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Labial palpi long, recurved, second joint reaching base of antennae, 
thickened with appressed scales, terminal joint shorter than second, scaled, 
pointed. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Posterior tibiae smooth-scaled. Fore- 
wings 2 from angle, curved, 6-8 straight, slightly approximated towards 
base, 7 to costa, 9 and 10 somewhat approximated at base, 11 from 
middle. Hindwings 1, elongate-oblong-ovate, cilia 2; 2 from rather near 
angle, 3 from angle, 4 rather approximated to 3 towards base, 5 parallel, 
transverse vein inwards-oblique from 4 to 5, 6 and 7 rather approximated 
towards base. 
Belongs to group of Orthenches, from which genus it differs by terminal 
joint. of labial palpi shorter than second, absence of maxillary palpi, and 
costal termination of vein 7 of forewings. This interesting form suggests 
some affinity with Depressaria and Cryptolechia, and may indicate the origin 
_ of the Oecophoridae from the Plutellidae, in which case it would be of high 
phylogenetic importance. 
Cadmogenes literata n. sp. | 
$9. 15-17 mm. Head and thorax dull rosy or purple-fuscous. Palpi 
speckled with dark grey and irregularly marbled and strigulated with pale 
cehreous-yellowish, or purple-fuscous obscurely dotted and strigulated with 
whitish ; discal stigmata represented by irregular transverse-linear some- 
times interrupted white partially dark-edged marks: cilia light rosy or 
violet-grey. Hindwings pale grey ; cilia whitish-grey, with very faint rosy —— 
or purple tinge. | 
Silverstream (Upper Hutt) and Auckland, in January; two examples. 
ese differ considerably in tone, but are certainly the same species. 
Orthenches porphyritis Meyr. 
I now regard cwprea Meyr. as only a variety ot this; the species is 
extremely variable in markings and colouring ; in some forms it displays 
all the colours of the rainbow, and is a beautiful insect. Mr. Hudson has 
bred it from Phyllocladus alpinus. 
LYONETIADAE. 
Erechthias indicans n. sp. 
2. 9mm. Head white, sides of crown brown. Palpi fuscous, tip white. | : 
horax brown, with white dorsal stripe. Abdomen whitish. Forewing’ _ 
elongate-lanceolate, apex produced; brown irrorated with dark fuscous;  — 
an irregular whit i i 
at base along termen, Hindwings and cilia whitish. 
Wellington, January; one example. N. but smaller and | 
darker, and distinct by the white ле) ie iud | exospila, bu d 
