Meyriok. — On New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. 65 



Male, female. — 9-1 OJ mm. Head and thorax dark fuscous, sprinkled 

 with ashy-whitish. Forewings narrow, costa hardly arched, hindmargin 

 sinuate, very oblique ; dark fuscous, irrorated with grey and ashy- whitish 

 scales, especially on basal half and before apex, tending to form irregular 

 transverse lines ; sometimes an indistinct ochreous suffusion towards inner 

 margin before middle, and above anal angle : cilia dark fuscous, extreme 

 tips and base ashy-whitish. Hindwings dark fuscous ; cilia dark fuscous, 

 with a darker basal line. 



Taken rather commonly amongst rough herbage near a swamp at 

 Hamilton, in January. 



19. Exoeia, n. g. 



Thorax smooth. Antenna? in male ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected, 

 second joint roughly haired. Forewings with costa in male simple. Hind- 

 wings broader than forewings. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 and 8 separate, 

 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 7 veins (normal veins 3 and 4 coinci- 

 dent), 4 parallel to 3, 5 and 6 separate. 



I cannot affirm for certain that this genus is correctly located ; it is 

 impossible to make out on the single specimen whether the lower median 

 is truly pectinated or not, but in other respects it seems to have some 

 affinity with the group of Strepsiceros, though the antenna? are not 

 notched. 



36. Exor. mochlojjJiorana, n. sp. 



Parva, alis ant. dilute griseo-ochreis, fascia antica subcurva, altera 

 postica inferius dilatata, tertia subapicali, macula costa? media alteraque 

 apicis saturate fuscis ; post, griseis. 



Male. — 10| mm. Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous, mixed with pale 

 greyish-ochreous. Palpi grey-whitish, externally suffused with fuscous. 

 Antenna? dark fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, posterior tibia? grey-whitish, 

 apex of joints obscurely pale. Forewings very narrow, costa hardly arched, 

 hindmargin nearly straight, extremely oblique ; pale greyish-ochreous, 

 obscurely strigulated with grey, and with scattered dark fuscous scales ; 

 base mixed with dark fuscous ; two .small dark fuscous spots on costa near 

 base ; a moderately broad slightly curved dark fuscous fascia from ^ of 

 costa to f of inner margin ; a small dark fuscous spot on middle of costa ; a 

 dark fuscous fascia from f of costa to anal angle, upper half narrow, lower 

 half very broadly dilated ; a narrow somewhat irregular dark fuscous fascia 

 from |- of costa to middle of hindmargin ; a small dark fuscous apical spot : 

 cilia ochreous-whitish mixed with grey. Hindwings rather dark grey ; cilia 

 grey, tips paler. 



A very distinct species, in form and marking somewhat resembling 

 Eurythecta robasta. 

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