
AXI.—THE 
The expansion of the wings is slightly over ~ inch. The 
fore-wings are rather broad, creamy white or greyish-cream 
colour, with black and yellowish-grey markings; a few irregular 
black marks at base with heavy sprinkling of yellowish scales; 
the first line is very distinct, black, with angulation outwards 
above middle; orbicular and claviform heavily outlined in black; 
a broad sprinkling of black and yellowish scales beyond first 
line, especially towards dorsum; reniform 8-shaped clearly out- 
lined in black with cloudy suffusion above it on costa; second 
line black, with two strong sinuations below costa, slightly den- 
tate towards dorsum; a broad, irregular yellowish suffusion 
beyond second line, the veins thereon marked in black; a black 
blotch on termen above middle, the rest of terminal area cream- 
coloured. The hind-wings are pale grey, with a wavy darker 
sub-terminal line. 
Somewhat variable in ground colour and intensity of 
markings. 
The perfect insect appears in January and February, 
and frequents scrubby forest on the mountain sides. 
SCOPARIA TORODES. 
(Scoparia torodes, Meyr., Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1901, 568.) 
This species was discovered at Mount Cook by Fereday. 
The expansion of the wings is about ? inch. The fore-wings 
are white; there is a dark fuscous basal fascia from costa, 
reaching half across wing; basal area up to first line mixed with 
ochreous and dark fuscous; lines white, remote, first curved, 
edged posteriorly by an irregular streak of fuscous and dark fus- 
cous scales, Strongest towards costa; second twice sinuate, edged 
anteriorly by a strong dark fuscous streak; orbicular and clavi- 
form small, roundish, dark fuscous, confluent with dark margin 
of first line; an X-shaped dark fuscous discal mark, anteriorly 
touching a cloudy triangular dark fuscous spot on costa beyond 
middle; terminal area beyond second line dark fuscous, with a 
broad, irregular white sub-terminal line confluent in middle with 
second line and slightly interrupted above this; cilia whitish 
with two cloudy dark fuscous lines. Hind-wings light grey, cilia 
whitish with two grey lines. 
The perfect insect appears in February. 
I am unacquainted with this species. The above has 
been taken from the original description. 
SCOPARIA TRISCELIS. 
(Scoparia triscelis, Meyr., Sub-antarctic Islands of New 
Zealand, 71.) 
(Plate XXI., fig. 4 9.) 
This very clearly-marked species was discovered at 
Auckland Island during the scientific expedition of Novem- 
ber, 1907. It has since been found on Mount Egmont, in 
the Routeburn Valley near Lake Wakatipu, and on the 
Hunter Mountains and Longwood Range. 
The expansion of the wings is about ~ inch. The fore-wings 
are elongate triangular, pale brownish-ochreous very thickly 
speckled with blackish brown scales except on the veins; the first 
line is dull white, very oblique and nearly straight; the orbicular 
and claviform are very distinct almost wholly brownish-ochreous; 
the reniform very large, brownish-ochreous with an irregularly 
triangular centre of blackish scales; there is an oblong white 
patch between the orbicular and the reniform; the second line is 
very oblique, waved above the middle; the sub-terminal line very 
deeply indented and broken in the middle; there is a fine, white, 
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terminal line. The hind-wings are pale greyish-ochreous with 
a faint grey lunule and a cloudy line beyond the middle. 
The perfect insect was taken during the last ten days 
of November, frequenting dense rata forests. It appeared 
to be fairly common and occurred on the shores of Carnley 
Harbour and Norman’s Inlet at Auckland Island. In Feb- 
ruary, 1911, it was rediscovered in dense forest on the 
steep sides of the left branch of the Routeburn. 
SCOPARIA PERIPHANES. 
(Scoparia periphanes, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., xvii., 94.) 
(Plate XXL, fig. 3 9.) 
Although rare this pretty species seems to be gener- 
ally distributed. It has occurred at Whangarei, Waitakere, 
Auckland, Waimarino, Wellington, Motueka, Lake Waka- 
tipu and Invercargill. 
The expansion of the wings is not quite ~ inch. The fore- 
wings are very pale yellow; there is a thick black oblique line 
on the costa close to the base almost touching the dorsum and 
surrounded with a brownish shading; the first line is very con- 
spicuous, straight, black, oblique, followed by a very broad, brown 
shading reaching half-way to the second line; the reniform. con- 
sists of two small brown dots; the second line is faint, wavy, pale 
brown, not reaching the !dorsum; there is a large, irregular, 
somewhat crescentic, black mark below the apex and a smaller 
but somewhat similar mark at the tornus; there is also a Series 
of terminal black dots. The hind-wings are pale grey with a faint 
sub-terminal line and terminal shading. 
The perfect insect appears in December and January, 
but is rarely met with in the North Island. It is attracted 
by light and is oceasionally taken resting on windows. Mr. 
Philpott states that it is common in swampy bush near 
Tnvereargill. 
SCOPARIA COLPOTA. 
(Scoparia colpota, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., xx., 65.) 
(Plate XXI., fig. 1 @.) 
This species is fairly common at Wellington and has 
also occurred at Christchurch, Dunedin and Lake Waka- 
tipu. 
The expansion of the wings is not quite ? inch. Apart from 
its somewhat smaller size this species differs from S. periphanes 
in the following respects: The general ground colour is slightly 
tinged with bluish-grey; the first line is less oblique; the second 
line slender, black, quite distinctly marked from the costa to 
the termen and strongly curved, especially just above the middle; 
the conspicuous black markings near the apex and tornus are 
replaced by a general dark grey mottling on the terminal area. 
The perfect insect appears in December, January and 
February, and often enters houses, having no doubt been 
attracted by the lights at night. 
SCOPARIA CHORISTIS. 
(Scoparia choristis, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. xxxix., 111.) 
(Plate XXI., fig. 2 9.) 
This species has occurred at Waimarino, Ohakune, 
Kaitoke, and Wellington in the North Island, and on the 
Dun Mountain, Lake Wakatipu and Invereargill in the 
South Island. 

