384 I70CTTJIDJ5. 



above and wath black point on its inner side, the latter with its 

 lower part filled in with fuscous and slightly angled inwards on 

 median nervure ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 more or less indistinct, strongly dentate and produced to a series 

 of black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on eosta ; subterminal 

 line ochreous white, defined on inner side by fuscous marks at 

 middle and below vein 3, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to 

 terraen on veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing fuscous, with slight pale mark on termen at submedian fold ; 

 cilia ochreous, with a brown line near base ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with fuscous, a diseoidal spot and more or less indistinct 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. New Zealand [EarlX 1 S type, {Eiiys) 1 $ , {Matlieiv) 1 $ , 

 Marlborough {Skellon) 1 § , Wellington, Mount Hutt. E.vp. 

 42 millim. 



1695. Morrisonia morosa. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 4.) 



Xylophasia morosa, Bull. Cist. Ent. ii..543 (1880). 



Mamestra pelistis, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 20 (1887)"; Hudson, 

 N. Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 19, pi. v. ff. 3, 4. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey and a few dark 

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

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale brown, more or less 

 strongly suffused with purplish red : subbasal line double, waved, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique ; 

 claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 fuscous centres, and pale annuli defined by black, the former 

 round ; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate and produced 

 to black and pale points on the veins, bent outwards below costa 

 and slightly incurved below vein 4, some pale points on costa 

 beyond it ; subterminal line grey or ochreous, angled -outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it suffused with 

 fuscous except at apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with bjown, a slight diseoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Nab. New Zealand (Skellon, Mathew), 2 c? , 1 2 type, Wel- 

 lington, Paikakariki, Akaroa, type f j>eZts<w in Coll. Meyrick, Lake 

 Coleridge. Exp. 40 millim. 



*1696. Morrisonia prionistis. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 5.) 



Mamestra prioiiistis, Meyr. Tr. N.Z. Inst. xix. p, 27 (1887): Hudson, 

 N. Zealaod Moths & Butterflies, p. 27, pi. v. f. 21. 



2 . Head and thorax grey mixed with pale brown ; sides of 

 palpi and frons with some dark brown ; tegular dark brown near 

 tips ; patagia with black stripe on upper edge and on lower edge 

 iiear base; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing gr^y irrorated with 



