat resembling T. trapezitis Meyr., but at once distinguished by 
the shape of the first and second lines. 3s ; 
ount Peel, Nelson, in December. The unique specimen was given to 
me many years ago by the late Augustus Hamilton, and I deferred describ- 
ing the species in the hope of obtaining further material. 
Holotype ($) in coll. A. Philpott. 
PTEROPHORIDAE. 
Platyptilia pulverulenta n. sp. Lob me ot dad 
. 93mm. Head whitish, with a projecting conical tuft of hair. 
ES reddish-brown mixed with whitish. Ра1рі reddish. Thorax 
reddish-brown densely mixed with white. Abdomen greyish-brown. Legs 
reddish-brown broadly banded with ochreous-whitish. orewings part 
apex acute, termen of first segment concave, of second evenly dieti ; no 
own, densely sprinkled with white on basal н аа oe tosh ba costa 
segment and lower half of first ; a blackish-brown triangular o e zum 
at $, its apex below cleft: cilia brown mingled with white. Hin € 
Cow EROS we oe paler ; third vega with fairly even basa 
Series of dark spatulate scales extending to near tornus. ite line ; 
Nearest to b aeolodes Meyr., but without the subterminal white d 
the evenly rounded termen of the second segment of the forewing 18 also 
