164 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 
GENUS PHRYGANOSTOLA, Meyrick. 
Head smooth; with ocelli; tongue moderate. Antenne 
about half as long as fore-wings, filiform, very shortly ciliated in — 
male. No maxillary palpi. Labial palpi rather short, thick, — 
arched ; second joint clothed with long loose projecting hairs 
beneath, forming a broad tuft; terminal joints short, acute. 
Fore-wings elongate, variable in breadth, apex produced, hind- 
margin indented, very oblique. Hind-wings lanceolate or ovate- 
lanceolate, narrower than fore-wings, pointed, cilia about as 
broad. Abdomen elongate, slender. Legs moderate, smoothly 
scaled. Fore-wings with 12 separate veins ; secondary cell 
indicated ; 1 simple or furcate at base. Hind-wings with 8 
veins; 3 and 4 from posterior angle of cell. 
The imagos have the habit of fanning themselves when at — 
rest, and frequent the shade rather than the sunshine. The larve _ 
are at present unknown. . 
1, P. oxrymachoera, Meyrick, l.c., vol. 5, p. 251.—Head whitish. . 
Thorax whitish, sometimes suffused with fuscous. Palpi white, — 
second joint with two fuscous-grey rings beneath, with a long 
loose projecting tuft of white hairs, mixed with a few fuscous- 
erey. Antenne dark fuscous..* Abdomen very “elongates 
especially in female, varying from pale-ochreous to dark fuscous- 
grey, with whitish rings. Legs fuscous-grey or ochreous-grey, 
posterior tibize white at apex ; all tarsi fuscous or dark fuscous with 
white rings at apex of joints. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, hardly 
dilated, dull fuscous, sometimes suffused with whitish along costa, 
with white dark-margined markings; a broad streak along inner 
margin from basetobeyond middle,thenceattenuated and directed 
obliquely upwards, ending on middle of disc at ¥% from base; 
8 rather short oblique costal streaks, none reaching half across 
wing, first at 4%, produced along costa towards base, all some- 
times rendered obsolete by a general white suffusion of the costa; 
a rather short oblique streak from anal angle, ending in a bright 
silvery-metallic spot on disc; a small silvery-metallic spot on 
hind. margin below middle ; cilia white, with a black apical hook, 
and intersected by a strong black line, except where a white 
black-margined indentation meets hind-margin beneath apex. 
Hind-wings fuscous-grey, cilia whitish. 
Male and female, length 43(-534 lines. ; 
Remarkable from its lanceolate wings and very elongate 
abdomen. Six specimens taken on the dry grassy volcanic hills 
near Christchurch, in January. 
i og! achlyoessa, Meyrick, l.c., vol. 5., p. 252.—Head and 
thorax whitish-grey. Palpi whitish-grey mixed with dark fus- 
cous, second joint beneath with a long loose projecting fringe of 
hairs. Antenne dark fuscous. Abdomen elongate, dark fuscous. 
Legs pale ochreous-grey. Fore-wings elongate, narrow, hind-~ 
margin strongly sinuate below apex; pale whitish-grey, faintly 
strigulated transversely with darker ; a few solitary black scales 
tending to be arranged longitudinally on fold and lower median 
