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Common at Hamilton, Wellington, and Christchurch, in January and March.
34. Streps. zopherana, Meyr.
(Strepsiceros zopherana, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1881, 688.)
Parva, alis ant. griseis, albido-sparsis, vitta subcostali nebulosa interrupta nivea, subtus partim nigro-marginata, macula parva supra angulum analem nigra; post. griseis.
Male, female.—11–12½ mm. Head and thorax grey irrorated with white, head sometimes almost wholly white. Antennæ of male notched at ⅛ from basal joint. Forewings very narrow, costa slightly arched, apex produced, hindmargin sinuate, very oblique; dark grey, irrorated with whitish, sometimes strigulated with dark fuscous; costa very obliquely strigulated with blackish-grey; a rather broad ill-defined white streak beneath costa from base to apex, crossed by an oblique dark grey fascia-like streak before middle, and three or four slender dark grey very oblique strigulæ between that and apex; middle of disc somewhat suffused with blackish; an ill-defined black spot above anal angle; a short black line bordering subcostal streak beneath towards apex; generally a row of about three ill-defined black dots above anal angle towards hindmargin, preceded and followed by an obscure silvery-metallic line: cilia dark grey, paler towards anal angle, with a blackish apical spot, costal cilia white. Hindwings thinly scaled, grey, darker at apex; cilia pale grey, with an indistinct darker line near base; veins 3 and 4 coincident.
Variable in distinctness and intensity of marking.
Generally abundant amongst Leptospermum scoparium, on which the larva doubtless feeds; at Hamilton, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin, in August, September, January, and March.
18. Hendecasticha, Meyr.
Thorax smooth. Antennæ in male ciliated, with an excavated notch near base. Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint densely rough-haired above and below. Forewings with strong costal fold in male. Hindwings broader than forewings. Forewings with 11 separate veins (normal veins 7 and 8 probably coincident), 7 to costa. Hindwings with 7 veins (normal veins 3 and 4 coincident), 4 approximated to 3 at base, 5 and 6 stalked.
Nearly allied to Strepsiceros, but differing in only possessing 11 veins in the forewings. The genus contains only the one New Zealand species.
35. Hend. æthaliana, Meyr.
(Hendecasticha æthaliana, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 1881, 692.)
Parva, alis ant. saturate fuscis, strigulis transversis albidis obsoletis; post. saturate fuscis.