386 NOCTUID^. 



with high triangular crest. Head and thorax grey mixed with 

 brown ; tegulte with dark line at tips ; tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen ochreous grey suffused with fuscous. Fore wing silvery 

 purplish grey irrorated and suffused with fuscous, the veins with 

 dark streaks ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; slight traces 

 of the subbasal line; antemedial line very indistinct, double, oblique 

 from costa to below the cell, then dentate ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniforra moderate, indistinct, grey defined by fuscous ; 

 a slight medial shade, oblique from costa to median nervure ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then very 

 highly dentate, oblique ; subterminal line very slightly defined by 

 fuscous on outer side, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at 

 veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the cilia whitish; the underside whitish suffused with 

 brown, traces of a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. New Zealand, {Enys) 2 (S , {J. J. Wallcer) 1 c? , 1 2 , 

 Marlborough {Skellon) 2 S . Exjy. 40-44 millim. Type t in Coll. 

 Meyrick. 



Genus PERSECTANIA, nov. 



Type, P. cvingi. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 •with hair in front ; frons with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate 

 below it ; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the tegulre 

 produced into a slight dorsal ridge ; the prothorax with divided crest, the 

 metathorax with spreading crest ; tibite fringed with hair ; abdomen with 

 dorsal crest on 1st segment and lateral tufts of hair. Fore wing rather pro- 

 duced, the termen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from npper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell 

 near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna of male serrate and fasciculate ; pectus and abdomen clothed 

 with rough hair, the latter with long sublateral tufts from base. 



1699. Persectania evingi. 



Xi/lophasia ewingii, Westw. Proc. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 55, pi. 20. f. 1 (1837). 

 C'hloantha composita, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 114 (1852); Hudson, Kew Zealand 



Moths & Butterflies, p. 22, pi. v. if. 8, 0, & pi. iii. f. 7. 

 Leucania civersa, Wlk. ix. 113 (185fi). 

 Mamestra maori, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 24 (1874). 

 Morrisonia ixracida, Morr. Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 114(1874); 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 232. 

 Leucania dentigera, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 642 (1880). 



Head and thorax grey tinged with pale or dark brown ; frons 

 whitish with dark bar ; "tegulae with black medial line edged with 

 white above ; patagia with some black scales near upper edge ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with brown and with some fuscous sub- 

 lateral spots. Fore wing grey-white, more or less strongly irrorated 

 with fuscous and suffused with fuscous or brown ; a black streak 

 below basal half of cell ; the veins and the interspaces of terminal 



