Meyrick. — On Neiv Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 15 



Male, female. — 14-17 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae dark fuscous. 

 Thorax white, anterior margin dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Legs 

 dark fuscous, apex of tarsal joints obscurely pale. Forewings elongate, 

 costa arched towards base and apex, rest nearly straight, apex round- 

 pointed, hindmargin very obliquely rounded; dark fuscous; a large white 

 basal patch, slightly ochreous-tinged, outer edge slightly irregular, extend- 

 ing from J of costa to before middle of inner margin ; a small elongate 

 blackish spot on base of costa ; two large spots of raised ochreous-brown 

 scales, partially black-margined, in disc before middle, and two smaller ones 

 beyond middle ; a small somewhat triangular inwardly oblique white spot 

 on costa at -f , emitting from its apex a slender white outwards-angulated 

 line to hindmargin above anal angle, anteriorly blackish-margined : cilia 

 fuscous-grey, with an obscure darker line. Hindwings fuscous-grey, darker 

 towards apex ; cilia fuscous-grey, with an obscure darker line. 



Nearly allied to the following, but immediately known by the consider- 

 ably larger white basal patch, and differing also in the unevenly arched 

 costa and deeper colouring, with the clear white thorax. 



Auckland, Wellington, Dunedin, in January ; eight specimens. 

 10. Track, conspicuella, Walk. 

 (Gelechia conspicuella, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 651 ; Gelechia taongella, Feld., Eeis. Nov., 



■PL CXL., 45.) 



Minor, alis ant. fuscis, macula ad basim transversa angustiori alteraque 

 parva costae postica nebulosa lineam transversam emittente canis ; post, 

 griseis. 



Male, female. — 13-16^ mm. Head, palpi, and antennae fuscous. Thorax 

 fuscous, posteriorly mixed with white. Abdomen pale fuscous. Legs dark 

 fuscous, apex of tarsal joints pale. Forewings elongate, costa moderately 

 arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; fuscous, 

 suffused with dark fuscous towards costa, more ochreous-tinged towards 

 inner margin ; an irregularly triangular white patch towards base, its base 

 resting on basal third of inner margin, its apex touching costa at \ ; a very 

 large tuft of raised blackish and fuscous scales on fold at \, a smaller one 

 above it, and two others in disc beyond middle ; a small suffused white spot 

 on costa at f , emitting a cloudy outwards-angulated white line to anal angle, 

 anteriorly blackish-margined : cilia grey, with two obscure dark fuscous 

 lines. Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey. 



Differs from T. euryleucota by the much smaller and differently shaped 

 white basal patch, the lighter and more confused colouring, the suffusion of 

 the white costal spot, and the lighter hindwings. 



Wellington and Christchurch, in December and January ; common at 

 rest on fences. 



