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14. Ophideres, Hb, 



Eyes naked. Palpi with terminal joint rather long, slender. 

 Antenna in male filiform, simple. Thorax and abdomen not 

 crested. Forewings with tooth of scales on inner margin to- 

 wards base. 



An Indo-Malayan genus. 



60. Oph.fullonica,!,. (?) 



(Noctua fullonica, L.S.N. 812, CI. Icon., pi. xlviii., 1-4 ; Noctua pomona, Cr. 

 77c ; Ophideres fullonica, Gn., Noct. vii., 111.) 



100 mm. Forewings brown, marked with lighter and 

 darker and greenish ; hindwings orange, with large lunule and 

 broad hmd-marginal band black. 



A single greatly-damaged specimen of what may be this 

 species was taken in Christchurch and brought alive to Mr. 

 Fereday ; but as it is too h-agmentary for identification, I give 

 only a rough diagnosis from an Australian specimen ; the 

 species must not be quoted as from New Zealand without fur- 

 ther proof, but in any case it is probably only a stray immigrant. 

 The principal reason for supposing the New Zealand specimen 

 to be referable to this species is its geographical range, which 

 includes Samoa, Australia, India, Ceylon, and South Africa. 



15. ACHAEA, Hb. 



Eyes naked. Antenna in male filiform. Thorax and abdo- 

 men not crested. 



61. Ach, melicerte, Drury. 



(Noctua melicerte, Drury, Ins. Exot. i., 46, pi. xxiii., 1, Cr. 323, c.d. ; Achaea 

 melicerte, Gn., Noct. vii., 247.) 



Female. — 64 mm. Head, palpi, antenna, thorax, abdomen, 

 and legs light greyish-ochreous. Forewings rather elongate- 

 triangular, costa posteriorly arched, apex obtuse, hindmargin 

 slightly waved, straight, somewhat oblique, slightly rounded 

 beneath ; pale greyish-ochreous irrorated with fuscous ; lines 

 darker ; two dark fuscous discal dots on extremities of transverse 

 vein ; second line preceded by a fuscous band, containing a 

 paler suffused subdentate line near its anterior edge ; sub- 

 terminal cloudy, fuscous, preceded by a narrow sufi:used 

 reddish-ochreous band : cilia ochreous-whitish, with a cloudy 

 dark-grey line. Hindwings blackish, becoming grey towards 

 base ; a straight cloudy white fascia from middle of costa to 

 anal angle, gradually attenuated beneath ; a moderate white 

 sub-quadrate spot on hindmargin above middle, and an irregular 

 white spot on hindmargin below middle ; cilia whitish. 



Wellington ; one specimen. Occurs also in Austraha, Fiji, 

 Celebes, Ceylon, and India. 



