Meyrick. — On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. Ill 



white interrupted hindmarginal line : cilia whitish, barred with dark grey, 

 with a grey line. Hindwings 1|, very pale whitish-ochreous, greyish- 

 tinged ; apex and upper part of hindrnargin rather narrowly grey ; cilia 

 white, base whitish-ochreous, with an interrupted grey line. 



This species may perhaps be transferred to Tetraprosopus when the male 

 is known, since it agrees with that genus and differs from the other species 

 of Xeroscopa in the extension of the discal hairs of hindwings almost to 

 hindrnargin ; but it so closely resembles X. petrina that it seems better left 

 here until then. 



Mount Macedon, Victoria, in December (Mr. G. H. Eaynor) ; Mount 

 Lofty, South Australia (Mr. E. Guest) ; two specimens. 

 * 62. Xer. encausta, n. sp. 



Male. — 27 mm. Head and thorax fuscous-grey, irrorated with white, 

 with a dark fuscous lateral stripe from eye to beyond middle of thorax. 

 Palpi 2f, dark fuscous, apex and basal joint white. Antennae grey, cilia- 

 tions ^. Abdomen whitish-ochreous. Legs white, irrorated with fuscous, 

 tibise and tarsi banded with fuscous. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa 

 moderately and evenly arched, apex rounded, hindrnargin obliquely rounded ; 

 fuscous-grey, densely irrorated with white ; a black median streak, margined 

 with fuscous, from base to near middle of disc ; first line obsolete ; a fine 

 black streak, acutely attenuated anteriorly, in disc above middle from i— f , 

 posteriorly coalescing with a fuscous longitudinal bar which extends from 

 beyond middle of disc to middle of hindrnargin ; from upper margin of 

 discal streak beyond middle proceeds a short irregular strigula, representing 

 reniform ; veins posteriorly more or less distinctly marked with black, on 

 fuscous bar strongly lined ; second line very obscure, white, posteriorly 

 suffusedly dark-margined towards costa : cilia whitish, basal third broadly 

 barred with dark grey, and with a grey posterior line. Hindwings 1^, very 

 pale whitish-ochreous, greyish-tinged, apex and upper part of hindrnargin 

 rather narrowly fuscous-grey ; cilia whitish, with a grey line. 



Differs from all by the more arched costa of the forewings, and black 

 basal, median, and posterior streaks, appearing to form parts of a single 

 broken streak. 



Mount Wellington, Tasmania, at 1,200 feet, on a tree-trunk in December ; 

 one specimen. 



63. Xer. petrina, n. sp. 



Male. — 30-31 mm.; female. — 24 mm. Head and thorax dark grey, irror- 

 ated with white. Palpi 3, dark fuscous, apex and basal joint white. Antennae 

 grey ; ciliations %. Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous. Legs white, irrorated 

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

 very elongate, triangular, costa slightly arched, apex obtuse, hindrnargin 



