MORKISONIA. 



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Sect. III. Antenna; of male ciliated. 



A. Pectus and ventral .surface of abdomen of male clothed with 

 long rough hair, forming lateral frieges on the latter which 

 has long tufts of hair from base. 



a. Fore wing with the costal area paler than ground-colour. . stipuia. 



b. Fore wing with the costal area not paler than ground- 



colour. 



a^. Fore wing with the subterminal line rufous dotata. 



b\ Fore wing with the subtermiual line whitish ochthistis. 



1688. Morrisonia stipata. 



Xylina stipata, Wlk. xxxiii. 7f)3 (1865) ; Hudson, New Zealand Moths & 

 Butterflies, p. 25, pi. v. f. 17. 



Head and thorax ferruginous mixed with ochreous and usually 

 more or less black ; fore tibiae pale with rufous points, the tarsi 

 ringed with black. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous, and 

 more or less with fuscous except on costal and postmedial areas : 

 the veins irrorated with dark scales ; the subbasal line represented 



Fig. 100. — Morrisonia stipata, (^ . {. 



by double dark stria? from eosta and an ochreous striga from cell 

 intersecting an ill-defined black streak above vein 1 ; a dontato 

 mark above inner margin near base ; anteraedial line double, filled 

 in with ochreous, waved, oblique from costa to median nervure, 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviforra short and broad, defined by 

 black; orbicular and reniforra defined by blackish, the former very 

 oblique elliptical, with rufous centre, the latter with fuscous centre 

 and incomplete ochreous annulus forming a lunule on outer edge ; 

 an indistinct medial line obli(|uc from costa to median nervure, then 

 waved; postmedial line double filled in with ochreous, dentate and 

 produced to a double series of dark points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa and incurved below vein 4, some pale points o n 

 costa beyond it ; subtermiual line ochreous more or less corapletel y 

 defined by rufous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 an d 

 dentate to tcrmen on veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it suffused wit h 

 fuscous except at apex; a terminal series of small black luiiules ; 

 cilia chequered rufous and fuscous. Hind wing fuscous with a 

 rufous tinge; a pale subtermiual spot on vein 2 ; cilia ochreous 

 intersected with rufous : the underside ochreous tinged wi th 



