356 CATALOGUE OF 



71. SCIAPHTLA DETRTTANA. 



Foem. Cinereo-cervina ; palpi capitis longitudine non breviores, 

 articulo So minima ; alee anticce subacute, sat angustce,fusco 

 subtessellatce, puncto cliscali nigro ; posticce cinerece. 



Female. Cinereous fawn -colour. Palpi porrect, broadly 

 fringed, as long as the breadth of the head ; third joint very minute. 

 Antennae slender. Abdomen extending a little beyond the hind 

 wings. Fore wings slightly acute, rather narrow, minutely and 

 indistinctly tessellated with brown ; a black point in the middle of 

 the disk ; costa and exterior border straight, the latter rather oblique. 

 Hind wings cinereous. Length of the body 2^ lines ; of the wings 

 7 lines. 



a, b. New Zealand. Presented by Col. Bolton. 



72. SdAPHILA SERVILISANA. 



Mas. Obscure cinerea ; palpi capitis latitudine pnullo breviores, 

 articulo 3o minirno ; alee anticce acutce, sat angustce, nigro 

 conspersce, strigis duabns latis diffusis nigricantibus, la trans- 

 versa^ 2a obliqua, lituris costalibus obliquis nigricantibus ; 

 posticce pallidiores. 



Male. Dark cinereous. Palpi porrect, fringed, a little shorter 

 than the breadth of the head ; third joint very small. Antennae 

 stout. Abdomen extending beyond the hind wings. Fore wings 

 acute, rather narrow, speckled wiih black ; two broad diffuse blackish 

 streaks; one transverse, in the disk beyond the middle; the other 

 extending obliquely from the disk to the tip; costa almost straight, 

 with oblique blackish marks ; exterior border very oblique. Hind 

 wings cinereous. Length of the body 3 lines ; of the wings 8 lines. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Col. Bolton. 



73. SdAPHILA SPOLIATANA. 



Mas. Cinerea ; palpi capitis lalitudine vix breviores, articulo So 

 longi-conico; alee anticce elongate, sat angustce, apice subro- 

 tundatce^fusco aut nigricante conspersce, punctis marginalibus 

 fuscis. 



Male. Cinereous. Palpi porrect, not fringed, nearly as long 

 as the breadth of the head ; third joint elongate-conical, about one- 

 third of the length of the second. Antennae minutely pubescent. 



