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fuscous ; a rather broad slightly curved oblique transverse fascia from £ of 

 costa to i of inner margin, and a second from middle of costa to | of inner 

 margin ; a transverse somewhat narrower perpendicular spot from costa at 

 f, reaching more than half across wing, narrowed beneath, almost touching 

 second fascia ; a streak along hindmargin : cilia dark purple-grey. Hind- 

 wings and cilia dark fuscous. 



Allied to the preceding, but very distinct ; it is a striking and handsome 

 species. 



Wellington, in December ; one specimen at rest on a fence. 

 14. Cremnogenes, n. g. 

 Head smooth, sidetufts small, loosely spreading. Antennae in male 

 moderate or rather stout, with whorls of cilia at joints or closely set over 

 whole surface (1-2), basal joint rather elongate, with pecten. Palpi mode- 

 rately long, second joint somewhat exceeding base of antennae, with dense 

 appressed scales, slightly rough beneath towards apex, terminal joint 

 shorter than second, slender, curved. Thorax smooth. Forewings mode- 

 rate, apex pointed, hindmargin oblique. Hindwings somewhat narrower 

 than forewings, elongate-ovate, hindmargin rounded, cilia f. Abdomen 

 rather elongate, stout. Posterior tibiae clothed with long fine hairs. Fore- 

 wings with vein 7 to costa, 2 from near angle of cell. Hindwings normal. 



Closely allied to (Ecophora, from which it differs in the ciliations of the 

 antennae in male ; these are not arranged in a single series, but either in 

 whorls at the joints (G. oxyina), when they are also proportionately longer, 

 or closely set over the entire surface {G. aphrontis). I think these two 

 forms may be justly included in the same genus, at least for the present ; 

 besides these I have probably two other species of the genus, which I 

 cannot venture yet to describe. 



54. Cremn. oxyina, n. sp. 

 Minor, alis ant. M. saturate fuscis, ferrugineo-mixtis, F. rufo-ochreis, 

 fusco-mixtis, interdum striga dorsi indentata paUida, signo sub plica posito 

 punctoque disci nigricantibus ; post, saturate fuscis. 



Male, female.— 13-15 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, and abdomen 

 dark fuscous, slightly ochreous-tinged ; thorax with a small sharply-defined 

 ochreous-whitish lateral spot. Legs dark fuscous-grey. Forewings in 

 male elongate, in female rather shorter, costa moderately arched, apex 

 pointed, hindmargin slightly sinuate, extremely oblique ; dark fuscous, 

 mixed and suffused with reddish-ochreous or ferruginous, in female almost 

 wholly reddish-ochreous, becoming deeper along fold ; an ochreous-whitish, 

 often indistinct or obsolete, streak along inner margin from base to f, 

 attenuated posteriorly, upper margin deeply dentate before middle, indenta- 

 tion filled with a small black spot ; a dark fuscous dot in disc beyond 



