28 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Occurs at Hamilton, Cambridge, Christchurch, Askburton, and at the 

 foot of Mount Hutt, from January to March, generally in abundance ; it is 

 probably universally distributed. 



Prof. Zeller kindly forwarded to me his unpublished figures of the 

 specimens from which his descriptions quoted above were taken, enabling 

 me to decide that they were all truly referable to varieties of this 

 species. 



12. Gr. flexuosellus, Dbld. 

 {Crambus flexuosellus, Dbld., Dieff. New Zealand, Vol. II., 289 ; Feld., Eeise der Novara, 



PI. CXXXVIL, 32.) 



Male, Female. — 20-24 mm. Head and palpi rather dark ochreous- 

 fuscous ; labial palpi moderate, white beneath. Antennae fuscous-grey. 

 Thorax ochreous grey or light greyish-fuscous. Abdomen whitish-grey - 

 ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous, more or less wholly suffused with dark 

 fuscous. Forewings moderate, somewhat dilated posteriorly, costa gently 

 arched, very slightly sinuate in middle, apex obtuse, hindmargin little 

 oblique, slightly sinuate ; rather light greyish-fuscous, spriDkled with dark 

 fuscous, costal space above white streak dark fuscous ; a well-defined 

 straight moderately broad longitudinal white streak above middle from base 

 to hindmargin immediately beneath apex, upper edge very near costa on 

 basal ■§, thence twice sinuate to apex, lower edge twice irregularly dentate 

 beyond middle ; an indistinct dark spot on lower edge before middle, and a 

 dark fuscous spot in first indentation, indicating first transverse line ; 

 second transverse line tolerably distinct, dark fuscous, closely but indistinctly 

 dentate, from costa at f to inner margin at -f , angulated outwards on lower 

 edge of white streak, obsolete on costa, where it is often followed by a 

 suffused ochreous mark ; a slender dark fuscous hindmarginal line ; three 

 or four minute black dots on hindmargin below middle : cilia shining-grey, 

 with a dark-grey line near base, and a white basal line on upper half, pro- 

 duced into a white bar at apex. Hindwings dull whitish-ochreous, apex 

 fuscous-grey, hindmargin more or less suffused with light fuscous-grey; 

 cilia whitish-ochreous, with two faint grey lines. 



Very distinct by the ochreous-fuscous head and palpi, the position of the 

 white streak above middle, and the dark fuscous costal space. 



Occurs at Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin, and probably 

 everywhere, abundantly from December to April. 



13. Gr. tuhualis, Feld. 



(Crambus tuhualis, Feld., Keise der Novara, PL CXXXVIL, 18 ; Crambus vulgaris, ButL, 



Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1877, 400, PL XLIIL, 7.) 



Male, female. — 20-25 mm. Head brownish-ochreous or fuscous. Palpi 



greyish fuscous or dark fuscous, labial palpi moderate, beneath whitish. 



