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M.OKRISONIA SEQDENS. X 2. 



bright grey, irrorated with fuscous. A jagged subbasal line, strongly 

 maiked on submedian fold, where it turns abruptly towards base. A 

 dark line across wing at J, double, space between double lines grey (not 

 irrorated), a dark mark on 

 costa at |, followed by two 

 more above reniform. Sub- 

 terminal line faint and suf- 

 fused. A terminal series of 

 black points ; a few dark 

 points outline veins. Orbi- 

 cular faint, but with a well- 

 defined line along lower edge. 

 Reniform defined by a dark 

 line below and on terminal 

 edge. Cilia grey, mixed with 

 fuscous. Hind -wings brown, darker towards termen. Cilia brown, with fine 

 paler line at base. Tips grey-white. 



Taken at Whakarewarewa, North Island, on the 15th February, 1910, 

 by Dr. G. B. Longstaff, F.E.S., whom I have to thank for the privilege 

 of describing this moth. 



The well-defined line below reniform and orbicular readily distin- 

 guishes this from phricias, which it is very close to — much closer than 

 M. longslaffii. Neither has it the ferruginous markings of the latter. 



Morrisonia pascoei sp. nov. 



6 A , 38-40 mm. ; $, 36-38 mm. 



<$. Antennae filiform, reddish-brown. Palpi, legs, and face reddish- 

 brown. Thorax and crests reddish-brown with slight fuscous in oration. 

 Crests well developed. Abdomen slightly fuscous, with crests strong ; 

 ochreous at sides. Anal tuft well developed, reddish-ochreous. Forewings 

 red-brown with fuscous markings. Subbasal line double, very indistinct ; 

 a double line at I, also indistinct; another before reniform, more plainly 

 marked towards dorsum. Two faint jagged lines, then faint subterminal line 



Morrisonia pascoei. x 2. 



hardly traceable at apex but outlined by a dark suffusion on both sides 

 at about vein 7. then forming two nearly equal dentate marks, then 

 again suffused on both sides at about vein 3 to close to torn us. Reni- 

 form deep fuscous, slightly edged on outer side with a thin ochre line. 

 Orbicular obsolete. Veins faintly marked with fuscous. Cilia light 



