MORRISONIA. 375 



1681. Morrisonia infidelis. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 26.) 



Morrisonia infidelis, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 206 (1879) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. 232. 



S . Head and thorax purplish red-brown slightly mixed with 

 grey ; frons with black bar ; tegulse whitish at base and with strong 

 black medial line ; patagia edged with blackish ; abdomen purplish 

 brown and grey. Fore wing purplish brown, the costal and inner 

 areas suffused with grey ; the veins streaked with black ; a diffused 

 black fascia above basal half of vein 1 ; the subbasal line represented 

 by indistinct double oblique striae from costa ; the antemedial line 

 with an oblique striga from costa, then interrupted, indistinctly 

 angled outwards above vein 1 and inner margin and obscurely defined 

 by white : orbicular and reniform with rufous centres and greyish 

 annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, entire, the 

 latter ill-defined above and angled inwards on median nervure to 

 below the former : postmedial line very strongly dentate, indistinct 

 and slightly defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line only 

 defined by the area beyond it being dark with blackish streaks in the 

 interspaces, running obliquely to apex ; vein 3 strongly defined on 

 each side by white streaks; a terminal series of small black luuules; 

 cilia purple-brown intersected by greyish. Hind wing whitish 

 tinged with browm, strongly on terminal half; cilia white at tips; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and 

 postmedial series of striae on the veins. 



Bab. U.S.A., Michigan, 1 J type. Exp. 40 millim. 



1682. Morrisonia vitiosa. 



Apamea vitiosa, Butl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 384, pi. 42. f. 3 ; Hudson, New 



Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 20, pi. iv. f. 40. 

 Mamestra proteastis, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx. p. 45 (1888). 



Head and thorax deep purplish red-brown mixed with black and 

 a few whitish scales ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous, the 

 anal tuft, sides, and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing deep purplish 

 red-brown more or less completely suffused with black, the veins 

 irrorated with a few whitish scales ; subbasal line double, often 

 tilled in with ochreous, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line double, often filled in with ochreous, waved and angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform rather small, defined by black; orbicular 

 and reniform defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, the 

 latter with ochreous spot with points above and below it or series of 

 points on outer edge ; postmedial line double, sometimes filled in 

 with ochreous, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal lino rufous or ochreous, defined by minute dentate 

 black marks on inner side and lunules on outer, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it darker; 



