370 NOCTTJIDJF. 



surface usually reddish brown ; lateral line broad and black ; a 

 series of subdorsal black stripes; ventral surface green. Sometimes 

 the markings are hardly visible, and the colour is entirely green or 

 brown. JFood-plant, Plantago. 



*1674. Morrisonia paracausta. 



Mamestra paracausta, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 15 (1886) ; Hudson, 

 New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 15, pi. iv. f. 28. 



Head whitish mixed with reddish ochreous, the frons with two 

 black bars ; thorax and abdomen grey mixed with white and 

 black ; tegulfe mixed with reddish ochreous and with medial black 

 line ; patagia black at outer edge ; legs ochreous white mixed 

 with black. Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with fuscous and 

 whitish towards costa, in female whiter ; a sinuous black streak 

 below cell to postmedial line defined below by brown to ante- 

 medial line, then by a brown patch above which is dilated on 

 terminal area to apex and tornus ; the lines slender, dentate, the 

 antemedial line defined with whitish on inner side ; claviform 

 obsolete ; orbicular and reniform hardly traceable ; postmedial 

 line incurved in submedian interspace, where it is defined by white 

 on outer side ; subterminal line represented by dentate white marks on 

 veins 4 and 3 extending to termen and a double mark above tornus ; 

 cilia ochreous mixed with whitish and fuscous. Hind wing grey 

 mixed with white ; an indistinct postmedial line and interrupted 

 terminal line. 



Hah. New Zealand, Mount Arthur, Castle Hill, Invercargill. 

 Exp. 37 miUim. This species is unknown to me. 



Larva closely resembles that of M. ochthistis. 



*1675. Morrisonia bromias. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 22.) 



Melanchra bromias, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902, p. 273. 



S . Head and thorax grey tinged with rufous and mixed with 

 fuscous ; frons with blackish lateral bars ; tegulse with diffused 

 blackish medial band ; patagia with black line near upper edge ; 

 abdomen pale rufous dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing 

 brown-pink suffused with fuscous, leaving pinkish patches near 

 base, on inner medial area and beyond the cell ; a black streak 

 below base of cell and an oblique streak above inner margin before 

 middle ; subbasal line represented by two slight strias from costa ; 

 antemedial line defined by pinkish on inner side, oblique from costa 

 to submedian fold, angled inwards on veins 1 and again to inner 

 margin ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 form pinkish and fuscous with slight grey ocelli defined by black, 

 the former rather quadrate, open above and below, the latter with 

 whitish discoidal lunule at centre : postmedial line rather indistinct, 

 defined by pinkish on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, strongly in submedian 



