378 NOCTD]D.B. 



type & tj'pe lignisecta, Auckland {Oxley), 1 J, Otago {Button), 1 c?, 

 1 $ , Marlborough (Shellon), 2 $ , Dunedin {Purdie), 1 J , 1 $ . 

 ^ar^. 42-48 millim. 



Larva. On honeysuckle. 



*1686. Morrisonia lithias. 



Mamestra lithias, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. six. p. 17 (1886) ; Hudson, New 

 Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 17, pi. iv. 1'. 33. 



S . Head and thorax white thickly irrorated with fuscous and 

 black ; patagia with two indistinct black streaks ; abdomen grey ; 

 legs grey irrorated with white and banded with black and white, 

 the spurs with black medial band. Fore wing fuscous irregularly 

 suffused with grey, the veins irrorated with black and white ; 

 the lines double tilled in with white, minutely dentate : claviform 

 small, round, black with white point at centre ; orbicular and 

 reniform with fuscous centres and white annuli defined by black, 

 the former small, round ; subtermiual line pale, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate to near termen on veins 4, 3 ; cilia chequered 

 grey and white. Hind wing grey with a darker terminal line; cilia 

 white with a grey line through them. 



Hah. New Zealand, Castle Hill. Exp. 33 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me. 



1687. Morrisonia homoscia. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 30.) 



Mamestra h(}moscla,'^'L&yv.TrAX\$. N Z. Inst. xix. p. 21 (1886); Hudson, 

 New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 21, pi. v. f. 7. 



$. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with red-brown. 

 Fore wing pale grey-brown thickly irrorated and suffused with dark 

 brown and tinged with olive-green, the veins irrorated with white ; 

 the subbasal line represented by double dark striae from costa and 

 cell ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniform with indistinct pale annuli defined by black, 

 the former round ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 double, somewhat dentate and prodiiced to black and white points 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, 

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

 hy brown on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing dark brown ; the cilia pale at tips ; the underside 

 whitish thickly irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. New Zealand, Marlborough Province (Skellon), 1 $ , Wel- 

 lington. Exj). 44 millim. 



Larva. Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, pi. 3. f. 10. 



Dorsal area green, with whitish dorsal and subdorsal lines with 

 series of white points between them ; lateral and ventral areas 

 brown ; stigmata red, the substigmatal line pale brown. Food- 

 plant, Pomaderris ericifolia. 



