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Male, 10½–12 mm.; female, 14 mm.—Head and thorax in male deep brownish-ochreous, in female reddish-ochreous. Forewings narrow, costa moderately arched, hindmargin almost straight, rather strongly oblique; in male deep brownish-ochreous, mixed with dark fuscous, especially posteriorly, in female reddish-ochreous, with a few dark fuscous scales; a tolerably distinet dark fuscous dot in disc beyond middle: cilia ochreous, towards anal angle in male greyish, in female whitish. Hindwings and cilia in male blackish, in female whitish.
Markedly distinct by its unicolorous forewings, and the strongly-contrasted hindwings.
Taken in plenty in January amongst long grass near Hamilton, on the skirts of the forest. This, as well as the other species, appears to be very local.
6. Harmologa, n. g.
Thorax smooth or rarely crested. Antennæ in male ciliated. Palpi moderate or rather long, porrected, second joint triangularly scaled. Forewings in male with strong costal fold. Hindwings broader than forewings. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 and 8 separate, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 8 veins, 3 and 4 separate at origin, 5 approximated at base to 4, 6 and 7 stalked or separate.
Separated from Proselena by the costal fold, from Cacoecia by the separation of veins 3 and 4 of hindwings. To this genus belong some of the species formerly referred provisionally to Cacoecia; I have at present five New Zealand species, but have not observed the genus as occurring elsewhere. These species, which are very various in superficial appearance, may be separated as follows:—
| A. Forewings whitish in ground-colour. | |
| 1. Hindwings ochreous-whitish | 14. amplexana. |
| 2. Hindwings„ grey | 10. sisyrana. |
| B. Forewings fuscous or grey. | |
| 1. Hindwings ferruginous-yellow or whitish-yellow | 13. ænea. |
| 2. Hindwings„ grey. | |
| a. Forewings with a whitish hind-marginal blotch | 12. zatrophana. |
| b. Forewings„ without whitish blotch | 11. oblongana. |
10. Harm. sisyrana, n. sp.
Media, alis ant. dilute griseis, nigro-strigulatis, area basali obscura, fascia media obliqua, maculisque costse posterioribus quatuor parvis saturatioribus; post. griseis.
Male, 17½ mm; female, 20 mm.—Head, palpi, and thorax grey-whitish, mixed with fuscous-grey and blackish; palpi rather short; thorax crested. Antennæ grey. Abdomen whitish-grey. Legs grey-whitish, anterior and middle tibiæ and all tarsi suffusedly banded with dark fuscous. Forewings