Meyriok. — Monograph of New Zealand Noctuina. 7 



N. Forewings with darker submedian streak from base 14. temivittata. 



,, without ,, ,, ,, O. 



0. Forewings with scattered white and black scales on 



veins . . . . , . . . . . 8. phaula. 



Forewings without scattered white and black scales 



on veins . . . . . . . . . . P. 



P. Forewings with first line indicated by black dots on 



veins . . . . . . . . . . 10. unica. 



Forewings with first line not indicated by black 



dots on veins . . . . . . . . 3. nullifera. 



2. Leuc. moderata, Walk. 



(Agrotis moderata, Walk., Suppl., 705 ; Mamestra griseipennis, Feld., Eeis. 

 Nov., pi. cix., 22 ; Chera virescens, Butl., Cist. Ent., ii., 489 ; Spaelotis 

 inconstans, ib., 545.) 



Male, female. — 35-38 mm. Head, palpi, antennaB, and 

 thorax ochreous-grey, sometimes suffused with dark grey ; 

 antenn® in male with moderate transverse triangular denta- 

 tions, terminating in tufts of long cilia. Abdomen pale 

 ochreous-greyish. Legs dark grey, suffusedly irrorated with 

 whitish-ochreous. Forewings moderately dilated, costa straight, 

 apex obtuse, hindmargin waved, somewhat oblique, rounded 

 beneath; fuscous-grey, yellowish-tinged, densely strewn with 

 whitish scales ; hairs at base of inner margin, white ; two 

 blackish dots near base, on costa and in middle, followed by 

 pale dots ; first and second lines blackish, dentate or inter- 

 rupted, second followed by a series of whitish points ; median 

 shade dark grey ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly outlined 

 with pale and then with blackish ; subterminal whitish, irregular, 

 interrupted, anteriorly suffusedly margined with dark grey ; a 

 hind-marginal row of blackish dots : cilia grey, mixed with 

 ochreous-whitish. Hindwings dark grey, lighter towards base ; 

 cilia ochreous-white. 



Var. a. Thorax and forewings without ochreous tinge, with 

 numerous white scales tending to form suffused spots and 

 margins to lines ; ciha distinctly barred with darker ; hind- 

 wings grey, with dark grey irregular hind-marginal band. 



Christchurch, Lake Coleridge, Eakaia, Akaroa, and Lake 

 Guyon ; a single specimen of the variety on Mount Arthur at 

 4,700 feet ; from November to March, very common. 



8. Leuc. nullifera, Walk. 



[Agrotis nullifera, Walk,, Noct., 742, Butl., Voy. Ereb., pi. ix., 5; Alysia 

 specifica, Gn., Ent. Mo. Mag. v., 3.) 



Male, female. — 55-58 mm. Head, palpi, antennse, thorax, 

 and legs light brownish-ochreous, in female more greyish ; 

 antennas in male with moderate transverse triangular dentations 

 terminating in tufts of cilia ; abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. 

 Forewings moderately dilated, costa almost straight, apex 



