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Arthur's Pass (2,500 feet) and Mount Hutt, in January ; three speci- 

 mens. 



23. Scop, microphthalma, n. sp. 



Male. — 15-16 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax blackish-grey, irro- 

 rated with white ; palpi 21, basal joint white ; thorax with a small pos- 

 terior ochreous-yellow spot. Antennas dark grey ; ciliations J. Abdomen 

 fuscous-grey. Legs dark fuscous, irrorated with white, apex of joints 

 white. Forewings triangular, costa slightly arched, apex rounded, hind- 

 margin slightly rounded, rather oblique ; blackish, finely irrorated with 

 white ; a small ochreous-yellow spot near base, followed by a faint whitish 

 transverse line ; first line whitish, slender, ill-defined, slightly curved, 

 posteriorly indistinctly dark-margined ; orbicular and claviform both 

 circular, ochreous-yellow, dark-margined, touching first line ; reniform 

 8-shaped, ochreous-yellow, black-margined, each half containing a white 

 dot, the lower one larger ; a small ill-defined whitish costal spot above 

 reniform; second line whitish, ill-defined, obscurely dark-margined, touching 

 similar subterminal line in middle : cilia whitish, with two cloudy dark 

 grey lines, and obscurely barred with grey. Hindwings l£, fuscous-grey, 

 becoming darker posteriorly ; cilia grey, with a darker line, tips whitish. 



Easily recognized by the ochreous-yellow spots, and white dots in 

 reniform. 



Christchurch in March, and Lake Wakatipu (1,000 feet) in December, 

 amongst bush ; two specimens. 



24. Scop, hemicycla, n. sp. 



Female. — 17 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-fuscous. Palpi 2f, dark 

 fuscous mixed with white, basal joint white. Antennas dark fuscous. 

 Abdomen grey, terminal segment very elongate, ovipositor long. Legs grey 

 irrorated with whitish. Forewings elongate-oblong, slightly dilated, costa 

 hardly arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin rather oblique, slightly rounded ; 

 fuscous, with scattered pale ochreous-yellowish scales ; a cloudy blackish 

 spot on inner margin near base, above which is a line of whitish scales ; a 

 longitudinal median black streak from base to ^ ; a strong semicircular black 

 streak from costa at J, passing through middle of disc and returning to costa 

 at f , obscurely margined beneath with whitish, the included space also 

 irrorated with whitish ; subterminal line indicated by a few whitish scales : 

 cilia whitish-fuscous with two cloudy darker lines, tips whitish. Hindwings 

 If, fuscous-grey, becoming dark fuscous towards hindmargin ; cilia as in 

 forewings. 



Conspicuously distinct by the semicircular black streak excluding central 

 third of costa. 



Arthur's Pass (3,000 feet) in January ; one specimen. 



