Meyeick. — On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 45 



moderate, in female more elongate, costa moderately arched, hindmargin 

 obliquely rounded, in female very faintly sinuate ; whitish, mixed with 

 grey, with fine scattered irregular blackish strigulse throughout ; basal 

 patch greyer, ill-defined, outer edge irregularly angulated in middle, marked 

 by a somewhat stronger black strigula ; central fascia moderate, ill-defined, 

 fuscous-grey, running from before middle of costa to § of inner margin, 

 edges very irregular, anterior edge rather deeply emarginate above and 

 below middle, towards inner margin partially obsolete ; four small sub- 

 quadrate fuscous-grey spots on costa towards apex, in female giving rise to 

 confused very irregularly reticulated fuscous-grey lines proceeding obliquely 

 to hindmargin : cilia grey- whitish, basal third within a dark grey line 

 whitish barred with dark grey. Hindwings grey, paler in female, spotted 

 with darker ; cilia whitish, with a grey basal line. 



This species appears to be the only one with a crested thorax, but it 

 does not seem necessary at present to separate it on that account ; it can- 

 not be confused with any other. 



A pair taken on sandhills near Christchurch, in March ; I have 

 seen several others from the same locality, taken in November and 

 December. 



11. Harm, oblongata, Walk. 

 (Teras oblong ana,, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 303, (Cacoecia) Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 



1881, 489 ; Teras inaptana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 304 ; Teras cuneigera, Butl., Cist. 



Ent., II., 559.) 



Minor, alis ant. griseis, interdum ochreo-suffusis, area basali, fascia 

 media abbreviata cum macula costaa triangulari confluente, macula anguli 

 analis, alteraque marginis postici parva saturatioribus, striga disci nigra ; 

 post, griseis. 



Male, female. — 15-19 mm. Head and thorax greyish-fuscous or grey ; 

 palpi rather elongate. Forewings moderately broad, posteriorly dilated in 

 male, costa moderately arched, hindmargin sinuate, slightly or not oblique; 

 grey or ochreous-grey, with indistinct darker strigulse ; basal patch some- 

 what darker, outer edge marked by a dark strigula, very irregularly angu- 

 lated above middle ; central fascia moderate, varying from grey to dark 

 reddish-fuscous, running from before middle of costa to f of inner margin, 

 generally obsolete on lower half, anterior edge well-defined on upper half, 

 posterior edge suffused ; an ill-defined grey or fuscous-grey blotch on costa 

 about f , often uniting with upper half of central fascia to form a large tri- 

 angular blotch ; often a slender blackish longitudinal line in disc on central 

 fascia, and in female the central fascia sometimes mixed with brownish- 

 ochreous, especially above this line ; a very indistinct blotch on anal angle, 

 sometimes confluent with the costal blotch ; a small dark spot on hind 



