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Wellington, Arthur's Pass (1,600 to 2,600 feet), Bealey Eiver (2,100 feet), 

 Mount Hutt, Dunedin, and Lake Wakatipu (1,000 feet), from December to 

 February, frequenting rocks ; common. 



65. Xer. astragalota, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 27 mm. Head and antennas ochreous white. Palpi 2-J, 

 dark fuscous, apex broadly and basal joint white. Thorax ochreous-white, 

 somewhat irrorated with fuscous on sides, with a short irregular black 

 lateral mark from anterior margin. Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Legs 

 white, irrorated with fuscous, tibiae and tarsi banded with dark fuscous. 

 Forewings very elongate, triangular, costa hardly arched, apex round- 

 pointed, hindmargin somewhat sinuate, hardly oblique ; light ochreous, 

 almost wholly suffused with white ; markings black, somewhat suffused 

 with reddish fuscous ; a short very oblique streak from base of costa, 

 reaching ■§• ; posterior margin of first line indicated by an oblique narrow 

 triangular spot from costa, uniting with orbicular, which is elongate, linear ; 

 reniform quadrate, concave-sided, connected by a fuscous spot with a small 

 spot on costa ; second line obscurely pale, anteriorily somewhat dark- 

 margined, with a few black scales on veins, and a small black spot on 

 costa ; a light fuscous triangular spot on middle of hindmargin ; a hind- 

 marginal row of very ill-defined blackish dots : cilia white, basal third 

 barred with grey, and with a posterior grey line. Hindwings If, pale 

 whitish-grey, ochreous-tinged ; lunule, postmedian line, and apex greyer ; 

 cilia whitish. 



Immediately known by the pale colouring, and the conspicuous black 

 subquadrate spot which represents the reniform. 



Mount Hutt, in December and January (Mr. E. W. Fereday) ; several 

 specimens. 



66. Xer. rotuella. 

 (Crambus rottiellus, Feld., Reis. Nov., pi. cxxxvii., 30.) 



Female. — 28-29 mm. Head and thorax light greyish-ochreous, some- 

 what mixed with whitish, with a narrow black lateral stripe from eye to 

 middle of thorax. Palpi 3J, light greyish-ochreous, irrorated with dark 

 fuscous, apex and basal joint white. Antennas, abdomen, and legs pale 

 greyish-ochreous. Forewings very elongate, triangular, costa slightly 

 arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin sinuate, rather oblique ; light 

 greyish-ochreous, beneath costa irrorated with white ; a sharply-defined 

 black median streak from base of costa to disc at about ^, margined with 

 clear yellowish-ochreous, acutely attenuated ; first line obsolete ; a sharply- 

 defined black streak, margined with clear yellowish-ochreous, in disc above 

 middle, extending from ^— §, upper margin somewhat protuberant near 

 anterior extremity, and terminating posteriorly in ' an acutely trifurcate 

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