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tibiae and tarsi banded with black. Forewings elongate, triangular, costa 

 slightly arched, apex rounded, hindmargin slightly sinuate, somewhat 

 oblique ; light ochreous, sometimes mixed with reddish-ochreous ; a black 

 white-margined triangular spot on costa at base ; first line slender, white, 

 very oblique, almost straight, somewhat indented ; a broad black median 

 band, narrowing gradually downwards, bounded anteriorly by first line, and 

 posteriorly by a nearly straight line from beyond middle of costa to § of 

 inner margin, triangularly indented below middle ; space between this band 

 and second line white ; reniform pale ochreous, surrounded by a few grey 

 scales ; second line white, anteriorly suffused, margined with a few black 

 scales in curve and a small black mark on costa ; subterminal obsolete or 

 somewhat whitish, anteriorly suffusedly margined with grey ; a small black 

 triangular spot on middle of hindmargin ; a row of black dots before hind- 

 margin : cilia shining grey. Hindwings 1^-, pale grey, postmedian line and 

 hindmargin suffusedly darker grey ; cilia white or whitish, with two grey 

 lines. 



Conspicuously distinct from any other. 



Wellington, Castle Hill, Mount Hutt, Dunedin, and Lake Wakatipu 

 (1,000 feet), amongst bush in December and January ; several specimens. 

 72. Xer. nomeutis, n. sp. 

 Male, female. — 17-21 mm. Head and thorax dark grey, mixed with 

 white and black. Palpi 2f , blackish mixed with white, basal joint white. 

 Antennae dark grey, in male strongly pubescent, ciliations 1. Abdomen 

 grey or dark grey, irrorated With white. Legs white irrorated with dark 

 fuscous, tibiae and tarsi banded with black. Forewings somewhat elongate, 

 triangular, in female more oblong, costa hardly arched, apex rounded, hind- 

 margin rounded, rather oblique ; greyish-ochreous or fuscous, densely irror- 

 ated with white, and with a few black scales ; a suffused blackish spot in 

 middle of base, and one on inner margin near base ; first line whitish, 

 obscure, posteriorly blackish-margined, oblique, hardly curved, slightly 

 indented ; orbicular very small, round, black, sometimes pale-centred, 

 detached ; claviform very small, black, detached ; reniform 8-shaped, black- 

 margined except above and beneath, touching a blackish suffusion on middle 

 of costa ; second line whitish, anteriorly blackish-margined, rather abruptly 

 angulated above middle, indented beneath costa ; subterminal whitish, very 

 obscure, touching second line in middle : cilia grey, basal third barred with 

 dark grey and white, tips whitish. Hindwings 1J, fuscous-grey, hindmargin 

 suffusedly darker ; cilia whitish, with two suffused grey lines. 



A peculiar species, in markings approaching more the typical forms of 

 Scoparia ; differs also from the other species, in which the male is known, 

 by the structure of the antennae, 



