37G NocTuiu^i 



the ternieii creilulate, with series of white points da vdns and 

 small black lufaules in interspaces. Hind wing dark reddish 

 brown ; the underside paler and irrorated with white, a dark 

 discoidal lunule. 



Hah. New Zealand (Enys, Slcellon, Mathew), 4 cJ , 2 $ , tyjie, 

 JS,vp. 30 millim. 



Larva. Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 20, pi. iii. f. 16. 



'Very pale green above with numerous white lines and dots, dark 

 greerJ below with yellow dots ; a dorsal series of black spots forming 

 a triangle on each somite ; thoracic and posterior somites with pink 

 lateral stripe, entire in the young stages. Food-plant, Melkoj^e 

 simplex. 10; 



168&. Morrisonia infensa. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 27.) 



Orfhosia infensa, Wlk. xi. 748 (1857) ; Hudson, New Zealand Moths & 



Butterflies, p. 23, pi. t. f. 12. 

 Mamesira arachnias, Meyr. Traus. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 23 (1887). 



$ . Head and thorax bright rufous ; frons with black bar ; tegular 

 ■With black medial line defined by white behind: fore tibiae whitish; 

 abdomen dull reddish brown. Fore wing bright rufous, the veins 

 rather darker ; a white streak on subcostal nervure to antemedial 

 line ; subbasal line represented by a very oblique white-defined 

 black striga from costa ; antemedial line with black and white 

 strife at costa, then indistinct, doublej dentate, oblique to submedian 

 fold ; claviform and reniform absent ; orbicular defined by a curved 

 white streak above ; postmedial line with black and white striae at 

 costa, then indistinct, double, highly dentate, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa and angled inwards in submedian fold ; subterminal 

 ine represented by a series of very slight white marks angled 

 inwards in submedian fold. Hind wing fuscous with a reddish 

 tinge; the cilia rufous; the underside ochreous white tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. New Zealand, 1 § type, N. Island, Napier, S. Island, 

 Blenheim. Exp. 40 millim. 



1684. Morrisonia rnbescens. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 28.) 



Xi/hrphasia. rnhesec77.% Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 489 (1879); Hudson, New 

 "Zealand Moths & butterflies, p. 25, pi. v. 1'. 18. 



Head and thorax pale ferruginous ; tegtilaB with more or less 

 developed black medial line ; patagia with some black scales near 

 upper edge ; abdomen pale ferruginous, sometimes dorsally tinged 

 ■Vvifch fuscous. lore wing pale ferruginous ; the veins with streaks 

 formed of dark scales ; the medial area below the cell usually 

 suffused with darker ferruginous ; subbasal line represented by 

 doable rufous stri* from costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 doublej highly dentate ; claviform indistinctly defined by rufous j 



