LEPIDOPTERA HETESOCERA. 1503 



SCOPARIA MINUSCCLALTS. 



Mas. Cinerea ; palpi porrecti, graciles, lanceolati, subtus 



albi, capitis latitudine non breviores, articulo So mtnimo ; 



antenna glabra ; femora postica basi pemcillata ; aim anticm 



angustm, cupreo-fusco suffusm, fascia postmedia alba lineam 



fuscam undulatam includente, punctis duobus mgris, maculis 



duabus albis; posticm mneo-cinerem. 



Male. Cinereous, shininff. Palpi porrect, lanceolate, slender, 



white beneath, as long as the breadth of the head ; third joint acute 



very minute. Maxillary palpi about half the length of the labial 



palpi. Antenna- smooth, slender. Abdomen extending for halt its 



length beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth, slender ; hind temora 



.with a penicillate tuft at the base. Fore wings narrow mostly 



tinged with cupreous-brown, excepting a white postmedial band; 



the latter includes an undulating brown line, which is near and 



parallel to its outer border; two black spots in the disk on the inner 



side of the band, one behind the other; two white spots extending 



to the exterior border ; marginal points black. Hind wings seneous- 



i cinereous. Length of the body 4 lines ; of the wings 9 lines. 



i a. New Zealand. Presented by the Rev. W. Colenso. 



SCOPARIA LINEALIS. 



Fcem. Nigricans; palpi porrecti, fimbria ti, capitis latitudine 

 paullo longiores, articulo So lanceolato ; alee anticm subacute, 

 cano conspersce, linea longitudinali slrigisque nonnullisnigns 

 interrupts, lineis duabus canis subangulosis nigro margmatis ; 

 posticm mneo-cinerem. 

 Female. Blackish. Body beneath and legs silvery white, 

 i Palpi porrect, fringed, a little longer than the breadth of the head; 

 I third joint lanceolate, less than half the length of the second. 

 Untennse very slender. Legs smooth. Fore wings slight y acute, 

 \ thickly hoary-speckled, except an interrupted black longitudinal line 

 I in the disk and a few slender longitudinal interrupted black streaks 

 near the exterior border; two hoary slightly zigzag lines; one at 

 1 rather beyond one-fourth of the length, black-bordered on the outer- 

 side; the other at much beyond three-fourths of the length, black- 

 bordered on the inner side ; marginal points black. Hind wings 



