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base, with a strong blackish line. Hindwings fuscous-grey, apex rather darker; cilia grey-whitish, with a dark fuscous line near base; discal groove in male furnished with a pencil of hairs.

The hindmarginal coppery patch makes this species immediately recognizable.

Taken at Wellington, but probably widely spread, though hitherto little noticed.

Thorax smooth. Antennæ in male shortly ciliated. Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint roughly scaled. Forewings with strong costal fold in male. Hindwings broader than forewings. Forewings with 12 veins, 7 and 8 separate, 7 to hindmargin. Hindwings with 7 veins (normal veins 3 and 4 coincident), 4 somewhat approximated to 3 at base, 5 and 6 separate.

Intermediate between Holocola, and Strepsiceros, agreeing with the former in the entire antennæ of male, with the latter in the separation of veins 7 and 8 of the forewings, in other characters harmonizing with both. The single species has the superficial appearance of a small Holocola.

Minima, alis ant. griseo-ochreis, macula disci, duabus etiam dorsi divergentibus nigris, spatio intermedio ochreo-albido; post. griseis.

Male.—8 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, mixed with fuscous. Antennæ dark fuscous. Legs whitish-grey-ochreous, anterior and middle tibiæ and all tarsi suffused with dark fuscous, except at apex of joints. Forewings narrow, costa moderately arched, hindmargin very obliquely rounded; light greyish-ochreous; a suffused elongate blackish patch in disc above middle; an inwardly oblique suffused blackish mark on inner margin before middle, before which the ground-colour is somewhat mixed with blackish; an outwardly oblique slightly curved broad blackish spot from inner margin before anal angle, extending suffusedly to apex; the space between these three blackish marks is ochreous-whitish, which colour is suffusedly produced along submedian fold to base; three small suffused dark fuscous spots on costa towards apex: cilia ochreous-whitish, mixed with dark fuscous towards base. Hindwings fuscous-grey; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish.

One of the smallest and most insignificant-looking of the Tortricina, in markings somewhat recalling Hol. thalassinana, Meyr.

One specimen taken near Lake Coleridge in March.

Thorax smooth. Antennæ in male ciliated, with an excavated notch a little above basal joint. Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint roughly