Meyeick. — On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 7 



This genus is largely represented in Australia, but very little elsewhere ; 

 I have only one New Zealand species. None of the larva? are known, but 

 from the habits of the imago there can be no doubt that they feed on 

 grasses, probably amongst the roots. The imagos are commonly large and 

 handsomely marked, but the New Zealand species is one of the dullest in 

 colouring. 



1. Thin. leucojjhtJialma, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 19-23 mm. Head light greyish- ochreous, sometimes 

 fuscous-tinged. Palpi light greyish-ochreous, strongly mixed with blackish- 

 fuscous, labial palpi very long. Antenna? greyish-fuscous. Thorax light 

 greyish - ochreous, more or less strongly mixed with blackish - fuscous. 

 Abdomen whitish-ochreous, suffusedly irrorated with dark fuscous. Legs 

 whitish-ochreous, irrorated with dark fuscous ; anterior and middle tibia? 

 and tarsi suffused with blackish except at apex of joints, posterior tarsi 

 dark fuscous towards base of joints. Forewings moderately broad, trian- 

 gular, costa very slightly arched, somewhat bent before apex, apex obtusely 

 pointed, hindmargin moderately oblique, rather strongly sinuate below 

 apex ; ochreous- whitish, when fresh slightly pinkish or purplish-tinged, 

 thickly and coarsely irrorated with dark fuscous, towards inner margin 

 slightly more ochreous-tinged, and towards disc more or less strongly 

 suffused with light ochreous-fuscous ; a small irregular black spot on inner 

 margin almost at base, and a similar one below costa almost at base ; an 

 irregular sinuate longitudinal black streak, attenuated at extremities, extend- 

 ing almost from base along submedian fold to -J- from base ; an elongate- 

 ovate black spot in disc rather above and beyond posterior extremity of the 

 sinuate streak, anterior end rather acute ; a rather ill-defined dark fuscous 

 transverse line, preceded by a pale line, from costa at -| to middle of inner 

 margin, most distinct on costal half, twice dentate beneath costa, bent 

 round posterior extremity of the black spot, and again twice dentate above 

 inner margin ; a short suffused inwardly oblique dark fuscous mark on 

 costa beyond middle ; a sharply-defined obliquely transverse elongate white 

 black-margined spot in disc at f-, upper part slightly greyish-tinged ; a 

 double indistinctly dentate dark fuscous transverse line, enclosing a pale 

 line, from about -| of costa to inner margin a little before anal angle, upper 

 third rather inwardly oblique, lower two-thirds strongly outwards-curved, 

 forming indistinct spots on costa and in middle : cilia ochreous-whitisb, 

 Avith two ill-defined dark grey lines. Hindwings whitish-fuscous-grey, with 

 an indistinct darker band along hindmargin, not extending to anal angle, 

 closely preceded by an indistinct suffused dark line ; cilia ochreous-whitish, 

 with a broad fuscous-grey line near base, and a much fainter one pos- 

 teriorly. 



