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greyish-ochreous, suffusedly irrorated with fuscous ; lines darker 

 fuscous, tolerably distinct or obsolete ; orbicular very small, 

 round, varying from orange to whitish, black-margined ; clavi- 

 form absent ; reuiform moderate, whitish-ochreous, outer edge 

 indented, anterior half margined with black and ferruginous, 

 posterior half containing a curved transverse fuscous line ; a 

 series of dark fuscous dots beyond second line ; subterminal 

 pale, dark-margined, rather irregular, terminating in a pale 

 triangular costal blotch ; a hind-marginal row of blackish dots : 

 cilia fuscous, irrorated with grey-whitish. Hiudwings pale 

 greyish-ochreous ; a faint discal dot, slender postmedian line, 

 and very obscure submarginal band darker grey ; sometimes 

 a hind-marginal row of dark grey dots ; cilia pale greyish- 

 ochreous. 



Auckland, Napier, Wellington, Christchurch, Nelson, Akaroa 

 and Invercargill, April to February ; generally common. 



Appendix. 



The following names represent unidentified descriptions ; 

 probably they are synonymous with some of the preceding. I 

 do not quote the descriptions, which are of little value ; — 



64. Xylina spurcata, Walk., Noct., G31. 



65. Orthosia infensa. Walk., Noct., 748. 



66. Xylina j^rovida, Walk., Noct., 1737 ; X. canescens, ib., 

 Suppl. 757. 



67. Urthosia communicata, WalJk., Suppl. 716. 



68. Xylina iurbida, Walk., Suppl. 754. 



69. Xylina vexata, Walk., Suppl. 755. 



70. Euplexia imignis, Walk., Suppl. 724. 



Walker and Butler quote two other species, Agrotis munda 

 and Heliotliis jieltigera, but there is no reason to doubt that 

 these records are erroneous, and founded on a mistaken identifi- 

 cation. 



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