230 NOCTUID^. 



irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal lunule and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Kew Zealand {Enys, Mathcw), 3 c? , Mt. Arthur, Rakaia. 

 Kvp. 40 millim, 



1529, Hyssia moderata. 



Agrotis moderata, Wlk. xxxii. 705 (1865); Hudson, New Zealand Moths & 



Butterflies, p. 9. 

 Eumichtis sistens, Guen. Ent. Mo, Mag. v. p. 39 (1868), 

 Agrotis mitis, Butl. P, Z. S. 1877, p. 383, pi. 42. f. 5. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; abdomen brownish 

 grey. Fore wing brownish grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line represented by black strije from costa and cell slightly 

 defined by grey on outer side ; antemedial line indistinct, double, 

 filled in with grey, irregularly dentate ; claviform obsolete or small 

 and slightly defined by fuscous ; orbicular and reniform with greyish 

 annuli defined by fuscous, the former round or somewhat elongate 

 elliptical ; a medial shade oblique towards costa and somewhat 

 dentate below the cell ; postmedial line slightly defined by grey on 



/ 





Pig, 58, — Hyssia moderata, (^ . {. 



outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some w^hite points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line formed by a series of small grey and fuscous dentate marks 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal half 

 paler in male ; cilia white, yellowish or brownish at base ; the 

 underside grey-white with slight discoidal lunule, curved postmedial 

 lino, and diffused terminal band. 



Ab. 1. mitis. Much greyer ; fore wing with the markings indistinct 

 except the medial shade. 



Ilah. New Zealand (J. J. Walker), 3 c? , Auckland (Oxleij), 1 d" , 

 1 5 type, {Enys) 3 cJ type mitis, Otago {Mutton) 1 d" 1 $ , {Maihew) 

 2S,^2, Duncdin {Purdie) 1 S • Ex^. 36-40 millim. 



1530. Hyssia sminthistis, n. sp. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 17.) 



cf . Head and thorax dark brown slightly irrorated with grey ; 

 abdomen brown. Fore wing dark brown slightly irrorated with 

 grey; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, angled inwards on 

 vein 1 ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform small, indistinct, 



