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ochreous - whitish, brassy- yellow on anterior segments. Legs whitish-  . 
ochreous, anterior and middle pairs infuscated. Forewings lanceolate; 
ochreous-whitish ; a ferruginous suffusion along fold, sometimes extended 
to before apex, sometimes absent; area beneath fold usually clearer 
white: fringes greyish-ochreous. Hindwings and fringes pale fuscous-grey. 
An obscure species, but not easily confused with any other; it is the 
smallest yet described. 
obb Valley, in December. Five males among rough herbage. Holo- 
type (3) and three paratypes in coll. Cawthron Institute. 
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Stomopteryx simplicella (Walk.), Tin., 1024; Meyrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. 
N.S.W., vol. 29, p. 305, 1904. (Fig. 3, A, B, and C.) 
This common Australian species is now established in New Zealand. 
Several specimens have been taken at Nelson, the dates varying from 
February to April. . Meyrick, to whom I am indebted for the 
identification, informs me that the species is common throughout the 
‘southern half of Australia and also in Tasmania. I give below a brief . 
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description. 
sternite; 3t = eighth tergi бега! view of gentalia, eighth segment — 
removed. С. Inner view of valva. EV 
Bic. 4.—Mnesarchaea similis n. sp. : Inner view of genitalia (drawn under cover slip). — 
Fic. 3.—A. Stomopterye simplicella (Walk.). Lateral view of genitalia: 8* = eighth — 
ite. B. La 
SF. 9-IImm. Head shining pearly-grey. Palpi ochreous-white, 
terminal segment Ante i 
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GLYPHIPTERYGIDAE, 
Simaethis tillyardi n. sp. "x 
9. 174 mm. -Head and thorax white mixed with pale fuscous. Palpi, 
second segment strongly tufted beneath, white mixed with fuscous, term M 
segment white mixed with black. Antennae black annulated with white. 
Abdomen bronzy-fuscous, suffusedly annulated with whitish. gs whit 
mixed with bronzy-fuscous, apices of tibiae and tarsi annulated with white 
