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represented by obscure pinkish blotches: cilia reddish-brown, tips more 
or less whitish. Hindwings dark fuscous, in male reddish-tinged : cilia 
in j grey, in 9 basal half white, with interrupted dark basal line. Under- 
sides fuscous-grey, pink-tinged, in 9 paler. 
n general appearance very like P. ewingii (Westw.) but narrower- 
 winged and without the peculiar reniform of that species. 
uland Downs. One of each sex taken in February. Holotype (d) 
and allotype (9) in coll. Cawthron Institute. 
: PYRAUSTIDAE. 
Scoparia pura n. sp. 3 
$9. 21-22mm. Head grey mixed with fuscous. Maxilliary palpi | 
grey, labial fuscous. Antennae fuscous, in $ shortly ciliated. Thorax 
ginal series of black dots, preceded by an obscure white shade: cilia 
fuscous-grey with a darker basal line.  Hindwings greyish-fuscous, darker 
apically : cilia as in forewings. Female paler in all respects. 1 
Near S. nomeutis Meyr., but structurally distinct in the much shorter | 
antennal ciliations ; the angled first line is also a good distinguishing 
character. ; , 
Common on the tableland of Mount Arthur at 4,000 ft. to 5,000 ft. in | 
January. Holotype (4), alletype (9), and a series of paratypes in colL — - 
Cawthron Institute, E 
Scoparia falsa n. sp. 
59. 21-24mm. Head grey. Palpi brown, mixed with white on upper 
Legs whitish-ochreous, anterior tibiae and tarsi infuscated and annulated — 
with ochreous.  Forewings moderate, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, E 
termen faintly sinuate, oblique ; pale brown, densely irrorated with white ; 
and with scattered blackish-brown scales ; an indistinct short blackish- 
brown line from middle of base ; first line obscure, evenly curved, white, 
margined on costa with brown; a thick brownish-black discal streak from 
first line to reniform, margined beneath with brown ; elaviform irregular, ~ 
blackish, touching discal streak; reniform thick X-shaped, brownish-black, 
male bred from moss taken from the Dun Mountains at about 2,000 ft. ; 
the latter specimen emerged on 15th December. Holotype (4), allotype (9), 
and one paratype in coll. Cawthron Institute. 
