Meykick. — On Neiv Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 61 



Larva rather stout, cylindrical, attenuated at both ends ; rather light 

 dull green, bluish-tinged towards back, yellowish-tinged on sides and on 

 segmental divisions ; spots hardly lighter ; head (when full-grown) pale dull 

 ochreous, spotted with brownish-ochreous on crown. "When younger (until 

 last moult), head small, black, deeply incised behind, second segment 

 greenish- whitish, transparent, hindmargin and posterior angles suffused 

 with blackish. Feeds amongst spun-together shoots and leaves of Veronica, 

 Lonicera, Rumex, etc. ; probably very polyphagous. Pupa in same position, 

 without cocoon. Larva? were found plentifully in February and March, 

 from which moths emerged in April, but probably they are feeding 

 during most of the year. The species is very liable to the attacks of 

 a large solitary dipterous parasite, which destroys nine-tenths of the 

 larva?. 



Very common, and probably universally distributed, occurring at Auck- 

 land, Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin, from November to 

 April, and occasionally in June and July. 



15. Carpocapsa, Tr. 



Thorax smooth. Antenna? in male simple. Palpi moderate, ascending, 

 appressed to face, second joint shortly rough-scaled beneath. Forewings 

 with costa simple in male. Hindwings broader than forewings, in male 

 with a short membranous ridge on lower median near base, and a grooved 

 channel below it. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 and 8 separate, 7 to hind- 

 margin. Hindwings with 8 veins, 3 and 4 stalked, 5 nearly parallel to 4, 

 6 and 7 separate, 



Very distinct from any indigenous genus ; represented only by one 

 species, imported from Europe with the apple tree, on the fruit of which 

 the larva feeds. 



31. Carp, pomonella, lb. . 



Minor, alis ant. griseis, strigulis transversis saturatioribus, macula 

 magna postica fusco-cuprea, metallico-cincta, antice nigro-marginata ; 

 post, fuscis. 



Male, female. — 16-18 mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous-grey, 

 sprinkled with whitish. Forewings moderate, posteriorly dilated, costa 

 hardly arched, hindmargin oblique, sinuate ; ashy-grey (scales dark grey 

 with white tips), with numerous irregular transverse greyish-fuscous lines, 

 coalescing to form a rather narrow transverse band at -J from base ; a 

 moderately broad elongate-ovate coppery-fuscous patch on anal angle, ex- 

 tending along hindmargin nearly to apex, preceded and followed by a 

 metallic line, and containing two small metallic spots on anal angle ; the 

 anterior metallic line is preceded by a blackish streak, extending from 

 inner margin half across wing : cilia grey, rather metallic, paler towards 



