HYSSIA, 279 



to black and white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line ochreous defined 

 on inner side by an obscure series ot dentate fuscous marks, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle, and angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold; cilia ochreous and grey. Hind wing fuscous brown; 

 the cilia ochreous, pale at tips ; the underside pale fuscous irrorated 

 and suffused with white, a slight discoidal lunule and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hab. New Zealand, N. Island, Wellington, S. Island, Nelson 

 Province, Mt, Arthur, Otago (Hatton), 1 $ typo viresccns. Exp. 

 50 millim. 



1527. Hyssia mconstans. (Plato LXXXV. fig. 23.) 



Spmlotis inconstaiis, Eutl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 545 (1880). 



Head and thorax grey and brown mixed ; abdomen greyish 

 brown. Pore wing grey with a very slight orange tinge and black 

 irroration ; subbasal line represented by double striae from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, waved, oblique ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former round, open 

 above and below, the latter open above ; postmedial line rather 

 indistinct, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 grey and black dentate marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved at middle, and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a ter- 

 minal series of black points ; cilia brownish. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the cilia pale ; the underside grey-white with slight discoidal 

 lunule and traces of curved postmedial line. 



Hah. New Zealai^d, Marlborough (Skellon), 1 § type, (J. J. 

 Walker) 1 c? • Exjy. 40 millim. 



1528. Hyssia cucullina. (Plate LXXX. fig. 27.) 



Xylocampa cucuUlna. Gucn. Eat. Mo. Mag. v. p. 40 (1868) ; Hudson, 

 New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 27, pi. v. f. 23. 



rj . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brown ; tarsi 

 with pale ilngs. Pore wing ochreous grey irrorated and suffused with 

 brown ; subbasal line double filled in with grey, waved, from costa 

 to vein 1 ; antemedial line double filled in with grey, waved ; 

 claviform very small, slightly defined by black ; orbicular atid 

 reniform moderate, with greyish anunli incompletely defined by 

 black, the former round ; traces of a diffused waved medial line ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with grey, dentate and 

 produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line ochreous whitish, irregular, angled out-: 

 wards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal 

 •series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale 

 with a brown lino through them : the underside whitish strongly 



