382 HOCTTJID^.. 



excurved at middle. Hind wing dark brown, the cilia pale at tips ; 

 the underside irrorated with grey, a slight discoidal lunule and 

 curved postmedial line. 



Bah. New Zealand (Eii7js\ 1 c? type, (MatJieiv) 1 $,(«/. J. 

 Walker) 1 $ , N. Island, Murimutu Plain, S, Island, Christchurch. 

 Exji. 42 millim. 



*1692. Morrisonia omoplaca. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 2.) 



Mamestra omojdaca, Meyr. Tr. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 24 (1887) ; Hudson, 

 N. Zealand Moths & Butterflies, ^. 23, pi. v. f. 13. 



5 . Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with grey, the palpi and 

 vertex of head with some blackish ; tegulse with black medial line 

 and grey and fuscous tips ; prothoracic crest grey and fuscous ; 

 patagia fuscous tinged with grey ; tibiae irrorated with black ; 

 abdomen pale ochreous brown, the ventral surface irrorated with 

 black. Fore wing ochreous white suffused and irrorated with 

 rufous ; an oblique band from vein 1 near base to cell and the cell 

 except at base filled in with black ; a sinuous black streak below 

 base of cell defined by ochreous above ; the subbasal line repre- 

 sented by two oblique black striaj from costa ; antemedial line 

 double, waved, angled inwards on vein 1 and strongly outwards 

 above inner margin ; claviform moderate, fuscous black defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform fuscous with whitish annuli defined 

 bv black, the former rather elongate elliptical, the latter with 

 whitish discoidal lunule ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa, oblique below vein 4, 

 and strongly dentate inwards in submedian fold ; subterminal line 

 pale, defined on inner side by slight, somewhat dentate rufous marks 

 and some fuscous at costa, the area beyond it mostly suffused with 

 black except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly 

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

 cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing pale, uniformly 

 sufiosed with fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with a fuscous line 

 through them ; the underside greyish irrorated with brown, a 

 slight discoidal spot and traces of a sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. New Zealand, Lake Coleridge, liakaia, type t $ in Coll. 

 Meyrick. Exp. 42 millim. 



1093. Morrisonia confusa. 



Auchmis confusa, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Sehmett. iii. ff. 495-6 (1827) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 232. 

 Xylina wfnicf.uosa, Wlk. xi. 627 (18.57). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey and black ; 

 frons with black bar ; tegulae with black medial line ; patagia 

 edged with black ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grey irrorated 

 with red-brown and fuscous. Pore wing greyish suffused with 

 red-brown and irrorated with black, the veins streaked with black ; 

 a sinuous black streak in base of submedian fold ; the subbasal line 



