Meykiok. — Monograph of New Zealand Noctuina. 11 



11. Leuc. aulacias, n. sp. 



Male. — 41 mm. Head, palpi, and thorax whitish-oclireous ; 

 palpi externally mixed with blackish ; thorax with a slender 

 black transverse line on each side of back, anteriorly. Antennae 

 whitish, flatly subdentate, moderately ciliated. Abdomen 

 ochreous-whitish. Legs whitish, outer spurs black, except apex, 

 two apical joints of anterior tarsi black. Forewings moderately 

 dilated, costa hardly arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin crenulate, 

 somewhat oblique, rounded beneath ; pale whitish-ochreous, 

 faintly brownish-tinged in disc ; a black basal dot below middle ; 

 veins posteriorly and in disc lined with blackish, and inter- 

 neural spaces with central brown lines leaving pale marginal 

 Lines but somewhat suffused near hindmargin ; a cloudy 

 blackish dot towards inner margin at f ; a short very obscure 

 longitudinal streak of blackish scales beneath middle ; a posterior 

 curved row of black dots: cilia fuscous, mixed with ochreous- 

 whitish. Hindwings dark grey ; cilia dark grey, mixed with 

 whitish. 



Dunedin, in March ; one specimen. 



12. Leuc. arotis, n. sp. 



Male, female. — 39-42 mm. Thorax tolerably crested 

 anteriorly ; submedian streak not traceable ; cilia of forewings 

 whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with fuscous and blackish, of hind- 

 wings white, with indications of a grey line : all else as in 

 L. aulacias. 



Blenheim, Christchurch and Eakaia, in November and 

 December ; nine specimens. This may eventually prove to be 

 a form of the preceding species, but at present it is easily dis- 

 tinguishable by the different cilia of the hindwings. 



13. Leuc. sulcana, Frdy. 

 (Leucania sulcana, Frdy., Trans. N.Z. Inst., 1879, 267, pi. ix.) 

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

 and legs whitish-ochreous, partly tinged with brownish-ochreous ; 

 palpi mixed with blackish ; antennae in male flatly sub-dentate, 

 moderately ciliated ; two apical joints of anterior tarsi black ; 

 outer spurs with median black band. Abdomen dark-grey 

 above, anal tuft whitish-ochreous. Forewings moderately 

 dilated, costa slightly arched, apex rectangular, hindmargin 

 almost straight, rather obhque ; whitish-ochreous, with a few 

 scattered black scales ; costal edge slenderly bright ochreous 

 from base to f ; a slender ochreous-brown streak along sub- 

 median fold from base to f , posteriorly very indistinct, towards 

 base somewhat mixed with black ; a slender ochreous-brown 

 suffused median streak from end of cell to hindmargin ; indica- 

 tions of darker lines posteriorly between veins ; a distinct black 

 dot above middle at ^, another at ^, and a third, sometimes 



