Harmologa scoliastis

Meyrick described this species as follows:

♂. 18 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax brownish irrorated with grey-whitish and dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Forewings elongate, hardly dilated, costa slightly bent before middle, apex obtuse, termen faintly sinuate beneath apex, bowed, oblique; pale brownish, partially suffused irregularly with whitish, costa and dorsum strigulated with dark fuscous; outer edge of basal patch indicated by a blackish line in disc, obsolete towards extremities; an irregular incurved fuscous streak marked with black from ⅖ of costa to below middle of disc, followed by whitish suffusion; an irregular dark-fuscous spot above tornus, and some dark-fuscous strigulae towards lower part of termen: cilia grey-whitish mixed with dark grey. Hindwings fuscous, strigulated with darker; some undefined ochreous-yellowish suffusion in centre of disc and towards costa in middle; cilia pale grey, with dark-grey subbasal line.

This species is endemic to New Zealand. This species is found in the southern parts of the North Island and throughout the South Island.

Adults of H. scoliastis are on the wing from November until April, most commonly in January and February. Hudson recorded that a Mr. Gourlay states that the larva of this insect sometimes inhabits the swellings in the stems of Muehlenbeckia made by the larva of Morovu subfasciata*

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