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fold, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line defined 

 by the area beyond it being blackish, with somewhat dentate black 

 marks beyond it and before it in sub median fold, dentate at veins 

 7, 6, 4, 3, and excurved to tornus, some whitish on it at veins 7, 6, 

 3, and a diffused patch at inner margin ; a terminal series of small 

 black hxnules. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous ; a fino 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the 

 Tinderside greyish irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. New Zealand, Chatham I., type t in Coll. Meyrick. E.vp. 

 42 millim. 



*167G. Morrisonia agorastis. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 23.) 



Mamestra agorasUs, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. lust. xix. p. 18 (1887) ; Hudson, 

 New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 18, pi. v. f. 30. 



(S . Head and thorax bright red-brown with a purplish tinge 

 and mixed with a few white scales ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore 

 wing purplish red-brown irrorated with grey : subbasal line defined 

 by grey on each side and waved from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemediul line defined by grey on inner side, waved and angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, indistinctly defined by grey 

 and blackish scales ; orbicular and reniform moderate, with fuscous 

 centres and white annuli defined by black, the former rounded and 

 slightly produced on outer side ; traces of a diffused curved medial 

 line ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, minutely den- 

 tate, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, some- 

 what dentate, defined on inner side by very indistinct small dentate 

 brown marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing ochreous, 

 uniformly suffused with brown ; cilia ochreous white with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, 

 especially on costal and terminal areas, a discoidal spot, traces of a 

 sinuous postmedial line and some black lunules on termen. 



Hah. Neav Zealand, Wellington, Akaroa, Lake Guyon, typo f c? 

 in Coll. Meyrick, Exp. 38 millim. 



1677. Morrisonia mucens. 



Septis mucens, Hubn. Zutr. Ex. Schniefct. iii. p. 9, ff. 41.'), 41G (1827) ; 



limith. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 2.31. 

 Xylina mulfifaria, Wlk. xi. 628 (18.57). 

 Xylina spoliata, Wlk. xi. 769 (1857). 



Head and thorax ochreons white mixed with dark brown ; frons 

 with black bar; tegula) with black medial line; patagia edged with 

 black; abdomen brownish ochreous irrorated with black. Fore 

 wing ochrcoiis white more or less tinged with rufous, sometimes 

 nearly uniformly suffused with dark brown ; a sinuous l)lack streak 

 below base of cell, and a streak above inner margin rear base ; 



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