Meyeick. — Monograph of New Zealand Noctuina. 9 



surrounded with dark fuscous, claviform elongate, orbicular oval, 

 reuiform with posterior margin concave, followed by a yellow- 

 ochreous spot ; subterminal obscurely indicated by a cloudy 

 costal mark ; a hiud-mr/iginal series of minute black dots : cilia 

 pale reddish-fuscous. Hindwings rather dark fuscous-grey ; 

 cilia greyish-ochreous, apical, half white. 



Nelson, Christchurch, Lake Coleridge, and Dunedin, from 

 January to March ; very common. 



6. Leuc. propria, Walk. 



Leucaniapropria, Walk., l^oct. Hi., Gn., Ent. Mo. Mag. v., 2, Butl., Voy. 



Ereb., pi. ix., 4.) 



Male, female. — 82-36 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs y/hitish-ochreous, slightly brownish or 

 reddish-tinged ; antennsB in male with moderate transverse 

 triangular dentations, terminating in tufts of cilia ; thorax 

 slightly crested ant3riorly, with a blackish anterior transverse 

 line ; spurs dr.rk fuscous, except towards apex. Forewings 

 moderately diluted, costa almost straight, apex obtuse, hind- 

 margin slightly waved, somewhat oblique, rounded beneath ; 

 whitish ochreous, sometimes more or less suffused with light 

 brownish-ochreous ; a black median streak from base to f ; a 

 minute black dot above it towards base, and another towards 

 inner margin at -i ; a dark fuscous longitudinal streak in disc, 

 suffused beneath with reddish-fuscous, from above apex of basal 

 streak to near hind-margin ; orbicular sometimes indicated, 

 reniform tolerably defined, pale-margined, posteriorly edged 

 with dark fuscous, sometimes intersecting discal streak ; a pos- 

 terior curved series of minute black dots ; a hind-marginal series 

 of larger black dots : cilia whitish-ochreous or pale ochreous, 

 indistinctly barred with greyish. Hindv>?ing3 light grey, some- 

 times tinged with whitish-ochreous ; a dark grey interrupted 

 hind-marginal line ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 



Mount Arthur (3,800 feet), Blenheim, and Mount Hutt, 

 from January to March ; common. 



7. Leuc. acontistis, n. sp. 



Male. — 86 mm. Head, palpi, antennae, thorax, abdomen, 

 and legs v/hiiish-ochreous, slightly brownish tinged ; antennae 

 with strong triangular transverse dentations, terminating in 

 tufts of cilia ; collar with an imperfect blackish transverse line. 

 Forewings moderately dilated, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, 

 hiudmargin rather oblique, rounded beneath ; whitish-ochreous, 

 brownish-tmged ; a slender attenuated black streak below 

 middle from base to -| : cilia ochreous-whitish. Hindwings 

 light grey, tinged with whitish-ochreous ; ciha ochreous-whitish. 



Oastle Hill ; on© Bpecimen, sent by Mr. J. D. Enye. 



