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its middle an irregular X-shaped black mark, lower angle resting on 
roundish white spot; second line double, fine, grey, curved, vel, 
indented on fold; a terminal fascia of grey epe including apical 
x b 
dot preceded by a white crescentic mark, and s ack semicircular 
terminal dots more or less edged a anteriorly : "cilia whitish, a dark- 
grey basal line and greyish subapical line. Hindwings light grey, a curved 
whitish line at 2$, and a ж; Meal line, terminal edge grey ; cilia 
whitish, a light-grey subbasal 
Mount Ruapehu (2,800 ft.), NL M. in December and January 
(Hudson); two specimens. Very like elaina, but immediately SAP 
by the black terminal dots, of which there is no trace in 
Catamacta transfixa n. sp. елм 
d. 15mm. Head and thorax dark purplish- ot нна with dark 
red-brown. Palpi dark fuscous. Antennal ciliation Forewings sub- 
oblong, costa anteriorly gently arched, with rather 45 fold dire base to 
beyond 4, termen sinuate, oblique ; ferruginous-brown suffusedly reticulated 
with glistening greyish- -violet ; a narrow suffused'ochreous-whitish median 
streak from base to termen, similar streaks on veins 6 and 7, on vein 3, 
and space between this and tornus suffusedly irrorated ochreous-whitis 
cilia iim ied -brown mixed whitish, tips whitish, at apex a Violin 
bar. Hindwings pale grey, very faintly -m mottled ; cilia whitish. 
Wellington, in December (Hudson); one specimen. 
Tortrix zestodes n. sp. 
5. 14mm. Headferruginous. Palpi ferruginous-brown, tip mixed dark 
fuscous. Antennal ciliations 14. Thorax ferruginous mixed dark fuscous 
Forewings elongate, slightly dilated, costa anteriorly gently edt without 
fold, termen nearly straight, little oblique; ferruginous-ochreous ; ] 
patch ferruginous, edge rather irregular, oblique ; central fascia Di üpihove- 
a broad ferruginous-brown terminal fascia: c erruginous, with tips 
pale, towards tornus grey, on costa barred grey. Hindwings dark grey, 
on posterior half dotted pale grey; cilia light grey, with dark-grey sub- 
basal line, tips on apex and upper part of termen whitish-ochreous 
Flora Camp, Mount Arthur, 2,500 ft., in January (Miss Stella Hudson); 
one specimen. Nearest crypsidora. 
а GELECHIADAE. 
Gelechia lapillosa n. sp. 
5. 15-16 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax slaty-grey, somewhat speckled 
whitish. Forewings rather narrow, apex pointed, termen very oblique uely 
rounded ; dark slaty-fuscous, irregularly sprinkled or ne whitish-grey ; 
markings cloudy, formed by absence of pale mixture, or in one specimen 
blackish ; spots representing stigmata, plical rather SBliquely before first 
discal, a thick oblique bar from costa terminating in these two, an 
additional spot midway between ed and base; an angulated ey- 
whitish transverse shade at more or less distinot : cilia light grey, 
basal half somewhat sprinkled dark fuscous. Hindwings and cilia light 
ey. 
Mount Ruapehu, 4,000 ft., in клау, “very common in river-bed " 
(Hudson); four specimens. Next lithodes 
