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a?. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly iucurred 

 in submedian interspace. 

 a^. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled out- 

 wards in submedian fold. 



fl*. Fore wing tinged with olive-green plena. 



b^. Fore wing not tinged wit,h olive-green insic/nis. 



P. Fore wing with the postmedial line not angled 

 outwards in submedian fold. 

 a*. Fore wing without oblique subbasal black streak 

 above inner margin. 

 «'. Fore wing with the streak below base of cell 



short mutans. 



b^. Fore wing with the black streak below cell 



extending to postmedial line paracausfa. 



//. Fore wing with oblique subbasal streak above 



inner margin bromias. 



b-. Fore wing with the postmedial line not incurved in 



submedian fold aqorasiis. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line angled inwards in 



submedian fuld in ucens. 



b. Fore wing with dark shade from base through submedian 



interspace secdlis. 



B. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines almost 



obsolete except at costa bimdca. 



1071. Morrisonia plena. 



El-ana plena, Wlk. xxxiii. 744 (1865) ; Hudson, New Zealand Moths & 



Butterflies, p. 17, pi. iv. f. 32. 

 Mamcstra sphagnea, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 17 (1874). 

 Bianthcecia viridis, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 547 (1880). 



S . Head and thorax olive-green slightly mixed with reddish 

 hrown ; palpi brown ; teguhc with medial black line; patagia with 

 some black scales on outer edge ; tarsi with black rings ; abdomen 

 brown mixed with grey, the anal tuft tinged with ochreous. Fore 

 wing olive-green irrorated with brown and black ; subbasal line 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, where it is often con- 

 nected with the base by a black streak ; a more or less prominent 

 black patch on inner area before the double, oblique, waved ante- 

 medial line ; claviform indistinctly defined by pale green ; orbicular 

 and reniform green defined by black and with their centres defined 

 by black, the former elliptical, the latter often with pale reddish 

 patch on its outer part ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double, dentate and produced to points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below 

 vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale 

 green, defined on inner side by brown and fuscous, especially at 

 middle and as a semicircular patch in submedian fold, on outer side 

 strongly defined by black from bcloAv costa to above inner margin, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal 

 series of black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown with a purpli.sh 

 tinge ; cilia ochreous, with a dark line through them ; the under- 

 side greyish irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot. 



5 . Darker ; fore wing more suif used with brown and black, 

 especially on medial area, the reniform with white spot. 



