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XV.—THE TORTRICIDAE, 
extending from the base to about #. The hind-wings are creamy- 
white narrowly margined with yellow-ochreous and with several 
scattered greyish-brown scales near the dorsum. 
The male is unknown but, judging from the allied spe- 
cies of similar habits, is likely to be very much darker in 
colour, with possibly distinct markings on the fore-wings. 
The perfect insect appears in February, and evidently 
frequents mountainous country at altitudes of about 4,900 
feet. 
GELOPHAULA TRIBUTARIA. 
(Harmologa tributaria, Philp., Trans. N.Z. inst, xlve, (ua) 
(Plate XXV., fig. 34 @.) 
This species, which is evidently very closely allied to 
Gelophaula siraea and G. lychnophanes, was discovered by 
Messrs. G. Howes and A. Hamilton at Obelisk, Old Man 
Range, Central Otago. 
The expansion of the wings of the male is about 1 inch. It 
differs from the same sex in G. siraea in the following respects: 
The termen is more oblique; the costa and dorsum are broadly 
edged with blackish-brown and the veins marked in the same 
colour, which thus much reduces the extent of the bright red- 
dish-brown area; the central streak is broad, well defined, pale 
yellow and divided into two unequal branches from 4, thus 
enclosing a long triangular patch of the ground colour. The 
hind-wings are very dark blackish-grey, paler towards the base. 
The perfect insect appears in February, and frequents 
open mountainous country at elevations of between 3,000 
and 4,000 feet above the sea-level. 
Deseribed and figured from specimens kindly for- 
warded to me by Messrs. Hamilton and Philpott. 
GELOPHAULA SIRABA. 
(Harmologa siraea, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., xvii., 145.) 
(Plate XXV., fig. 18 @; 14 9.) 
This species, which is closely allied to the two preced- 
ing, has oeeurred at Mount Arthur, Arthur’s Pass and 
Hunter Mountains, at elevations of about 4,500 feet above 
the sea-level. 
The expansion of the wings of both sexes is slightly over 
1 inch. The fore-wings of the male are dull reddish-brown with 
a large, irregular, dull yellow, central streak, broadest near the 
termen and sometimes showing a tendency to divide; there is a 
leaden grey stripe along the costa, the extreme edge being dull 
white. The hind-wings are ‘uniform dull greyish-brown. The 
female has the fore-wings dull white and the hind-wings pale 
whitish-ochreous, 
The perfect insect appears in December and January, 
and frequents open grassy slopes on the mountains, at ele- 
vations of about 4,500 feet above the sea-level. According 
to my experience the male is very much commoner than 
the female, but this is probably due to the more secretive 
habits of the latter sex. 
GELOPHAULA LYCHNOPHANHES. 
(Harmologa lychnophanes, Trans. N.Z. Inst., xlviii., 415.) 
(Plate XLVIII., fig. 138 @.) 
This very bright-looking species has occurred on the 
Mount Arthur Tableland and at Arthur’s Pass at an eleva- 
tion of about 4,000 feet above the sea-level. 
The expansion of the wings is about 1 inch. The male is 
very like the same sex in G. siraea, but has a very broad reddish- 
brown costal stripe with an irregular leaden-grey edging; a very 
bright yellow median blotch and a bright brown dorsal and ter- 
minal shading. The hind-wings are bright brownish-ochreous, 
narrowly bordered with warm brown on the termen. 
The female is unknown. 
The perfect insect appears in January, and frequents 
open mountainous country. 
GHLOPHAULA BREVICULA. 
(Harmologa brevicula, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst. liii., 334.) 
(Plate XLIX., fig. 29 @, 30 9.) 
This speciey has occurred on Arthur’s Pass at an 
elevation of about 4,000 feet above the sea-level. 
The expansion of the wings of the male is nearly { inch; 
of the female almost 1 inch. The fore-wings of the male are dull 
whitish-ochreous; there is a broad band of grey along the costa 
rapidly ‘narrowing towards the apex; several ill-defined grey 
streaks near the termen and an irregular grey shading along the 
dorsum, almost meeting the costal band at the base. The hind- 
wings are brownish-grey. The cilia of the fore-wings are grey; 
of the hind-wings white. In the female the fore-wings are almost 
wholly pale ochreous and the hind-wings almost white, finely 
speckled with brown towards the dorsum. 
This species is smaller and shorter-winged than Gelo- 
phaula siraea, and the female has the termen much less 
oblique than in the same sex of G. tritochlora. 
The perfect insect appears in February, and is found 
amongst rough herbage on the mountain side. 
Genus I].—EPICHORISTA, Meyr. 
Antennae in ¢ moderately or rather strongly ciliated. Palpi 
moderate or long, porrected, second joint dilated with dense 
seales above and beneath. Thorax without crest. Fore-wings 
with veins 7 and 8 separate, 7 to termen. Hind-wings without 
cubital pecten, 3-5 approximated at base, 6 and 7 closely approxi- 
mated at base or short-stalked. 
(Plate E., figs. 34, 35 neuration of Hpichorista emphanes; fig. 
86 head of ditto.) 
We have twelve species, three confined to the North 
Island, seven to the South Island, and two common to both 
Islands. 
EPICHORISTA HEMIONANA. 
(Proselena hemionana, Meyr., Trans. N.Z. Inst., xv., 43.) 
(Plate XXVI., fig. 33 ¢@.) 
This very distinctly-marked species has occurred at 
Lake Guyon, Arthur’s Pass, Dunedin, Humboldt Range 
and Paradise, Lake Wakatipu. 
The expansion of the wings is 4 inch. The fore-wings have 
the costa slightly arched at the base, the apex somewhat pointed 
and the termen straight and oblique; dull ochreous; there are 
two ill-defined brown spots near the base; d@ broad, oblique, red- 
dish-brown band from about 4 of costa to about middle of dorsum, 
very sharply defined towards the base and ill-defined towards 
the termen,; three minute black marks are situated on the costa 
near the apex and a brown spot on the wing before the apex. 
The hind-wings are rather dark grey and the cilia of all the 
wings ochreous. 

