Meybiok. — On New Zealand Micvo-Lepidoptera, 97 



Otira Gorge, Castle Hill, Lake G-uyon, and Lake Wakatipu, in January 

 and February, from 1,500 to 3,000 feet; always on bare shingle, usually in 

 the bed of a mountain stream, but sometimes also in a road-way, flying a 

 short distance close to the ground and quickly settling again ; common 

 where it occurs. 



39. Scop, tetracycla, n. sp. 



Female. — 25 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax grey, densely irrorated with 

 white ; palpi 3, basal joint white. Antennae grey. Abdomen pale grey, 

 suffused with pale ochreous towards base. Legs white irrorated with 

 fuscous, tibiae and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. Forewings very elon- 

 gate, somewhat triangular, costa straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin straight, 

 slightly oblique ; ochreous-grey, densely irrorated with whitish ; lines 

 obsolete ; orbicular and claviform both round, whitish, black-margined ; 

 reniform 8-shaped, unusually oblique, whitish, obscurely black-margined : 

 cilia ochreous-grey mixed with whitish, with an obscure darker line. Hind- 

 wings If, p>ale fuscous-grey, hindmargin suffusedly darker ; cilia whitish, 

 with a fuscous line. 



Characterized by the obsolescence of the usual lines, whilst the spots 

 are all distinctly indicated, round, dark-margined. 



Christchurch and Lake Coleridge, in March ; two specimens. 

 40. Scop, inclistinctalis, Walk. 

 (Hypochalcia inclistinctalis, Walk., 48 ; Scoparia rakaiensis, Knaggs, Ent. Mo. Mag., iv., 80.) 



Male, female. — 23-25 mm. Head and thorax white, densely irrorated 

 with. dark grey. Palpi 3, dark grey mixed with white, basal joint white. 

 Antennae dark grey, obscurely annulated with white ; ciliations |. Abdo- 

 men whitish-ochreous, suffused with grey. Legs white, irrorated with 

 dark fuscous, tibiae and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. Forewings very 

 elongate, tolerably triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, hind- 

 margin slightly sinuate, rather oblique; white, very finely irrorated with 

 blackish or dark fuscous ; indications of a white line before first line ; first 

 line indistinct, white, posteriorly blackish-margined, rectangularly bent 

 above middle, near inner margin turned more obliquely outwards ; orbicular 

 obliquely oval, hardly indicated except by two or three blackish marginal 

 dots ; claviform small, oval, blackish-margined ; reniform 8-shaped, oblique, 

 obscurely blackish-margined ; second line white, tolerably distinct, ob- 

 scurely dark-margined ; terminal space suffused with blackish towards anal 

 angle ; subterminal line broad, cloudy, whitish, interrupted, both portions 

 touching second line ; a row of blackish dots on veins before hindmargin : 

 cilia whitish, with two blackish-grey lines. Hindwings If, pale whitish- 

 ochreous, suffused with light greyish ; lunule and postmedian line obscurely 

 darker ; a moderately broad suffused dark fuscous hindmarginal band ; cilia 

 white, with a dark grey line. 

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