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grey lines. Hindwings If, very pale whitish-grey, slightly ochreous-tinged ; 

 postmedian Hue and hindrnargin suffusedly darker ; cilia white, with a faint 

 grey line. 



Especially recognizable by the conspicuous dark claviform, and ter- 

 mination of dark margin of second line before inner margin, but the inner 

 margin is not white as in S. steropcca. 



Ghristchurch and Lake Wakatipu (1,200 feet), on dry grassy hill slopes, 

 in October, December, and April ; six specimens. 

 54. Scop, elaplira, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 12-14 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed with 

 whitish, shoulders narrowly suffused with dark fuscous. Palpi 4|-, dark 

 fuscous, white above and beneath. Antennae whitish-ochreous ; in male 

 joints serrate with apical teeth only, ciliations 1. Abdomen grey-whitish. 

 Legs white, anterior pair suffused with dark fuscous. Forewings very 

 elongate, narrow, triangular, costa straight, apex round-pointed, hind- 

 margin slightly sinuate, very oblique ; pale brownish-ochreous, irregularly 

 irrorated with white on veins, and generally with scattered dark fuscous 

 scales ; base of costa rather suffused with dark fuscous ; some blackish 

 scales on submedian fold before first line ; first line hardly whitish, pos- 

 teriorly margined with dark fuscous, rather strongly curved ; orbicular 

 small, linear, black, touching first line ; claviform smaller, similar, gener- 

 ally indistinct ; reniform dot-like, blackish ; second line obscurely whitish, 

 anteriorly dark-margined, somewhat curved above middle, otherwise 

 • straight ; a row of blackish dots on hindrnargin ; cilia whitish, with two 

 fuscous-grey lines. Hindwings H, grey-whitish ; lunule, postmedian line 

 and hindrnargin grey ; cilia white. 



Distinguished by its small size, sharply triangular wings, and fragile 

 appearance, with very simple markings ; the palpi here attain their greatest 

 length. 



Palmerston (Wanganui), and Christchurch, chiefly at lamps, in March ; 

 seven specimens. 



55. Scop, paltomacha, n. sp. 



Male. — 22-24 mm. ; female. — 17 mm. Head whitish, sometimes mixed 

 with greyish- ochreous. Palpi 3, dark grey, apex of maxillary and basal 

 joint of labial white. Antennas grey ; ciliations f . Thorax fuscous-grey, 

 slightly mixed with whitish, with a whitish anterior spot. Abdomen 

 whitish-grey. Legs whitish, tibise and tarsi suffused with grey. Forewings 

 very elongate, triangular, costa almost straight, apex round-pointed, hind- 

 margin straight, oblique ; light fuscous, irregularly irrorated with whitish ; 

 veins distinctly lined with blackish ; a whitish dot in disc beyond middle, 

 margined above with blackish : cilia whitish, with two fuscous-grey lines. 

 Hindwings If, grey-whitish ; cilia white, with a light grey line. 



