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orbicular and rcnitbrm defiued by rufous, tlie former elongate 

 elliptical, open above and with a black point on its inner side, the 

 latter more or less filled in with black; traces of a waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line verj' indistinct, double filled in by paler colour, 

 dentate and produced to a double series of dark points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, sometimes 

 nearly obsolete, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subtermiual 

 line represented by a series of pale and rufous dentate marks, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, with 

 deep rvifoiis patches beyond it at middle and tornus ; a terminal 

 series of dark points. Hind wing rufous suffused with fuscous, the 

 termen and cilia redder ; the underside pale rufous with some 

 darker irroration, a slight discoidal spot and traces of a postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. New Zealand {J. J. WaJlcer), 1 6 , Otago (Ilutton), 1 (S 

 type, Dunedin (Ptirdie), 2 cj' , 1 $ , Mount Arthur, Castle Hillj 

 Lake Wakatipu. Earp. 44 millim. 



1685. Morrisonia ustistriga. (Plate LXXXYIII. fig. 29.) 



AyUiia ustistriga, Wlk. xi. 630 (1857) ; Hudson, New Zealand Moths & 



Butterflies, p. 2fi, pi. t. f. 20. 

 Xylina lignisecta, Wlk. xi. 631 (1857). 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown and more 

 or less suffused with ferruginous ; tegulae witt slight dark medial 

 line ; abdomen grey suffused with ferruginous except at base. Fore 

 wing purplish grey, irrorated with dark brown and more or less 

 suffused with ferruginous; subbasal line represented by double 

 black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line represented by 

 double black stria3 from costa, then very indistinct, single, oblique 

 to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform strongly defined by black, acute at 

 extremity, often with a black streak from it to postmedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, strongly defined by black, the former 

 open above, ])roduced on outer side and often connected by a black 

 streak with the latter ; postmedial line represented by double striae 

 at costa, then indistinct, minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4^ 

 in submedian fold oblique and prominently black defined by white 

 on outer side, some white points bej'ond it on costa; subtermiual 

 line grey, defined by slight dentate black marks before it below costa 

 and at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, 

 in submedian fold angled inwards and connected with postmedial 

 line by brown suffusion with a black streak on it ; a terminal series 

 of l)lack lunulcs ; cilia grey, with a rufous line through them. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the undcr.sidc 

 pale irrorated with brown and the costal area suffused with rufous, 

 a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 

 2 without any ferruginous or rufous tint. 



llah. New Zealand {Colenso, Bolton, J. J. Walker), 4 c? , 4 $ , 



