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costa by a sharply-defined moderate triangular black spot ; orbicular round, 

 pale, broadly black-margined, touching apex of costal spot ; claviform 

 round, upper half margined with black, lower half obsolete, detached ; a 

 very small dark fuscous spot on costa beyond middle, between which and 

 first line the costa is narrowly suffused with fuscous ; reniform large, 

 double, shaped like two adjacent figures of 8, both irregularly black- 

 margined, adjacent margins confluent ; second line pale, anteriorly dark- 

 margined, forming a very small blackish spot on costa ; terminal space 

 suffused with brownish-ochreous ; subterminal line cloudy, ochreous- 

 whitish, somewhat interrupted, not touching second line ; hindmargin 

 suffusedly blackish, with a row of ochreous-whitish marks : cilia pale 

 whitish-ochreous, with a well-defined dark grey line and very faint grey 

 posterior line. Hindwings 1J, very pale whitish grey, central lunule 

 obscurely indicated, postmedian line and a narrow hindmarginal suffusion 

 distinct, darker grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish, with a distinct grey line. 



A distinct species, characterized by the sharply defined black costal 

 markings, double reniform, and relatively long antennal ciliations. 

 Akaroa and Dunedin, amongst forest, in January ; two specimens. 



22. Scop, cymatias, n. sp. 

 Male, female. — 21-22 mm. Head and thorax fuscous-grey, irrorated with 

 white. Palpi 2J, dark fuscous, somewhat mixed with white, basal joint 

 white. Antennae grey ; ciliations §. Abdomen light grey, segmental margins 

 whitish. Legs whitish, irrorated with dark fuscous, tibiae and tarsi banded 

 with dark fuscous. Forewings rather elongate, triangular, costa gently 

 arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin oblique, distinctly sinuate ; fuscous grey, 

 densely mixed with white and irrorated with black ; some very obscure 

 small dark spots towards base ; first line very obscure, white, somewhat 

 curved and indented, posteriorly slightly dark-margined beneath, on costal 

 third margined by an oblique oblong blackish streak which conceals 

 orbicular ; claviform small, roundish, blackish, detached ; reniform 

 8-shaped, whitish, obscurely black-margined, connected with a small dark 

 suffusion on costa ; second line whitish, ill-defined, finely dentate through- 

 out, hardly sinuate, anteriorly slightly dark-margined, forming a small 

 blackish spot on costa ; subterminal cloudy, whitish, finely dentate, inter- 

 rupted above middle, apex of lower portion touching second line ; an 

 obscure hindmarginal row of whitish marks : cilia whitish, with a dark 

 fuscous interrupted subbasal, and grey posterior line. Hindwings lj, very 

 pale whitish-grey, slightly ochreous-tinged, central lunule indistinct, post- 

 median line and a slender hindmarginal suffusion distinctly darker grey ; 

 cilia whitish, with a dark grey line, slightly interrupted. 



A very obscure species, best indicated by the fine dentation of the second 

 and subterminal lines. 



