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lateral line formed by black marking near posterior edge of each 

 segment ; lateral area clouded with yellowish green or pink ; anal 

 segment dull yellow ; head brown, with two black stripes and some 

 black points. Food-plant, Dock. 11-12. 



1673. Morrisonia mutans. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 21.) 



Hadcna mutans, Wlk. xi. 602 (1857), c? ; Hiwjsop, New l^ealand Moths 



& Butterflies, p. 18, pi. iv. fT. 34-6 & pi. iii. f. 15. 

 Hudeiia lignifusca, Wlk. xi. 603 (1857). 

 Xylina spurcata, Wlk. xi. 631 (1857), J. 

 Xylina vexata, Wlk. xxxiii. 755 (1865). 

 Mamestra angiista, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 109, f. 18 .(1874). 

 Mamestra accepirix, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 19 (1874). 

 Hadena dehilis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 385, pi. xlii. t. 6. 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish ; tegulge 

 with prominent medial black line edged with white above ; patagia 

 edged with some black; tarsi with pale. rings; abdomen reddish 

 brown. Fore wing red-brown slightly irrorated \\nth fuscous, the 

 costal area paler on basal half; the veins slightly .streaked with 

 black ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; the snbbasal line 

 represented by black strite from costa ; an oblique black bar on inner 

 area before the antemedial line, whicb is double at costa, then 

 interrupted, waved, oblique from costa to submedian fold ; claviform 

 moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, with 

 slight greyish annuli defined b}^ black, the former round or rather 

 oblique elliptical, open above ; an indistinct somewhat sinuous 

 medial line ; the medial area in and below cell suft'osed with black ; 

 postmedial line double at costa, then indistinct, somewhat dentate 

 and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 incurved below vein 4 and angled inwards in submedian fold, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, defined 

 on each side by black except towards costa, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and incurved in submedian fold, where there is a largo 

 dentate black mark before it ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing reddish brown ; the cilia pale with a brown line throiigh 

 them ; the underside pale irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Uf/nifiisca. Fore wing without black suffusion in and 

 below cell. 



2 . Much greyer and with hardly any red-brown tiijgc ; fore wing 

 with the postmedial area whitisli. 



Ab. 2. dehilis. Fore wing with the postmedial area not whitish. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing whitish with slight brown suffusion, 



Hab. New Zeal.\nd {Sinclair), 1 $ , {Cobaso) 1 $ ,{Bolton)4d , 

 10 2 , type and types lignifusca and spvrcata, {Enys) 1 cT , 2 $ , 

 type dehilis, (J. J. Walker) 3 2, Auckland (O.vle]/), 1 c? , 1 $ 

 type vexata, Otago (Ilutton), 2 $ , Marlborough (Skellon), 1 $ > 

 Wellington (Maihew), 2 $, Dunedin {Purdie), 1^,1$. E,vj). 

 34-42 millim. 



Larva. Kather stout, with the anterior segments wrinkled ; dorsal 



