Meyrick. — On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 37 



Male, female. — llf-13 mm. Head and thorax pale grey mixed with 

 darker. Palpi whitish-grey, second joint externally densely irrorated with 

 blackish, terminal joint with two or three slender blackish rings below 

 middle. Antenna? dark grey. Abdomen grey. Legs dark fuscous, central 

 and apical ring of middle tibiae, hairs of posterior tibiae, and apex of all 

 tarsal joints whitish. Forewings elongate, costa moderately arched, apex 

 rounded, hindmargin very obliquely rounded ; whitish-grey, densely and 

 irregularly irrorated with dark grey, tending to form cloudy very indistinct 

 patches on costa at \, middle, and f , leaving interspaces somewhat paler ; 

 an indistinct cloudy dark fuscous spot on fold at \, a cloudy spot on anal 

 angle, sometimes preceded and followed by a smaller spot, a dot in disc 

 before middle and beyond that on fold, and another in disc beyond middle, 

 all very indistinct and sometimes obsolete : cilia whitish-grey, with several 

 rows of dark grey points. Hindwings light grey ; cilia whitish-grey. 



Nearly allied to (E. contextella, and having a similar mottled appearance, 

 but readily known by its smaller size, slightly narrower wings, general grey 

 tints, and especially the grey head. 



Castle Hill (2,500 feet), in January ; beaten in great abundance from 

 Fagus solandri. 



40. 03c. contextella, Walk. 

 (Gelechia contextella, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 656.) 



Minor, alis ant. canis, griseo-sparsis, fascia ad basim, altera post 

 medium, maculis costa? duabus, lineaque postica sinuata saturate griseis, 

 striga obliqua sub plica posita signoque disci arcuato nigris ; post, dilute 

 griseis ; capite ochreo-albo. 



Male, female. — 13-15 mm. Head ochreous-white. Palpi white, second 

 joint irrorated with dark fuscous except at apex, terminal joint with a cloudy 

 dark fuscous submedian ring. Antennae grey. Thorax whitish or ochreous- 

 white, anterior margin suffused with dark fuscous. Abdomen whitish- 

 ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, middle tibia? with central and apical rings, 

 hairs of posterior tibia?, and apex of all tarsal joints ochreous-whitish. 

 Forewings moderate, costa moderately arched, apex rounded, hindmargin 

 very obliquely rounded ; white, irregularly irrorated with fuscous-grey ; a 

 cloudy dark grey fascia from base of costa, and a second from costa at J, 

 confluent in middle and extending almost to inner margin at %, mixed with 

 ochreous at apex, and margined posteriorly by an oblique blackish streak 

 below middle, sometimes connected with a blackish dot in disc before 

 middle ; a cloudy dark grey fascia from rather beyond middle of costa to 

 anal angle, containing an ochreous partially blackish-circled spot in disc, 

 and mixed with ochreous beneath ; a small blackish mark on inner margin 

 before this fascia, separated from it by a white line ; a cloudy dark grey 



