PurrPorr.—XNotes and Descriptions of N.Z. Lepidoptera. 661. 
Forewings moderate, costa hardly arched, apex pointed, termen markedly 
sinuate, oblique ; pale bronzy-fuscous mixed with dark fuscous ; ngs 
snow-white ; a small basal patch ; a broad band before middle, projecting 
outwardly in disc and touching following band; an outwardly- oblique 
fascia from costa beyond middle, ае in dise with broad band at 7 
and terminating on tornus ; a terminal band, dilated at apex; in the dark- 
fuscous discal area and above dorsum at 1 are a few shining steel-blue scales : 
hite 
fringes on termen pale bronzy-fuscous with three white lines, on costa 
darker fuscous with median white line.  Hindwings ish-fuscous ; apical 
j suffusedly white: fringes fuscous ; a broad median band and tips white. 
Very distinct; from the breadth : the white band the general effect 
is that of a white species with narrow fuscous fasciae. 
A single female taken in March by Dr. R. J. Tillyard on Mount Cook 
at an altitude of 2,500 ft. Type in coll. Cawthron Institute 
MNESARCHAEIDAE, 
Mnesarchaea similis n. sp. (Fig. 4.) 
d. llmm. Head white. Palpi white with a few brown scales on 
second segment. Antennae dull ochreous. Thorax pale ochreous, mixed 
with fuscous anteriorly. Abdomen fuscous-grey. gs greyish-fuscous, 
tarsi annulated with ochreous-white. Forewings lanceolate, costa moderate tely 
arched, apex acute, termen straight, very oblique ; ochreous-whitish, densely 
irrorated with bronzy and dark fuscous on apical If; a broad stripe of 
ronzy-fuscous along basal half of costa, its apex angled obliquely down- 
wards towards tornus and extending across wing; a large subtriangular 
Ve бнын атте to М. hamadelpha Meyr. in colour and markings, but а 
slightly larger and darker insect ; the genitalia offer very distinct characters. 
Mount Arthur tableland (4, 500 ft. ), in December ; Cobb Valley (2,800 ft.), 
also in С. and Flora River (3,250 ft.), in January. А few male 
specimens from each locality. Бинур (d) and paratypes in coll. 
Cawthron Institute. 
MicROPTERYGIDAE. 
Sabatinca aemula n. sp. (Fig. 5, C and D.) 
d9. 11-12mm. Head and thorax reddish-ochreous. н ochreous. 
Antennae dark fuscous, basal fifth (in 9 basal third) ochreous. Abdomen 
ish-fuscous. Legs ochreous, last tarsal segment fuseous. ^ Forewings 
ovate-lanceolate, costa strongly ыа basally, apex acute, termen very 
— yen sinuate ; shining ochreous, darker on apical half and above 
; a silve ety white fascia from costa at middle; irregular 
yen ртк in shape, sometimes spot-like, sometimes reaching middle of 
wing where it touches an irregular black spot; a similar but usually 
broader fascia at 3, also connecting with a black (generally Te spot ; 
sometimes a silvery-white dot or dots between second fascia and apex ; 
series of silvery-white spots round termen : mee bares with 
