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Show 1877.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM N E W ZEALAND. 405 GELECHIIDJE. The New-Zealand species referred to Gelechia by Mr. Walker are (as Mr. McLachlan has pointed out to me) none of them members of that genus. The following should be referred to (Ecophora- Gelechia innotella, intactella, monospilella, flavidella, col lit ella, convu/sella, and contextella. Gelechia subditella is identical with the European Endrosis fe-nestrella. 130. GSCOPHORA PSEUDOSPRETELLA. (Ecophora pseudospretella, Stainton, Cat. 14, I. B. 162 (1854). Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. A common European species. 131. G^COPHORA SORDIDA, n. sp. Primaries pale shining brown ; a small arched marking just beyond the end of the cell, the outer border, and fringe grey ; secondaries silvery white ; body testaceous: wings below silvery white, primaries slightly brownish ; pectus (apparently) silvery white; legs and venter pale testaceous. Expanse of wings 10 lines. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. Allied to the preceding species. 132. GSCOPHORA GRISEATA, n. sp. Wings and body above shining grey; primaries irrorated with brown, crossed by two widely separated indistinct oblique brown lines, the inner one angulated at the median nervure, the outer one, which is discal, deeply excavated in the middle ; a spot of the same colour at the end of the cell; secondaries with a feeble brassy tinge : primaries below shining brown, fringe grey; secondaries sordid white, speckled with brown; body below pale brown; legs white internally, Expanse of wings 7 lines. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 133. fficOPHORA PARCA, n. Sp. Primaries pale shining straw-yellow, fringe white; secondaries silvery white; thorax yellow, abdomen white: primaries below shining whity-brown; secondaries silvery white; body below white. Expanse of wings 8 lines. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. Allied to CE. apertella. Psecadia teras of Felder is (Ecophora picarella of Walker. 134. TACHYPTILIA ATYCHIOIDES, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 14.) Primaries above purplish brown ; discoidal cell white, crossed by a large central subquadrate black spot, terminated by a smaller black spot; a small white spot beyond the cell, and a discal arched white line; apex bronzy brown; fringe brown, whitish towards apex ; secondaries coppery brown, two sordid whitish longitudinal streaks, one within the cell, the other on interno-median area ; costa |