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cloudy elongate semi-oval fuscous blotch along hindmargin from apex to anal angle; all these markings sometimes very faint: cilia dark fuscous, mixed with paler towards anal angle. Hindwings whitish, towards apex faintly ochreous-tinged, towards inner margin coarsely spotted with grey; cilia whitish.
A very distinct species, apparently allied to the Australian D. isoscelana, Meyr.
Tolerably common at Blenheim, Christchurch, and Dunedin, in January and February.
2. Capua, Stph.
Thorax smooth or slightly crested. Antennæ ciliated in male. Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint triangularly scaled. Forewings in male with strong costal fold, often concealing an expansible tuft of hairs. Hindwings somewhat broader than forewings. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 8 veins, 3 and 4 from a point or stalked, 5 somewhat approximated to 4 at base, 6 and 7 stalked.
Differs essentially from Dichelia only by the costal fold. Rather numerous in Australia, but there is only one New Zealand species.
2. Cap. semiferana, Walk.
(Teras semiferana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 306, (Capua) Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1881, 453; Sciaphila detritana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 356; Tinea admotella, ibid., 485; Grapholita abnegatana, ibid., 991.)
Parva, alis ant. griseo-ochreis rufisve, striga disci obliqua prope basim nigrescente, fascia media angusta perobliqua saturate fusca, strigam discinigram includente, macula costæ ante apicem triangulari fusca cum fascia sæpius conjuncta, omnibus interdum obsoletis; post. griseis.
Male, female.—11–15 mm. Head and thorax greyish-ochreous or fuscous, face and palpi internally pale-ochreous. Forewings moderate, in male dilated, costa moderately arched, hardly bent, hindmargin nearly straight, oblique; varying from light greyish irrorated with fuscous, to reddish-ochreous or reddish fuscous, often closely and irregularly strigulated with dark fuscous; costa and inner margin coarsely strigulated with blackish; outer edge of basal patch often represented by an irregular inwardly oblique blackish mark in disc near base; often an ill-defined dark spot on inner margin before middle; central fascia moderate, irregular, nearly evenly broad, from before middle of costa to before anal angle, dark fuscous, containing a blackish longitudinal mark above middle, lower half often wholly obsolete, upper half often confluent posteriorly with a dark fuscous elongate-triangular patch on costa towards apex, so as to form a larger triangular blotch; an irregular dark fuscous streak near hindmargin, often absent; sometimes all markings absent, or the wing streaked