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dots on costa posteriorly ; subtermiual suffused with white 

 towards apex ; a submargiual waved whitish hne : ciha oHve- 

 greeuish ; tuft of under- surface pale whitish-ochreous. Hind- 

 wings with rounded costal dilation, twice as broad as forewings ; 

 light fuscous-reddish, suffused with grey towards hindmargin ; 

 costa broadly ochreous-whitish ; a small apical spot and three 

 others on hindmargin towards middle greenish ; cilia ochreous- 

 whitish, suffused with greenish on upper half of hindmargin and 

 with pale reddish on lower part. 



Larva (according to Mr. Pardie) light green, with white 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines, spots black ; feeds on Melicytus 

 ramiflorus, in February and April. 



Wanganui, Masterton, and Wellington, in February and 

 March ; four specimens. The large tuft of the forewings is the 

 source of a very strong vanilla-like perfume, which scents the 

 box in which the specimens are contained for more than a 

 week after their death ; the scent is excited more strongly, even 

 in the dead specimen, by stirring the tuft with a pin. 



6. MisELiA, Stph. 



Eyes naked, margins strongly ciliated. Antennas in male 

 fihform, moderately ciliated. Thorax with anterior angles pro- 

 jecting, somewhat crested. Abdomen not crested. 



46. Mis. pessota, n. sp. 



Male. — 26 mm. Head, palpi, and antennae dark fuscous. 

 Thorax dark fuscous, slightly irrorated with white, collar 

 ochreous-brown, with a black transverse line. Abdomen 

 greyish, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Legs dark fuscous, ringed 

 with Avhitish. Forewings moderately dilated, costa straight, 

 apex obtuse, hindmargin crenate, rather obliquely rounded ; 

 dark fuscous, slightly purplish-tinged, with a few scattered 

 ochreous-whitish scales ; lines obscurely paler ; a blackish acute- 

 triangular spot towards base of inner margin, containing a 

 hooked ochreous-whitish mark ; orbicular moderate, round, 

 whitish-margined ; claviform represented by a short ochreous- 

 whitish mark ; reuiform connected with orbicular by a quadrate 

 blackish-fuscous spot, ochreous-white, anteriorly margined first 

 with dark fuscous and then with pale ochreous ; subterminal 

 hardly traceable ; a hind-marginal row of obscure whitish dots : 

 cilia dark fuscous. Hindwiugs rather dark fuscous ; cilia 

 fuscous, tips whitish. 



Christchurch, in December ; two specimens. 



7. Orthosia, Tr. 



Eyes naked, margins ciliated. Antennas in male subdentate 

 or filiform, moderately ciliated. Thorax without defined crest. 

 Abdomen not crested. 



