Meyrick.— On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 23 



dark fuscous, basal joint pale green. Thorax pale green, a small spot on 

 each side of neck, an oblique mark on each side of back, and a small poste- 

 rior spot black. Abdomen whitish-grey. Legs dark fuscous, tibiae with 

 central and apical rings, tarsi with apex of joints whitish, posterior tibia? 

 with whitish hairs above. Forewings moderate, costa gently or moderately 

 arched, faintly sinuate in middle, apex obtuse, hindmargin oblique, slightly 

 sinuate or nearly straight ; pale green, with sharply defined black linear 

 markings ; a dot at base, and a small mark near base on costa, connected 

 along costal edge ; a dot on inner margin near base ; a mark very near 

 base and an inwardly oblique bar in disc at \, connected centrally by a lon- 

 gitudinal line ; an oblique bar from costa at \, forked at apex, not reaching 

 middle ; a short longitudinal mark beneath fold at -§-, anteriorly furcate ; a 

 short oblique bar in disc below middle, very shortly furcate beneath ; a 

 short sinuate oblique bar in disc beyond middle, furcate above, (in Southern 

 specimens connected centrally with preceding by a longitudinal line) ; all 

 these markings preceded in disc by tufts of raised scales ; a spot on costa 

 beyond middle, furcate at apex ; a sinuate dentate transverse bar in disc 

 about f ; a row of small spots along hindmargin and apical third of costa : 

 cilia pale green. Hindwings grey-whitish, posteriorly suffused with fuscous 

 grey, with an obscure darker central spot, and a dark fuscous interrupted 

 hindmarginal line ; cilia whitish-grey, becoming whitish-green round apex, 

 with a faint darker line. 



A beautiful insect, mimicking the colour of the long drooping lichens 

 on which it always sits, and on which the larva probably feeds ; the mark- 

 ings are not united to form complete transverse strigae, as in S. picarella. 

 Butler's huttonii is merely a bleached specimen. 



Hamilton, Christchurch, Dunedin, in December and January ; tolerably 

 common, and probably widely distributed. The slight difference in mark- 

 ing between forms from the North and South Islands is worthy of notice. 

 20. Sem. picarella, Walk. 



{(Ecophora picarella, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 699; Psecadia teras, Feld., Keis. Nov., PI. 



CXL., 28.) 



Major, alis ant. niveis, strigis tribus transversis contortis, signis duobus 

 posticis serieque punctorum marginis postici nigris ; post, griseis, disco 

 albido-suffuso. 



Male, female. — 22-28 mm. Head white. Palpi white, second joint with 

 basal third and a subapical ring, terminal joint with apex and a median 

 band black. Antennae dark fuscous, basal joint white at base. Thorax 

 white, anterior margin, a central arrowhead, and small posterior spot black. 

 Abdomen whitish-grey. Legs dark fuscous, median ring of tibiae and apex 

 of all joints whitish, posterior tibiae with whitish hairs above. Forewings 



