1644 DESCRIPTIONS OF AUSTRALIAN MICRO-LEPIDOPTERA, 
686. (272a.) Pelt, amenena, Meyr. 
i^Peltoi^hora amenena, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. 1887, 78.) 
Mountains of South Island, New Zealand. 
The following is a tabulation of the 31 described species of 
Peltophora : — 
1. Hind wings yellow or orange 2. 
Hindwings not yellow or orange 7. 
2. Forewings with white or yellow blotches 3. 
Forewings without white or yellow 
blotches 5. 
3. With nine whitish spots 256. marionella. 
Without nine whitish spots 4. 
4. W^ith three whitish fascite and two spots 682. auantis. 
"With a yellow blotch 264. helias. 
5. Forewings dark fuscous 6. 
Forewings whitish-ochreous 269. conjunctella. 
6. With an indistinct whitish fascia 683. mesodesma. 
"Without an indistinct whitish fascia 263. fulvia. 
7. Forewings yellow or with yellow blotches 8. 
Forewings not yellow or with yellow 
blotches 18. 
8. Thorax wholly yellow 252. coniortia. 
Thorax not wholly yellow 9. 
9. Thorax partially yellow 10. 
Thorax wholly dark fuscous 16. 
10. Forewings dark fuscous with yellow 
blotches 11. 
Forewings yellow with dark markings... 13. 
11. With nine yellow blotches 255. gloriosella. 
With six or seven yellow blotches 12. 
12. Cilia of forewings wholly blackish-grey... 680. melanocrossa. 
Cilia of forewings partly yellow 254. argutella. 
13. With a dark costal streak 675. epitoxa. 
Without a dark costal streak 14 
