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Volume 22, 1889
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13. Ses. tipuliformis, Cl.

♂. 18–19mm. Head and thorax black, collar slenderly orange. Palpi black, longitudinally ochreous-yellow beneath. Antennae black. Abdomen black, with slender ochreous-yellow subbasal, median, and subapical rings. Forewings very narrow, elongate, gradually somewhat dilated, apex obtuse, hindmargin oblique, hardly rounded; colourless,

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transparent; a moderate black margin all round; a narrow black fascia on transverse vein; apical half of posterior clear space very dull orange, anteriorly black-margined; veins black, posteriorly broad: cilia black. Hindwings elongate-ovate; colourless, transparent, with a narrow black margin; veins black; a small black triangular spot on upper half of transverse vein: cilia black.

Christchurch to Dunedin; common. Introduced from Europe with the garden currant (Ribes), in the shoots of which the larva feeds.

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