Metrics. — On Nevi) Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera; 107 



Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, Lake Wakatipu, and 

 Invercargill , probably generally distributed, on dry grassy slopes in Decem- 

 ber and January ; very common. Butler has identified a Chilian species 

 with this ; I cannot vouch for the identification. 



58. Scop. panojyJa, n. sp. 



Male.— 31 mm. ; female. — 25 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous, 

 mixed with whitish-ochreous, Avith a dark ochreous-fuscous stripe from eye 

 along inner edge of patagia to extremity. Palpi 2^-3, ochreous-fuscous, 

 mixed with dark fuscous, above and on basal joint white. Antennas 

 whitish-ochreous ; dilations -|. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs light 

 ochreous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa straight, apex rounded, 

 hiudmargin oblique, somewhat sinuate ; brownish-ochreous, suffusedly irror- 

 ated with white on a broad streak along costa, a broad sinuate streak from 

 middle of disc to hindmargiu beneath apex, and less distinctly along inner 

 margin ; a narrow black streak from base along submedian fold to middle ; 

 a blackish slightly curved linear streak from above extremity of tins to 

 reniform, which is represented by a short oblique blackish mark ; veins 

 between apex and anal angle posteriorly marked with blackish streaks, 

 except on white suffusion, not reaching hiudmargin except at apex ; a hind- 

 marginal row of blackish dots : cilia whitish, with two fuscous lines. 

 Hindwings If, grey-whitish, with a rather narrow hindmarginal band 

 somewhat darker ; cilia white. 



Separated from its allies by its large size, and somewhat curved 

 irregular discal streak, which is not placed to form a continuation of 

 the basal streak ; the female is more strongly and sharply marked than the 

 male. 



Mount Hutt, in January ; several specimens taken by Mr. E. W. 

 Fereday. 



59. Scop, trivirgata, Feld. 

 {Crambus trivirgatus, Feld., Eeis. Nov., pi. cxxxvii., 29.) 



Male, female. — 16-23 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, often 

 becoming white above, with a blackish-fuscous stripe from eye along inner 

 edge of patagia to extremity. Palpi 4, whitish-ochreous, mixed with dark 

 fuscous, apex of maxillary and basal joint of labial white. Antennas dark 

 grey ; ciliations f . Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs ochreous-whitish. 

 Forewings very elongate, triangular, in female sometimes very narrow, costa 

 straight, apex round-pointed, hiudmargin sinuate, oblique or very oblique ; 

 whitish-ochreous, veins obscurely lined with white ; a moderate straight 

 blackish-fuscous median streak from base to apex, interrupted by a very 

 oblique narrow bar before middle, and more or less attenuated at f ; a 

 blackish-fuscous longitudinal wedge-shaped mark above anal angle, not 



