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wings grey, paler and whitish-tinged towards base ; cilia 

 whitish, with a cloudy grey line. 



Christchurch, in October and November. 



55. Agr. inconspicua, Butl. 

 (Chersotis inconspicua, Butl., Cist. Eut. ii., 545.) 



Male, female. — 33-35 mm. Differs from A. sericea as 

 follows : — Head, thorax, and forewings sometimes suffusedly 

 irrorated with white ; abdomen in male grey- whitish. Fore- 

 wings with sub-basal line black-margined, first and second 

 lines blackish-margined on discal side ; no distinct dark 

 fuscous spot between orbicular and reniform ; subterminal 

 sometimes tolerably defined, with three acute dentations 

 below middle. Hmdwings in male suffused with grey-whitish ; 

 cilia wholly white. 



Christchurch and Kakaia, in December and January. 



56. Ayr. ceropachoides, Gn. 

 (Agrotis ceropachoides, Gn., Eut. Mo. Mag. v., 39.) 



Male. — 33-34 mm. Head, palpi, antenna, thorax and 

 abdomen grey-whitish ; second joint of palpi banded with 

 blackish. Legs white, irrorated with black, tarsi black, with 

 apex of joints white. Forewings moderately dilated, costa 

 subconcave, apex obtuse, hiudmargin entire, obliquely rounded ; 

 diirk grey, very densely irrorated with whitish, slightly 

 greenish-tinged ; lines and spots paler, dark-margined, almost 

 obsolete ; a hind-marginal row of black dots : cilia ochieous- 

 grey, apical third clear white. Hiudwings grey ; cilia as in 

 forewings. 



Kakaia, in July, August, and September. 



11. Heliothis, Tr. 



Eyes naked. Antennas in male filiform, shortly ciliated. 

 Thorax and abdomen not crested. Anterior tibiae with apical 

 hook. 



57. Ilel. armigera, Hb. 

 (Heliothis armigcra, Hb. ; H. conjerta. Walk., Noct. G90.) 



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

 and legs whitish-ochreous, slightly tinged with reddish-ochreous. 

 Abdomen ochreous-whitish. Forewings moderately dilated, 

 costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hiudmargin slightly waved, 

 obliquely rounded ; whitish-ochreous, tinged with pale reddish- 

 ochrcous ; lines margined with reddish-ochreous, distinct, 

 second marked with grey and a series of white dots ; orbicular 

 indicated by a dot ; claviform obsolete ; reniform very small, 



