574 Mr. E. Meyrick's Descriptions of 



Two specimens, Christchurch, taken at light in December 

 (Fereday). 



(Ecophorid^:. 



Gymnohathra thetodes, n. sp. 



£. 18-19 m.m. Head and thorax whitish-ochrecms, partially 

 fuscous-tinged. Palpi whitish, more or less irrorated with dark fuscous. 

 Antennae whitish, dotted with dark fuscous. Abdomen pale ochreous. 

 Legs ochreous-whitish, more or less banded with dark fuscous. Fore- 

 wings elongate, rather dilated posteriorly, costa gently arched, apex 

 obtuse, termen oblique, barely subsinuate beneath apex ; pale ochreous, 

 sprinkled with fuscous, sometimes indistinctly streaked longitudinally 

 with whitish ; stigmata rather large, ill-defined, dark fuscous, plical 

 rather obliquely beyond first discal ; a hardly perceptible pale 

 angulated postmedian line, veins preceding this more or less marked 

 with dark fuscous ; a series of very obscure dark dots on termen and 

 apical portion of costa : cilia whitish-ochreous. Hindwings pale 

 grey ; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish. 



Three specimens, Akaroa and Oakley, in November and 

 January (Fereday). The most obscure-looking species of 

 the genus. 



Borkhausenia (CEcophora) actinias, n. sp. 



(J. 16-18 m.m. Head yellow. Palpi whitish, base of terminal 

 joint, and second joint except towards apex dark fuscous externally. 

 Antennae grey. Thorax yellow, shoulders dark fuscous. Abdomen 

 dark grey. Forewings elongate, moderate, costa moderately arched, 

 apex round-pointed, termen rather strongly oblique ; yellow ; a thick 

 dark fuscous costal streak along basal third, posteriorly suffused ; 

 plical stigma well-marked, dark fuscous, placed in an undefined 

 streak of dark fuscous irroration extending from disc above middle to 

 dorsum before middle but sometimes almost obsolete ; second discal 

 stigma dark fuscous, connected with tornus by a wedge-shaped dark 

 fuscous streak • a cloudy fuscous or dark fuscous curved subterminal 

 line, sharply indented inwards beneath costa ; a small fuscous or 

 dark fuscous apical spot : cilia yellow, with thick dark fuscous bars 

 at apex and tornus. Hindwings grey, becoming dark grey posteriorly; 

 cilia grey. 



Four specimens, Wellington (Hudson). 



Borkhausenia hoplodesma, Meyr. 



There is a series of this species in Mr. Fereday's 

 collection, from which I find that, whilst the original 



