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with dull reddish-purple ; a pale transverse line at I ; a dark discal 
spot beneath mid-costa ; a pale line from f costa to f dorsum, 
internally dark-edged, usually slightly bent outwards in middle ; 
cilia dull reddish- purple, bases whitish, with darker sub-basal and 
subapical lines. Hindwings with termen rounded ; colour as fore- 
wings but rather paler ; slender, darker near base and beyond 
middle, cilia as forewings. 
Type in Coll. Turner. 
N.A. Port Darwin, in November and January ; four specimens 
received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 
Fam. PTERQPHORIDiE. 
ALUCITA LEUCOPHASMA n.sp. 
[Aei)Ko<jf)ao-/xa, a white spectre.] 
(J 9- 16-18 mm. Head white with some grey scales; face 
ochreous- whitish. Palpi and antennae white. Thorax and abdomen 
white. Legs, anterior pair fuscous; middle pair white annulated 
with fuscous ; posterior pair white. Porewings cleft to middle • 
white with some fuscous scales ; a broad fuscous streak along costa, 
thickened at i, and giving off a transverse streak across base of 
cleft, but not reaching dorsum ; first segment irrorated and suffused 
with fuscous, especially at base ; second segment with a fuscous dot 
at f and some scattered fuscous scales ; cilia white, interrupted by 
grey. Hindwings cleft at \ and to near base ; grey ; cilia white, on 
costa of first segment grey. 
This is the first described indigenous species, the three preceding 
being Indo-Malayan. There are, however, four indigenous species in 
New Zealand. 
Type in Coll. Turner. 
Q. Mount Tambourine, in November and March ; four speci- 
mens. 
Fam. ZEUZERID^. 
XYLEUTES ZOPHOPLECTA. 
Xyleutes zophoplecta, Turn., Tr. P.S.S.A. 1902, p. 202. 
This species is figured by Rothschild (Nov. Zool. 1903, PI. xi, 
f. 10). 
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