150 Transactions. 
Platyptilia ferruginea n. sp. 
21 mm. Head bright ferruginous with many white scales. Palpi 
ferruginous, terminal joint mixed with white. Antennae ferruginous- 
grey. Thorax bright ferruginous sprinkled with white points. Abdomen 
ferruginous, segmental divisions mixed with white. Legs, anterior pair 
erruginous mingled with white, posterior pair ferruginous, tarsi broadly 
annulated with white. Forewings cleft from $, segments rather narrow, termen 
of first sinuate, of second evenly rounded ; bright ferruginous densely sprinkled 
with white ; costal edge blackish-red to $ ; an elongate dark reddish-fuscous 
mark on fold near base; spots of similar colour beneath costa at { an 
on dorsum at 3, the latter large and suffused ; a triangular blackish-brown 
blotch on costa at $, its apex below cleft; a white spot on costa following 
blackish blotch; a thin white subterminal line crossing both segments, 
broadly margined anteriorly with blackish-brown ; costal edge above sub- 
terminal line narrowly white: cilia ferruginous mixed with white; a dark 
basal line, within cleft almost wholly whitish, on dorsum mixed with 
black scales almost to tornus. Hindwings, first cleft from middle, second 
om $; pale ferruginous: cilia ferruginous-grey ; on dorsum a basal line 
of blackish-red ; spatulate scales extending almost to tornus. ` 
Somewhat resembling P. falcatalis Walk., but smaller and more brightly 
coloured. The forewings are narrower and the termen of the first segment 
is less concave. In the hindwing the prominent median tooth of scales 
present in falcatalis is absent in ferruginea. 
A single example, secured on the Mount Arthur tableland at an elevation 
of about 4,500 ft. The specimen was taken late in February, on the bank 
of a small stream in an open place in the forest. Holotype (9) in coll. 
Cawthron Institute. 
TORTRICIDAE. 
Epichorista emphanes Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. (1901), p. 571. 
E. theatralis Philp., Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 50, p. 128, 1918. 
The acquirement of abundant material from the Mount Arthur table- 
land has shown me that the above correction is necessary. The female 
of emphanes is very variable, and the handsome theatralis is but one of the 
extreme forms. 
Tortrix spatiosa n. sp. 
5. 27mm. Head, palpi, and thorax purplish-brown tinged with grey, 
Antennae ochreous-brown, ciliations 1. Abdomen ochreous. Legs ochreous, 
with ochreous suffusion ; median band slightly Stee, very obscure, 
dilated on lower portion, anterior margin indented beneath costa; some 
whitish scales on costal edge at 4; a triangular area on costa before эре 
darker; terminal area ochreous : cilia bright ochreous. Hindwings whitish- 
grey obscurely mottled with darker: cilia whitish, tinged with ochreous 
round apex and termen. 
. 9. 28mm. Head, palpi and thorax pale purplish-brown tinged wi 
pink. Abdomen pale oc . Legs а amd orewings hend ps 
strongly arched basally, slightly sinuate before apex, apex round-pointel» 
termen sinuate, not oblique, rounded beneath ; ochreous, crossed vi 
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