Epichorista elephantina

Meyrick described the male of this species as follows:

Male.—27 mm. Head, palpi, and antennæ whitish-ochreous, palpi externally fuscous-tinged. Thorax pale yellowish-ochreous. Abdomen and legs whitish-ochreous, anterior and middle pair infuscated. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa slightly arched, apex round-pointed, hindmargin hardly perceptibly sinuate, oblique; whitish-ochreous; a cloudy central streak from base to beyond middle more yellowish-ochreous, containing several small dots of black scales, and an ill-defined longitudinal blackish line in disc, extending from ⅓ – ⅔; some fine scattered black dots towards hindmargin: cilia pale whitish-ochreous. Hindwings and cilia whitish. Singularly distinct by its comparatively gigantic size, pale colouring, and blackish discal line. Hudson described the female of the species as follows:

The expansion of the wings of the female is 7⁄8 inch. The fore-wings are more pointed than in the male, the costa more arched, the termen more oblique (thus with smaller size showing some tendency to reduction). The hind-wings are rather dark grey. Hudson stated that this species is distinct as a result of its comparatively gigantic size, pale colouring, and blackish discal line. He also stated that the moth is apparently rare and had only been located at Arthur's Pass.

E. elephantina is endemic to New Zealand. It has been observed at Arthur's Pass in the South Island.