Meyriok. — Monograph of New Zealand Noctuina. 19 



Abdomen light rosy, with dorsal and lateral streaks, anal tuft 

 and ventral surface towards apex dark grey. Legs blackish- 

 grey, apex of tarsal joints whitish. Forewings moderately 

 dilated, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin crenu- 

 late, obHquely rounded ; dark grey ; markings yellowish-green, 

 suffusedly black-margined ; orbicular roundish, grey-centred ; 

 claviform roundish, grey ; reniform irregular, clear white except 

 anterior edge ; hnes tolerably distinct ; subterminal evenly 

 waved ; a submarginal series of green lunules : cilia grey, mixed 

 with blackish, with greenish bars and a basal row of white dots. 

 Hindwiugs pale crimson-rosy ; a grey discal lunule, postmedian 

 series of cloudy dots, and rather broad hind-marginal band ; 

 cilia grey. 



Lake Coleridge, in March ; three specimens. 



26. Mam. rhodopleura, n» sp. 

 Male, female. — 35 mm. Only differs from M. pictula as 

 follows : — Head and thorax with ground-colour brownish ; fore- 

 wings with ground-colour pale ochreous, becoming grey in disc ; 

 median shade distinct, black ; reniform not white ; cilia 

 blackish, barred with pale ochreous, without white dots. Hind- 

 wings grey, with a postmedian series of indistinct darker dots 

 followed by pale dots. Abdomen in male with very large dense 

 tuft of ochreous-whitish hairs from base beneath. 

 Napier and Wellington ; three specimens. 



27. Mam. sistens, Gn. 

 {Eumichtis sistens, Gn., Ent. Mo. Mag. v., 39.) 



Male, female.— 82-Sd mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs light greyish-ochreous ; antenna in male 

 with short triangular transverse dentations (^), strongly 

 ciliated ; thorax with very slight crests. Forewings moderately 

 dilated, costa slightly sinuate, apex obtuse, hindmargin waved, 

 obliquely rounded ; light grey, with a slight irregular greenish- 

 ochreous suffusion ; lines tolerably distinct, blackish-margined ; 

 spots obscurely dark-margined ; orbicular small, reniform toler- 

 ably distinct ; median shade perceptible ; subterminal hardly 

 defined, hind-marginal space somewhat darker grey ; a hind- 

 marginal series of black lunules : ciha light ochreous-grey, with 

 faint slender paler bars. Hindwings grey ; a dark-grey hind- 

 marginal line ; cilia whitish, with a cloudy grey line. 



The crests appear very slight, and it is therefore possible 

 that this species ought to be transferred to Leucania ; it bears a 

 close resemblance to L. moderata, from which it may be dis- 

 tinguished by the grey line of the ciha of hindwings, and by the 

 subterminal not being defined by a darker anterior marginal 

 shade. 



Bakaia, in February ; eight specimens, 



