3G8 NOCTUID^. 



Hah. Neav Zealand (O^Ze^/)' ^ ^ type, (Purdie)l S ,{Mailiew) 

 1 d , 1 ?,(./. -^. TFaZi-e?-) 1 J , 1 2 , Marlborough {S1cellon\ 2 $ , 

 type viridis, Otago (Hutton), 1 J , Dunedin (Purdie), 2 cJ , 1 $ . 

 i/a,p. 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 17. 



Greenish brown, j'ellower ventrally ; subdorsal line with series of 

 rust-red spots : oblique black marks on four posterior segments : 

 lateral line represented by a series of black marks near posterior 

 margin of each segment, the area between these markings clouded 

 with 5-ellow, green, or pink ; anal segment yellow ; head brown 

 Avith two black stripes and some black points. Food-plants : grasses 

 and low plants. 



1672. Morrisonia insignis. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 20.) 



Etiple.rif/ iJisigyuf:, Wlk. xxxiii. 724 (1865); Hudson, New Zealand Moths 



& Buttcrllies, p. 16, pi. iv. ff. 2'J, 30. 

 Xylina turbida, Wlk. xxxiii. 7o4 (1865). 

 Hadena skdloni, Butl. Cist. Eat. ii. p. 547 (1880). 

 Mamestra polychroa, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 16 (1887). 



Head and thorax dark rufous more or less mixed with greyish ; 

 tegula3 with black line near tips ; patagia edged with some black ; 

 tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen rufous mixed w^ith greyish. 

 Fore wing purplish rufous, suffused with black on medial area 

 except at costa and inner margin, above and below vein 2 and 

 on terminal area ; the inner margin greyish, sometimes with some 

 olive on basal and medial areas ; a black streak in base of sub- 

 median fold ; subbasal line represented by black streaks from costa 

 and cell ; a black patch above inner margin near base ; antemedial 

 line defined by grey on inner side, angled outwards below costa, 

 oblique to vein 1, then bent inwards ; claviform large, defined by 

 grey and black at extremity and below ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, with pale annuli defined by black, the former rounded, more 

 or less open above, the latter Avith black lunule on inner side and 

 pale patch on outer ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; subterminal line 

 whitish, with some black and sometimes some olive before it, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, dentate to near termen at veins 4, 3, and bent 

 outwards to tornus ; a terminal black line and series of points. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale at tips; the underside 

 pale tinged with red and irrorated wath brown, a discoidal lunule 

 and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. New Zealand {J. J. WalJcer), 2 6 A 2, Auckland (OxJe>/), 

 1 d" , 1 $ type & type turhida, {Enys) 1 S -, Marlborough {SlccUon, 

 Matheiv), 2 c? , 2 $ , type skelloni, Otago (IJuiton), 1 c? • £xp. 

 38-42 millim. 



Eggs. Greenish white. 



Larva. Young : semilooping ; pale brown with black warts 

 emitting several long bristles. 



Adult: pale greenish brown, yellowish ventrally ; subdorsal line 

 represented by four oblique black marks on posterior segments ; 



