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9. 40mm. Head black, crown white. Palpi brown mixed with 
whitish. Antennae brownish-black, shortly bipectinate. Thorax dark 
reddish-brown, collar broadly whitish. Abdomen glossy brownish-black. 
Legs very dark brown, tarsi narrowly annulated with ochreous. Forewings 
rather short, not dilated posteriorly, costa subsinuate, apex bluntly 
rounded, termen bowed, very oblique; sooty-brown; markings white; a 
line beneath costa from base to $2, where it connects with a dark-centred 
ring-spot; a median fascia from base, suffusedly dilated posteriorly, its 
lower edge almost touching a rounded spot in disc at 1; a bent linear mark 
on dorsum beneath this spot; a large elongate-oval spot beneath costa before 
middle; an irregularly triangular blotch before tornus, its apex pointing 
towards base; an irregular fascia from apex to disc at 2, enclosing one or 
more dark dots ; some white scales round termen : cilia short, brown mixed 
with white. Hindwings dark fuscous with a few white marks beneath 
costa apically. 
- Oliver took a single example at Glenorchy, Wakatipu, in December, 
at an elevation of about 5,000 ft. He has since obtained further examples 
from the same locality. 
Sabatinca demissa n. sp. Moser cine: 
9. 6-5 Head ochreous, with a dense spreading frontal tuft of 
long coarse hair. Antennae ochreous, with broad blackish bands at base, 
at 3, and before apex. Thorax ochreous. Abdomen fuscous-grey. Legs 
ochreous, tarsi annulated with blackish. Forewings rather broad, apex 
broadly pointed ; ochreous irrorated with dark fuscous ; three or four incom- 
k strigae on apical 1: cilia ochreous, with a black bar marking 
apex of wing. Hindwings and cilia grey-fuscous. 
One of the smaller species, but not closely associated with S. zonodoxa 
Meyr. or S. rosicoma Meyr. The bi-coloured antennae and the spreading 
head-tufts recall S. eodora Meyr., but the markings are entirely different. 
Three specimens taken by Dr. R. J. Tillyard at Te Wairoa Waterfall, 
near Lake Tarawera, in November. Holotype (9) and a paratype in coll. 
Cawthron Institute. 
Sabatinca incongruella Walk., Cat. Brit. Mus., vol. 28, p. 511, 1863. 
t may be worth while recording the discovery of the cocoon and pupal 
skin of this species, there being so little known about the early stages of 
the members of the genus. On the 9th N ovember, 1921, a supply of à 
species of liverwort found growing freely at a spot where several species st 
Sabatinca had been taken was secured, and some breeding-cages fitted up; 
in the hope of ascertaining whether the plant had any connection with 
the life-history of the genus. On the 30th December a female 8. i эй 
emerged in one of these cages, and a careful search resulted in the finding - 
of the cocoon and cast pupal skin. No other emergences took place, jou 
it seems likely that the liverwort is the food-plant of the species, as 1218 
improbable that the moth should have been in the pupal stage at the саз 
when the breeding-cage was prepared. 
