Meyrick. — Monograph of New Zealand Noctuina. 21 



with a small black posteriorly whitish -margined spot on each 

 side of back anteriorly. Antenufe dark grey, in male filiform 

 moderately ciliated. Abdomen grey, sides and anal tuft light 

 reddish-ochreous. Legs reddish-fuscous, base of tarsal joints 

 sharply black. Forewings moderately dilated, costa almost 

 straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin crenulate, obliquely rounded ; 

 reddish-fuscous, veins suffusedly dark fuscous ; lines dark- 

 margined, tolerably defined ; orbicular oblique-oval, margined 

 with pale and then sharply with black ; claviform subtriangular, 

 black-margined ; reniform curved oblong, rather narrow, mar- 

 gined anteriorly with black and posteriorly with white, with a 

 grey middle line ; median shade blackish-fuscous, tolerably 

 defined ; subterminal ochreous- whitish, suffusedly dark-margined, 

 with two moderately acute dentations below middle : cilia 

 reddish-fuscous, mixed with blackish, with a basal series of 

 white dots on veins. Hindwings rather dark grey, base paler ; 

 a tolerably distinct central darker lunule ; cilia ochreous- 

 whitish, with a cloudy reddish-grey line. 



Christchurch, from November to April ; very common. 



31. Mam, tartarea, Butl. 



{Graphiphora tartarea, Butl., Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1877, 384, pi. xlii., 2.) 



Male, female. — 36-37 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax 

 reddish-fuscous, mixed with dark fuscous ; thorax with rather 

 small anterior and posterior crests. Antennae grey, in male 

 subdentate, moderately ciliated. Abdomen grey, anal tuft 

 whitish - ochreous. Legs reddish- fuscous, tarsi dark grey. 

 Forewings moderately dilated, costa almost straight, apex 

 obtuse, hindmargin crenulate, obliquely rounded; reddish- 

 fuscous, sometimes wholly suffused with dark fuscous except a 

 hind-marginal band ; lines paler, dark-margined, tolerably 

 defined ; claviform semicircular, dark fuscous, black-margined ; 

 orbicular and reniform laterally margined with ochreous-whitish 

 and then with black, orbicular oblique-oval, reniform oblong, 

 preceded and followed by a dark reddish-fuscous spot ; a dark 

 reddish-fuscous spot preceding second line on fold, forming a 

 dentation inwards ; subterminal sinuate, not waved or dentate : 

 cilia reddish-fuscous, obscurely barred with darker. Hindwings 

 dark grey ; cilia grey- whitish, with a cloudy grey Ime. 



Christchurch, in April ; common. 



32. Mam. homoscia, n. sp. 



Male. — 38 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, 

 and legs grey ; anteunse with short triangular transverse denta- 

 tions (-J), strongly ciliated ; thorax with moderate anterior crest ; 

 anal tuft ochreous-tinged. Forewings moderately dilated, costa 

 almost straight, apex obtuse, hindmargin crenulate, obliquely 

 rounded, grey ; veins irrorated with black and white, marked 



