Meyrick. — On New Zealand Micro -Lepidoptera. 95 



at base, apex extended to form a smaller spot, but not quite reaching inner 

 margin ; inner margin beneath this whitish-ochreous ; a broad cloudy white 

 line near first line, more or less confluent with it above ; first line broad, 

 cloudy, white, oblique, hardly curved, rather irregular, posteriorly blackish- 

 margined, forming a cloudy triangular blackish spot towards costa ; a pale 

 ochreous-yellowish streak along submedian fold from basal spot to anal 

 blotch ; orbicular roundish, whitish-ochreous, broadly b ack-margined, 

 detached; claviform small, oblique, black, sometimes pale-centred, detached; 

 reniform 8-shaped, whitish-ochreous, black-margined, connected with costa 

 by a small blackish spot, between which and second line is a whitish 

 suffusion ; space between orbicular and reniform, and between reniform and 

 second line, clothed with peculiarly appressed brassy prismatic scales, 

 appearing as though transparent; second line broad, white, blackish- 

 margined ; terminal space wholly suffused with black ; subterminal line 

 broad, white,' more or less pale ochreous-yellowish on veins, generally 

 interrupted above middle, apex of lower portion touching second line ; 

 a hindmarginal row of white dots : cilia grey, with two darker lines, basal 

 third slightly barred with whitish, tips whitish. Hindwings H, whitish- 

 ochreous, partially irrorated with grey ; lunule, postmedian line, and a 

 tolerably defined hindmarginal band rather dark grey ; cilia ochreous- 

 whitish, with two dark grey lines. 



A fine species, differing from all others by the peculiar prismatic spots 

 preceding and following reniform. 



Hamilton, Palmerston, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch, and Otira 

 Gorge, from December to March, usually near forest; common where it 

 occurs, but I have never taken it except at lamps, and always females only ; 

 I have seen one male, taken by Mr. E. W. Fereday, and perhaps sixty 

 females. 



37. Scoj). submarginalis, Walk. 



(Hypochalciasabmarginalis, Walk., 48; Nephopteryx maoriella, ib., Suppl., 1720.) 



Male, female. — 21-25 mm. Head and thorax whitish, mixed with pale 

 ochreous, densely irrorated with grey or dark fuscous. Palpi 3, dark fuscous 

 mixed with whitish, basal joint white. Antennae grey ; ciliations £. 

 Abdomen ochreous-whitish suffused with grey, more ochreous towards base. 

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

 fuscous. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, 

 hindmargin very faintly sinuate, rather oblique ; ochreous or ochreous- 

 brown, more or less densely irrorated with black, and sprinkled irregularly 

 with whitish ; a short obscure blackish line from base of costa ; a cloudy 

 whitish line near before and partially confluent with first line, sometimes 

 obsolete ; first line white, cloudy, posteriorly black-margined, somewhat 



