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very small triangular yellow spot on inner margin at ¼; an equally small rather subquadrate yellow spot on inner margin at ¾, with a pale yellow dot rather above and beyond its apex; a very faintly perceptible darker transverse line from costa at ¼ to first dorsal spot, sharply angulated outwards beneath costa; a suffused darker spot in disc above and beyond middle; a small outwardly oblique triangular pale yellow spot on costa at ¾, sometimes closely preceded by a faint oblique yellowish costal mark; a very small suffused pale yellowish spot on costa before apex; a dark fuscous dot in apex, preceded by a clear white dot; sometimes a white dot on hindmargin in upper indentation; a slender dark fuscous hindmarginal line: cilia whitish ochreous, with a dark grey line near base, on indentations wholly clear white, a dark grey spot at apex, another between indentations, a third above anal angle, a fourth on anal angle. Hindwings fuscous-grey, with a very indistinct darker line posteriorly; a dark fuscous hindmarginal line; cilia grey-whitish, with a grey line near base.

Very distinct through the dark purplish-fuscous suffusion of the forewings, causing the discal spot to be obsolete, and throwing the yellow marginal spots into sharp relief; the spotted cilia also afford a good character.

Common at Wellington in January amongst scrub, and also at Lake Wakatipu; probably widely distributed.

Male.—11½–12 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous. Palpi ochreous-yellow, with a dark fuscous spot at base and apical half dark fuscous, internally whitish-ochreous. Antennæ whitish-ochreous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous-grey. Legs pale whitish-ochreous. Forewings triangular, very broad posteriorily, costa very gently arched, apex rounded, hindmargin oblique, sinuations moderately deep; light yellowish-ochreous, apex and hindmargin narrowly suffused with brownish, in one specimen basal half wholly suffused irregularly with brownish; a well-defined double dark fuscous transverse line from costa near base to inner margin before middle, very strongly curved outwards, dentate inwardly a little above inner margin, enclosing a pale line becoming almost clear white on inner margin; an oblique dark fuscous mark on costa beyond middle, giving rise to an indistinctly dentate suffused brown transverse line to middle of inner margin, which it hardly reaches; this line bounds the brown suffusion in the darker specimen; on it, rather above middle, is a small transverse 8-shaped spot, upper half leaden-metallic, lower half clear white; a slender rather irregular dark fuscous transverse line from costa at ⅔ to inner margin at ¾, upper two-thirds very strongly curved outwards, lower half nearly followed by a similar line, diverging a little on inner margin; this line is preceded and