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fuscous mixed with ocbreous-whitish. Hindwings rather dark 

 fuscous ; ciHa reddish-fuscous, with a dark fuscous line, tips 

 whitish. 



One specimen, without note of locality. 



38. Mam. stipata, Walk. 

 {Xylina stipata, Walk., Suppl., 753.) 



Male, female. — 46-47 mm. Head and palpi whitish-ochreous 

 mixed with reddish-fuscous. Antennae ochreous-whitish, in 

 male filiform, shortly ciliated. Thorax with angles subpro- 

 minent, large double anterior and small posterior crests ; reddish- 

 fuscous, obscurely streaked with whitish-ochreous and darker. 

 Abdomen grey, mixed with reddish-fuscous and whitish- 

 ochreous. Legs reddish-fuscous, mixed with ochreous-whitish, 

 anterior pair with tibiaB suffused with ochreous-whitish, base of 

 tarsal joints black. Forewings moderately dilated, costa hardly 

 arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin crenate, obliquely rounded ; 

 reddish-fuscous, suffusedly mixed with whitish-ochreous, espe- 

 cially towards costa and on a band beyond second line ; lines 

 paler, dark-margined, tolerably distinct ; a short blackish-fuscous 

 median streak from base, interrupted by a whitish-ochreous 

 mark ; orbicular large, oblique-oval, conspicuously margined or 

 almost wholly suffused with pale whitish-ochreous, and then 

 narrowly with dark fuscous ; claviform semicircular, black- 

 margined ; reniform oblong, margined laterally with ochreous- 

 whitish, and then with dark fuscous ; a series of pale dots 

 margined by dark fuscous dots on veins beyond second line ; 

 subterminal ochreous-whitish, suffusedly margmed with dark 

 reddish-fuscous except towards costa and below middle, with 

 two acute suffused dentations touching hindmargin below 

 middle ; hindmarginal space mixed with blackish-fuscous ; a 

 hindmarginal row of black dots : cilia reddish-fuscous, mixed 

 with blackish and ochreous-whitish. Hindwings dark grey ; 

 cilia ochreous-whitish, with a fuscous-reddish line. 



Christchurch, from October to May ; common. 



39. Mam. ruhescens, Butl. 

 (Xylophasia ruhescens, Butl., Cist. Ent. ii., 489.) 



Male, female. — 40-42 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish- 

 ochreous, irrorated with reddish-ochreous ; palpi externally 

 mixed with blackish ; thorax with moderate anterior and small 

 posterior double crests, with a few scattered black scales, crests 

 sufi'used with blackish. Antennae ochreous-whitish, in male 

 subdentate, moderately ciliated. Abdomen grey, mixed with 

 whitish-ochreous, reddish-tinged. Legs whitish-ochreous, mixed 

 with reddish-ochreous, middle tibiae with two blackish bars, 

 spurs with black bands. Forewings moderately dilated, costa 

 hardly arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin waved, obliquely 



