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elongate, triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin 

 oblique, faintly sinuate ; white, mixed with grey, and coarsely irrorated 

 with black ; a thick interrupted obscure blackish streak from base of costa ; 

 first line white, obscure, somewhat curved, sharply indented, posteriorly 

 blackish-margined ; orbicular round, whitish, blackish-margined ; claviform 

 roundish, moderate or large, blackish, often suffused, tolerably detached ; 

 reniform 8-shaped, white, blackish-margined, connected with a small 

 blackish triangular spot on costa ; second line white, tolerably distinct, 

 anteriorly dark-margined ; terminal space wholly dark, except moderate 

 tolerably defined subterminal line, entire or interrupted, touching second 

 line in middle ; a hindmarginal row of white dots : cilia whitish, obscurely 

 barred with grey, with an interrupted blackish and posterior grey line. 

 Hindwings \\, pale whitish-grey, slightly ochreous-tinged, in female rather 

 greyer, postmedian line and hindmargin obscurely darker grey ; cilia 

 whitish, with a grey line spotted with darker. 



A dull, obscure-looking species, but with the reniform very clearly 

 defined. 



Auckland, Hamilton, Christchurcb, Nelson, Otira Eiver, Dunedin, and 

 Lake "Wakatipu ; common in forest, in December, January, March, and 

 April. Near Lake Wakatipu I took one specimen at an elevation of 4,000 

 feet. 



16. Scop, chlamydota, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 13-14 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-ochreous 

 suffused with black ; palpi 2. Antenna? greyish-ochreous ; ciliations ^. 

 Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs ochreous-white, tibia? and tarsi banded 

 with dark fuscous. Forewings triangular, costa slightly arched, apex 

 rounded, hindmargin straight, oblique ; ochreous-whitish ; basal half, 

 bounded by a line parallel to hindmargin, suffused with blackish, except on 

 an oval ochreous spot near middle of base ; a moderately broad fascia-like 

 reddish-ochreous suffusion rather beyond and parallel to posterior edge of 

 blackish patch ; an irregular reddish-ochreous suffusion towards middle of 

 hindmargin ; a rather small triangular blackish spot on costa before apex, 

 and some blackish scales on anal angle : cilia ochreous-whitish, mixed 

 with reddish ochreous beneath and blackish above apex. Hindwings 1J, 

 whitish ; postmedian line and apical suffusion faintly grey ; cilia whitish. 



A peculiar and very distinct species. 



Arthur's Pass (3,000 feet), in January ; three specimens. 

 17. Scop, miniisculalis, Walk. 

 (Scoparia minusculalis, Walk., Suppl., 1503.) 



Male, female, — 17-19 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax ochreous-fuscous s 

 mixed with whitish-ochreous and dark fuscous ; palpi 2|, basal joint white. 



