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by the pale colouring, much straighter second line of fore- 

 wings, and absence of terminal infuscation of hindwings. 

 S. legnota is much smaller, whiter, and more distinctly- 

 marked. 



EPIBLEMIDiE. 

 Strepsicrates emplasta, n. sp. 



$. 13 m.m. Head and thorax ochreous-white, forehead and 

 shoulders with dark fuscous spots. Abdomen grey- whitish. Fore- 

 wings elongate, narrow, costa gently arched, apex round-pointed, 

 termen slightly sinuate, oblique ; shining white, with some irregular 

 brown black-marked striae, strongest on basal and apical areas, little 

 marked on dorsal half of median area ; edge of basal patch marked 

 by a strong rather irregular stria ; a blackish -fuscous blotch on costa 

 beyond middle extending half across wing ; a triangular brown 

 black-marked tornal spot, reaching half across wing ; a longitudinal 

 dark brown dash towards costa before apex ; a dark brown streak 

 along termen : cilia fuscous, mixed with whitish and blackish. 

 Hindwings grey ; cilia pale grey, with darker subbasal line ; veins 3 

 and 4 coincident. 



One specimen, Invercargill (Hudson). 



ToRTRICIMl. 



Pyrgotis pyramidias, n. sp. 



$ . 16 m.m. Head orange. Palpi ochreons mixed with dark 

 fuscous. Thorax orange-ochreous. Forewings rather elongate- 

 triangnlar, costa moderately arched, apex round-pointed, prominent, 

 termen oblique, rather sharply concave on upper half, prominent in 

 middle ; reddish-ochreous, sprinkled with dark crimson, suffusedly 

 irrorated with whitish except towards base and dorsal spot ; a sharp 

 white triangular dorsal spot before middle, reaching nearly half across 

 wing, anterior side shortest, enclosing two dark reddish-fuscous dorsal 

 dots : cilia reddish-ochreous, with dark reddish median line, basal 

 half whitish-mixed. Hindwings whitish-grey, becoming whitish 

 towards costa, greyer terminally ; cilia whitish, with grey basal line. 



One specimen, Invercargill (Philpott). 



Proselena emphanes, n: sp. 



9 . 14 m.m. Head and thorax deep ferruginous. Abdomen dark 

 grey. Forewings elongate-oblong, costa moderately arched anteriorly, 

 apex obtuse, termen nearly straight, vertical, rounded beneath ; deep 



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