Meyrick. — On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera* 119 



Allied to X. octophora, but distinguished by the partial dark suffusion, 

 the incomplete reniforrn, without white centre, and the dark lunule and 

 margin of hindwings. 



Arthur's Pass (4,500 feet), Mount Hutt, and Lake Wakatipu, in 

 January ; four specimens. 



77. Xer. leucogramma, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 21 mm. Head, palpi, antennas, thorax, and abdomen 

 blackish-fuscous ; palpi 2-|, basal joint white. Legs ochreous-whitish, 

 irrorated with dark fuscous, tibiae and tarsi banded with blackish. Fore- 

 wings somewhat elongate, triangular, costa gently arched, apex rounded, 

 hindmargin rather oblique, slightly rounded ; blackish-fuscous, with a few 

 white scales ; first line white, sharply defined, slightly curved, not oblique, 

 not indented ; orbicular and claviform very obsoletely darker ; reniforrn 

 almost obsolete, 8-shaped, obscurely pale-centred ; second line slender, 

 white, sharply defined, terminating hardly before anal angle, and therefore 

 much less inwardly oblique than usual, curved in middle ; subterminal 

 indicated by a few white scales : cilia dark fuscous, with a blackish basal 

 line, tips whitish. Hindwings \\, in male light grey, lunule, postmedian 

 line and hindmargin darker ; in female dark fuscous-grey, lunule and apex 

 darker ; cilia grey with two dark gvey lines, tips whitish. 



Extremely distinct from all other species by the blackish ground-colour, 

 slender white lines, and peculiar position of second line. 



Mount Hutt, in January (Mr. E. W. Fereday) ; two specimens. 



78. Appendix. 



The following specific names are not quoted above ; viz. : — 



(1.) Scoparia linealis, Walk. Suppl., 1503. The specimen which I 

 suppose to be Walker's type I did not determine, and it is perhaps not 

 recognizable ; with it was placed a small specimen of Scoparia submarginalis, 

 Walk. 



(2.) Nephopteryx favilliferella, Walk. Suppl., 1719. The type is unset, 

 and therefore not generically recognizable ; it is certainly either a Scoparia 

 or a Xeroscopa, but it seems hardly possible to assert anything more. 



(3.) Scoparia objurgalis, Gn., 425, pi. x., 10, and Scoparia australialis, 

 Gn., 426, appear to me unidentifiable at present; the latter is, if correctly 

 described, probably new to me, the former might possibly be S. exhibitalis, 

 Walk. 



In the following indices the numbers refer to those prefixed to the 

 names : — 



Index of Geneea. 



Nyctarcha, Meyr 1. Tetraprosopus, Butl. . . 3. 



Scoparia, Hw. . . . . 2 S Xeroscopa, Meyr. . . . . 4., 



