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similar fascia from 4 costa to $ dorsum; a narrower fascia from + costa, 
inwardly oblique and nearly or quite joining preceding fascia above tornus ; 
a broad regular fascia along termen : cilia dark brown. Hindwings and 
cilia dark brown. 
Belongs to the chrysogramma-compsogramma group, but differs from the 
former in having five yellow fasciae instead of four, and from the latter 
in the arrangement of the third and fourth fasciae, which do not form a 
definite loop as in that species. 
Otago, in forest; common from November to February. Оп the 
Hunter Mountains a form occurs in which the fasciae are frequently tinged 
with orange-reddish. Holotype (3), allotype (9), and a series of cotypes 
in coll. A. Philpott. 
Trachypepla roseata n. sp. 
d. 18 Head white mixed with brown.  Palpi whitish, second 
segment outwardly mixed with brownish-black, terminal segment with a 
subapical ring and some scattered scales brownish-black. Antennae brown, 
ciliations 1. Thorax brown mixed with white. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. 
Legs ochreous, tarsi banded with fuscous. Forewings moderate, apex 
rounded, termen oblique ; eyish-brown sprinkled with dark fuscous; 
a small black blotch on costa at base followed by a whitish area slightly 
tinged with ochreous; two tufts of rosy-pink scales at about 1, the seco 
obliquely above the first; a broad whitish band, enclosing some fuscous 
colouring, from costa at 2 to dorsum at 1, strongly excurved ; second line 
thin, sharply angulated outwards beneath costa, white, anteriorly margined 
with black on lower 2: cilia fuscous mixed with white. Hindwings greyish- 
fuscous : cilia greyish-fuscous, tips whitish. 
Near T. spartodeta Meyr., but differing in the rosy scale tufts and the 
sharper angulation of the second line. , 
Mr. G. V. Hudson is the discoverer of this pretty species, he having 
taken a specimen, in rather poor condition, at Takaka, Nelson. At his 
desire I am describing the species from a second example, taken by 
myself on the Dun Mountain, Nelson, at 2,000 ft., in January. I have 
adopted Mr. Hudson's manuscript specific name. Holotype (5) in coll. 
Cawthron Institute, ii 
HELIODINIDAE. 
Stathmopoda distincta n. sp. 
$9. 18-15 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax yellowish-white, darker Ш 
female. Antennae ochreous, infuscated on apical half. Abdomen ochreous- 
grey. Legs whitish-ochreous. Forewings elongate, narrow, costa almost 
straight, e acute, termen extremely oblique; yellow; a thick reddish- 
slightly paler. i 
Not closely related to any other species of the genus, though bere 
some similarity in general appearance to S. caminora Meyr. 
_ Dun Mountain, Nelson, in December and January. The species occurs 
in the forest from the base of the mountain to 3,000 ft., but it is not 
on. Holotype (9), allotype (3), and two paratypes in coll. an 
