Meyeick. — On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 63 



haired, sometimes tufted beneath. Forewings with strong costal fold in 

 male. Hindwings broader than forewings. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 

 and 8 separate, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 8 veins (or 7 by coinci- 

 dence of 3 and 4), 3 and 4 long-stalked or coincident, 5 closely approxi- 

 mated at base to 4, 6 and 7 separate. 



A characteristic Australian genus ; both the New Zealand species are 

 found in Australia, whence it seems probable they may have been intro- 

 duced. 



33. Streps, eject-ana, Walk. 

 (Sciaphila ejectana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 350, (Strepsiceros) Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. 



N.S.W., 188], 681; ? Sciaphila absconditana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 351 ; Sciaphila 



servilisana, ibid., 356 ; Sciaphila saxana, ibid., 357 ; Gonchylis ligniferana, ibid., 363.) 



Minor, alis ant. griseis, albido-sparsis, vitta longitudinali post medium 

 deflexa, trianguloque marginis postici saturatioribus, nigro ochreoque 

 mixtis ; post, saturate griseis. 



Male, female.- — 12^—15 mm. Head and thorax grey mixed with ashy- 

 whitish, shoulders ochreous-tinged. Antenna of male notched at i- from 

 basal joint. Forewings moderate, slightly dilated posteriorly, costa gently 

 arched, hindmargin nearly straight, oblique ; light-grey, more or less 

 sprinkled irregularly with whitish, and mixed with darker grey, disc in 

 female sometimes longitudiually whitish ; costa strigulated with blackish ; 

 in male a tuft of raised scales on submedian fold before middle ; a cloudy 

 irregular somewhat sinuate broad dark fuscous longitudinal streak hi disc, 

 mixed with ochreous and blackish, extending from near base to beyond 

 middle, thence bent downwards to inner margin before anal angle ; an ill- 

 defined triangular dark fuscous blotch on upper half of hindmargin, some- 

 times ochreous-tinged, its apex extending inwards to disc at f, generally 

 containing two or three longitudinal black streaks ; in male these markings 

 are lighter, less defined, and more or less obscured by a general grey 

 mottling : cilia grey, mixed with whitish points, irregularly and indistinctly 

 barred with blackish. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia grey, with a dark-grey 

 line near base ; veins 3 and 4 long-stalked. 



Easily known from the following by the broader wings, only partial 

 coincidence of veins 3 and 4, and greater remoteness of the antennal notch 

 from the basal joint ; the markings are usually very different, but both 

 species vary so much, and are sometimes so obscurely marked, that the 

 structural points furnish the readiest means of distinction. 



Larva active, cylindrical ; dull green, more yellowish-tinged on sides 

 and towards extremities, spots paler ; head black ; second segment, or 

 posterior half only, black. Feeds in September in spun-together shoots, or 

 in a loose tubular web amongst leaves, of Leptospermum scoparium ; in 

 Australia on other Myrtacea. 



