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before hindrnargin : cilia pale ochreous, with a darker line near base, tips 

 at apex blackish. Hindwings whitish, at apex ochreous-tinged, coarsely- 

 spotted with grey ; cilia whitish. 



Variable in intensity of colouring, the female apparently darker than the 

 male ; easily known from the next species by its larger size and much 

 lighter ground-colour. 



Larva moderate, cylindrical, slightly taperiug at each end ; pale whitish- 

 grey-greenish, becoming darker smoky-grey on back ; head and plate of 

 second segment, when young, black, when full-grown greenish-ochreous. 

 Feeds between joined leaves of oak (Quercus robur), gnawing numerous 

 holes, and forming a loose silken gallery for shelter. Pupa in a thin silken 

 cocoon in same position. I found these larvae plentiful in April, and bred a 

 female indoors in June. The food-plant being imported, the larva is pro- 

 baby polyphagous. 



Common at Dunedin, Christchurch, and Wellington, probably very 

 generally distributed ; in January, and again in April and May. 

 4. Pyrg. zygiana, n. sp. 



Minor, alis ant. brunneis, plumbeo-strigulatis, partim nigro-suffusis, 

 striga obscura albida posteriori in apicem percurrente ; post, griseis. 



Male, 14 mm.— Head, palpi, and thorax reddish-fuscous mixed with 

 dark fuscous. Antennae grey, annulated with blackish. Abdomen grey. 

 Legs grey- whitish, anterior and middle tibiae and tarsi and apical joints of 

 posterior tarsi suffused with dark fuscous, except at apex of joints. Fore- 

 wings moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa moderately arched, hindmargin 

 sinuate, oblique ; rather dark reddish-ochreous-fuscous, mixed with dark 

 fuscous, and coarsely strigulated throughout with leaden-grey ; costa and 

 inner margin shortly strigulated with blackish ; an indistinct blackish suf- 

 fusion in disc near base, and another in disc towards apex ; an indistinct 

 slender streak of grey-whitish scales from near inner margin before anal 

 angle to apex, where it is suffusedly dilated : cilia reddish-fuscous mixed 

 with dark fuscous. Hindwings grey; cilia whitish-grey, with two indistinct 

 darker lines. 



Differing widely from the preceding in the fuscous ground-colour, leaden 

 strigulations, grey hindwings, and small size. 



One specimen taken amongst bush near Christchurch in March. 

 4. Adoxophyes, Meyr. 



Thorax smooth. Antennas in male ciliated. Palpi moderate or rather 

 long, porrected, second joint triangularly scaled. Forewings in male with 

 strong costal fold. Hindwings broader than forewings. Forewings with 

 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 8 veins, 3 

 and 4 separate at origin, 5 approximated to 4 at base, 6 and 7 stalked. 



