Meyrick.—Descriptions of New Zealand Lepidoptera. 169 
TINEIDAE. 
Narycia Steph. | 
Head shortly rough-haired. Antennae 4-3, in d ciliated. Labial 
palpi rather short, loosely scaled. Maxillary palpi obsolete. Forewings 
7 and 8 stalked or coincident, 7 to apex or termen.  Hindwings 1, elongate- 
ovate; 2-7 nearly parallel. 
Largely represented in Australia, and also occurs widely in India and 
Africa, but not previously noticed from New Zealand. The larvae usually 
feed in portable cases on lichens. . 
Narycia petrodoxa n. sp. 
21mm. Head light greyish-ochreous, face and a spot on crown 
dark fuscous. Palpi dark fuscous. Thorax pale greyish-ochreous marked 
with dark fuscous (partly defaced). Abdomen rather dark grey. Fore- 
wings elongate, posteriorly slightly dilated, costa gently arched, apex 
obtuse-pointed, termen slightly rounded, rather strongly oblique; 7 and 8 
dark-fuscous  strigulae ; 
irregular spots on anterior half of costa; a transverse spot on midddle o 
costa, connected by irregular or incomplete arms with quadrate spots on 
dorsum jn middle and before tornus; three narrow transverse spots on 
posterior half of costa, a larger transverse spot from termen below middle : 
cilia rather dark purplish-fuscous. Hindwings dark grey; cilia grey. 
i i i December; one example. 
Otira Gorge, 2, , in hot sunshine, . 
Quite of Australian type, but still very distinct from any species known 
to me. 
MICROPTERYGIDAE. 
10mm. Head and thorax golden-ochreous. Antennae dark fuscous, 
us 
-grey dots round posterior % of costa 
te mark on dorsum before middle of wing; some 
irregular whitish marginal spots adjoining these, 
ees costa at 3: m. Ale golden-ochreous. Hindwi 
cilia pale ochreous tinged with grey towards base, on dorsum purplish-grey. 
Bold Peak, Lake Wakatipu, 3,000 М 
example. Forewings more long-poin 
Micropardalis aurella Huds. 
Described as Sabatinca, 
The males of this species and of M. 
Sabat пса The labial palpi, though short, are more developed in doroxena 
pens М ©, and the long maxillary palpi are also more largely developed. 
In aurella 3 the labial palpi are very 
