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The genera occurring in New Zealand may be thus tabulated:—

I. Forewings with 12 veins.
A. Veins 3 and 4 of hindwings from a point.
1. Thorax crested 12. Epalxiphora.
2. Thorax smooth.
a. Forewings in male with costal fold 14. Pædisca.
b. Forewings in male simple 13. Aphelia.
B. Veins 3 and 4 of hindwings stalked or coincident.
1. Forewings in male with costal fold.
a. Antennæ of male notched above basal joint 17. Strepsiceros.
b. Antennæ of male entire 16. Protithona.
2. Forewings in male simple.
a. Hindwings in male with discal groove and ridge near base 15. Garpocapsa.
b. Hindwings in male simple 19. Exoria.
II. Forewings with 11 veins 18. Hendecasticha.


12. Epalxiphora, Meyr.

Thorax with a very large erect crest on each side of back, and a small double crest behind. Antennæ in male thinly ciliated. Palpi moderate, straight, porrected, second joint with appressed scales. Forewings with costa in male simple, apex falcate. Hindwings broader than forewings. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 and 8 separate, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 8 veins, 3 and 4 from a point, 5 moderately approximated to 4 at base, 6 and 7 stalked.

A very peculiar genus, remote from any other known to me; it contains only one species.

28. Epalx. axenana, Meyr.

(Epalxiphora axenana, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1881, 648.)

Media, alis ant. ochreo-albidis, dilute rufo-nebulosis, fascia angusta dentata antica, duabus aliis ad costam confluentibus, signo disci trirami, macula costæ triangulari, strigaque postica sinuata saturate rufis; post. griseo-albidis.

Male.—26 mm. Head and thorax whitish-ochreous, mixed with ochreous and dark fuscous. Forewings oblong, moderately broad, costa rather strongly arched, dilated before middle, apex falcate, hindmargin obliquely sinuate; whitish-ochreous, irregularly mixed and clouded with brownish-ochreous; veins posteriorly slenderly dark fuscous; markings ochreous-fuscous, becoming darker reddish-fuscous on costa and inner margin; outer edge of basal patch represented by a slender irregular, twice deeply dentate, fascia from ⅕ of costa to ⅖ of inner margin; margins of central fascia represented by similar slender irregular fasciæ, both starting together from ⅖ of costa, separating immediately below costa, anterior one proceeding nearly directly to inner margin beyond middle, posterior one sharply angulated