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longitudinally with dark fuscous; a blackish interrupted hindmarginal line: cilia pale ochreous or reddish-ochreous, mixed with blackish round apex, often with a blackish line towards base, towards anal angle whitish-tinged. Hindwings grey; cilia pale grey, with a darker basal line.
A very variable species, in size, colour, and irregular intensity of markings, in some of its forms closely approaching the Australian C. chimerinana, Meyr.
Probably everywhere abundant; occurs at Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, Akaroa, and Dunedin, either in bush, on open grassy places, or on coast sandhills, from November to April. I have also found worn specimens in August, probably hybernated.
3. Pyrgotis, Meyr.
Thorax crested. Antennæ in male ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint triangularly scaled. Forewings in male with strong costal fold. Hindwings broader than forewings. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 8 veins, 3 and 4 separate at origin, 5 closely approximated to 4 at base, 6 and 7 stalked.
Separated from Capua by the distinct origin of veins 3 and 4 of the hindwings, and from Adoxophyes by the thoracic crest. There are two New Zealand species, besides which there is only one other known, from Australia.
3. Pyrg. plagiatana, Walk.
(Conchylis plagiatana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 370, (Pyrgotis) Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1881, 441; Conchylis recusana, Walk., Brit. Mus. Cat., 371; Grapholitha punana, Feld., Reis. Nov., pl. CXXXVII, 43; ? G. xylinana, ibid., 44.)
Minor, alis ant. ochreo-albidis, ochreo-strigulatis, fascia angusta angulata prope basim, altera obliqua ante medium, tertia a costa ante apicem in alteram inferius percurrente, maculaque marginis postici inferiori ochreo-fuscis, triangulo costæ medio incluso pallidiore; post. albidis, apice leviter ochreo.
Male, female.—15–19 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous. Forewings triangular, costa slightly arched, apex produced, hindmargin sinuate, oblique; whitish, more or less suffused with pale ochreous-yellowish, and coarsely strigulated with darker ochreous; markings ochreous-fuscous or dark fuscous, irregularly variable in intensity; a sharply angulated fascia near base, upper half often nearly obsolete; inner margin sometimes suffused with dark fuscous; central fascia straight, narrow, from ⅓ of costa to ⅔ of inner margin; an inwardly oblique narrow streak from costa before apex, dilated and enclosing a pale spot on costa, uniting with central fascia near inner margin, so as to enclose a large pale costal triangle, sometimes white; a large irregular roundish blotch on lower half of hindmargin, sometimes confluent above with the streak from costa; a subapical streak