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wholly obsolete and faintly outlined ; two or three small blackish dots 

 before middle of hindmargin ; sometimes a faint greyish triangular costal 

 patch before apex, containing two or three blackish costal dots : cilia 

 whitish, base dotted with black, on upper half dark fuscous towards base. 

 Hindwings white (in one female whitish-grey), spotted with grey ; cilia 

 white, base dotted with grey, round apex greyish. 



Conspicuously distinct through the white ground-colour ; in form of 

 wing resembling a Cacoecia, but the male has not the slightest trace of a 

 fold. 



Originally described from one specimen taken near Auckland in 

 January. I lately obtained five fine specimens near Christchurch in 

 April, and have seen four others from the same place ; the species is very 

 distinct, and has no affinity with obliquana, Walk., as suggested. 



18. Tort, demiana, n. sp. 



Minor, alis ant. saturate griseo-fuscis, albido-irroratis ; post, griseis. 



Male. — 17i mm. Head, palpi, and thorax dark fuscous-grey, mixed 

 with whitish-ochreous ; palpi rather elongate, internally whitish-ochreous. 

 Antennas dark fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-grey, anal tuft pale greyish- 

 ocbreous. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior and middle pair suffused with 

 dark fuscous except at apex of joints. Forewings moderate, hardly dilated, 

 costa moderately arched towards base, posteriorly nearly straight, hind- 

 margin slightly sinuate, somewhat oblique ; dark fuscous, densely mixed 

 with whitish scales, and very obsoletely ochreous-tinged on small spots : 

 cilia whitish mixed with dark fuscous. Hindwings fuscous-grey ; cilia grey- 

 whitish, with two very suffused fuscous-grey lines. 



A very obscure-looking, yet very distinct species, in form approaching 

 the preceding. 



One fine specimen, kindly presented to me by Dr. W. H. Graze, who 

 took it near South Kakaia in March, amongst rough herbage. 



19. Tort, pictoriana, Feld. 

 (Grapholitha pictoriana, Feld., Eeis. Nov., pi. CXXXVII, 55.) 



Media, alis ant. ochreis, interdum fusco-suffusis, costa flava, triangulo 

 ad basim magno saturate fusco vel etiam subviridi, fascia obliqua nigre- 

 scente, his ssepe obsoletis ; post, albidis. 



Male, female. — 20-24 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax varying from pale 

 ochreous to reddish-ochreous-brown ; palpi moderate. Antennaa whitish- 

 grey. Abdomen whitish-ochreous or whitish. Legs whitish, anterior pair 

 suffused with dark fuscous except at apex of joints, middle tibiae more or 

 less suffused with reddish-fuscous. Forewings moderate, posteriorly rather 

 dilated, narrowed towards base, costa gently arched, somewhat sinuate in 

 middle, hindmargin indented beneath apex, not oblique ; varying from very 



