Meybick. — Monograph of New Zealand Noctuina. 27 



obtuse, hindmargin waved, obliquely rounded ; grey, sometimes 

 strongly reddish-tinged, suffusedly irrorated with white ; lines 

 hardly traceable : orbicular large, roundish, margined fii'st very 

 obscurely with pale, and then finely with black ; claviform 

 triangular, black-margined ; reniform curved-oblong, margined 

 very obscurely with whitish, and then anteriorly with black ; a 

 cloudy median shade ; a short curved blackish line marking 

 anterior margin of a dentation of second line opposite claviform ; 

 a black streak, suffused with fuscous or reddish-fuscous, 

 connecting second and subterminal lines opposite this ; sub- 

 terminal waved, whitish, indistinct, margined with dark fuscous 

 on a spot above middle: cilia whitish, with reddish-fuscous or 

 grey basal and median interrupted lines. Hindwings fuscous- 

 grey, darker posteriorly ; cilia white, with a grey line. 



Blenheim, Christchurch, and Lake Coleridge, from February 

 to May ; common. 



42. Mam. prionistis, n. sp. 



Male. — 45 mm. Head, palpi, thorax, and legs grey- whitish ; 

 crown with two brown lines meeting in front ; palpi with second 

 joint externally brown ; thorax with large anterior crest, two 

 brown dorsal lines meeting in front, diverging and very in- 

 distinct posteriorly. Antennae grey, filiform, moderately ciliated. 

 Abdomen grey, sides and anal tuft paler, and ochreous-tinged. 

 Forewings moderately dilated, costa straight, apex obtuse, hind- 

 margin crenulate, obliquely rounded ; pale ochreous-grey, 

 densely and suffusedly irrorated with white, tending to form 

 longitudinal streaks ; inner margin suffused with brownish ; 

 lines hardly traceable, strongly dentate ; reniform narrow, 

 white, anteriorly suffused, posteriorly edged with an interrupted 

 blackish line ; subterminal indicated by a posterior brownish 

 dentate margin, diverted to hindmargin below apex : cilia 

 ochreous-grey, mixed with white. Hindwings rather dark grey ; 

 ciha whitish, with a grey line. 



Kakaia, in February ; three specimens. 



43, Mam. temperata, Walk. 



{BnjopMla temperata, Walk., Noct., 1648; Xijlina inceptura, ib., 1736; 



X. deceptura, ib., 1737.) 



Male, female. — 38-39 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 and legs grey, irrorated with white ; terminal joint of palpi 

 elongate ; antenn® in male filiform, very minutely ciliated (i) ; 

 thorax with rather small anterior crest. Abdomen grey, mixed 

 with ochreous-whitish. Forewings moderately dilated, costa 

 almost straight, apex subacute, hindmargin waved, obliquely 

 rounded ; grey, densely irrorated with white ; lines dark-mar- 

 gined, more or less indistinct ; a tolerably distinct median shade ; 

 orbicular roundish, wholly white, including a faint greyish ring; 



