Meykick. — On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 47 



suffused with yellowish. Fore wings oblong, hardly dilated, in male moder- 

 ately broad, in female narrower, costa moderately arched, hindmargin not 

 oblique, in male gently rounded, in female sinuate beneath apex ; dull 

 greyish-fuscous, irregularly suffused in male with golden-ochreous-yellow, 

 in female with light yellowish-ochreous ; in male extreme costal edge 

 whitish except near base, in female costa narrowly white throughout : cilia 

 in male ochreous-grey-whitish, basal half suffused with yellowish, in female 

 white, base ochreous-tinged. Hindwings in male deep ferruginous-yellow 

 mixed with dark grey, especially posteriorly, so as sometimes to form a 

 broad dark hinclmarginal band, and an obscure discal spot beyond middle, 

 costa towards middle broadly paler, cilia whitish-yellow, at base and on 

 anal angle ferruginous-yellow ; in female dull white, becoming broadly pale 

 yellow posteriorly, cilia white, at base pale yellow. 



Conspicuous by its large size and distinctly coloured hindwings. 



Common at Porter's Pass and Mount Hutt, in January, but probably 

 confined to the mouutain districts. I owe my specimens to the kindness of 

 Mr. J. D. Enys, who also furnished Butler's original type. 



14. Harm, amplexana, Z. 

 (Idiographis (?) amplexana, Z., z.b.V., 1875, 222, (Cacoecia) Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N.S.W., 1881, 494 ; Cacoecia vilis, Butl., Proc, Z.S.L., 1877, 402, pi. XLIIL, 15.) 



Minor, alis ant. albidis, angulo revolucrum amplectente, fascia media 

 obliqua, M. superius obsoleta, maculaque costa? triangulari saturate fuscis ; 

 post, albidis, apicem versus leviter ochreis. 



Male, female. — 15-17 mm. Head and thorax whitish ; palpi elongate, 

 externally mixed with dark fuscous. Forewings moderate, oblong, hardly 

 dilated, costa in male slightly arched, bent before middle, in female strongly 

 arched towards base, slightly sinuate beyond middle, hindmargin not 

 oblique, rather strongly sinuate beneath apex ; whitish, indistinctly strigu- 

 lated with fuscous ; basal patch represented in male by a sharply-marked 

 blackish-fuscous narrow fascia proceeding from costa at i obliquely inwards 

 to disc, thence abruptly to base beneath costa, in female by a dark fuscous 

 fascia from costa before A-, irregularly angulated below costa, bent inwards 

 in disc as in male, but less defined ; central fascia rather narrow, dark 

 fuscous, from costa before middle to inner margin beyond middle, in male 

 obsolete towards costa, in female distinct throughout, anterior edge dark- 

 margined, posterior edge suffused ; a rather ill-defined fuscous triangular 

 patch extending on costa from middle to before apex, its lower extremity 

 usually connected with central fascia and anal angle by two irregularly 

 curved cloudy lines ; a cloudy fuscous spot on middle of hindmargin, its 

 anterior edge marked with from two to four blackish dots ; hindmargin 

 sometimes dotted with black : cilia grey- whitish, becoming dark fuscous 



