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pointed at apex ; extreme costal edge whitish : cilia pale grey, tips whitish. 

 Hindwings grey, becoming dark grey posteriorly, costa sivfTusedly yellow- 

 whitish ; cilia yellow-whitish, with an indistinct greyish line. 



Female. — 22-23 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax yellowish-white. An- 

 tennae whitish. Abdomen and legs white, anterior and middle pair ligbt 

 ochreous. Forewings as in male, but hindmargin straighter ; whitish- 

 yellowisb, interspersed with pale-greyish ; costa sufhisedly white : cilia 

 white, base whitish-yellowish. Hindwings white, towards inner margin 

 faintly suffused with very pale greyish; cilia white. 



Allied to H. anea, but smaller, and distinguished in both sexes by the 

 absence of yellow in the hindwings ; in the male also by the conspicuous 

 dark costal stripe ; in the female by the pale yellowish forewings. 



Arthur's Pass ; four specimens (1 male, 3 females) taken in a grassy place 

 at about 4,500 feet, in January. 



Ctenopseustis, n. g. 



Thorax smooth. Antennae in male shortly ciliated. Palpi moderate, 

 porrected, second joint roughly scaled. Forewings in male with strong 

 costal fold. Hindwings broader than forewings, lower median vein with 

 strong basal pecten. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 and 8 separate, 7 to hind- 

 margin. Hindwings with 8 veins, 3 and 4 from a point, 5 approximated to 

 4 at base, 6 and 7 from a point. Abdomen in male with genital uncus well 

 developed. 



Cten. obliquana, Walk. 

 {Peedisca obliquana, Walk. ; Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1882, 60.) 



Professor Fernald assures me that the genital uncus of the male (the 

 value of which as a divisional character he has been the first to discover in 

 this group) is never developed in the Grapholithida, and that this species (of 

 which I sent him specimens) should therefore be included in the Tortricida, 

 notwithstanding the pectination of the lower median vein, this latter struc- 

 ture being indeed also found in (Enectra, which is certainly referable to the 

 Tortricidce. In this view I quite concur, and therefore place the species here, 

 which involves the formation of a new genus for its reception as above, 

 since it differs from (Enectra by the costal fold and separations of veins 7 

 and 8 of the forewings, and from the rest of the family by the basal pecten 

 of the hindwings. 



Epalxiphora, Meyr. 



The characters given for this genus are in part quite erroneous ; this is 

 in some measure due to my having mistaken my single specimen for a male, 

 whilst it proves to be a female ; I have since obtained several specimens of 

 both sexes, and therefore give a fresh and more correct characterization of 

 the genus, with some additions to the specific description, as the species is 



