rERSECTANIA. 



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half with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 very oblique black streak from base of costa ; the a,ntemedial line 

 indistinct, double, very highly dentate, usually with an oblique 

 black streak before it above inner margin ; claviforni represented 

 by obscure black streaks above and below ; orbicular and rcuiforra 



Fig. 102. — Pcvscctania evingi, (^. \. 



small, with whitish annuli defined by black, the former elongate and 

 more or less confluent with the latter ; postmedial line bent out- 

 Avards below costa, then very highly and rather irregularly dentate, 

 most strongly in submedian fold ; subterminal line whitish, defined 

 by black on outer side, the area before it pale, beyond it suffused 

 with brown or fuscous, arising from apex, with shortening denti- 

 tions on veins 6, 5, then dentate to termen on veins 4, 3, and 1 ; 

 a terminal series of triangular black points ; cilia intersected with 

 whitish. Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal area paler or nearly 

 white ; cilia white, brownish at base ; the underside white, a small 

 discoidal spot, the terminal area fuscous from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. ign., type $ aversa and type $ peracuta ; Qcteensland, 

 1 2 ; New South Wales, (Rai/nor) 4 ,5 , 2 2 ; Victoria, Gisborne 

 {Lyell) 2 d" ; S. Australia (Bal-ewell) 1 J; Tasmania, Hobart, 

 (Norman)! <S , (Butler, Smith, Alliwrt) 2(5, 3 2; New Zealand, 

 (J. J. WaJlcer) 1 2, Auckland (OAeij, Sinclair) 1 cT , 5 2 » 

 Dunedin (Purdie) 1 J, Marlborough (SJcellon) 2 2 , type deniigera. 

 Exp. 34-44 millim. 



Larva bright reddish brown ; dorsal stripe broad, black ; sub- 

 dorsal stripe narrower, edged with white ; lateral stripe dull red, 

 white, and black ; ventral surface, head, and prolegs greenish grey 

 with black markings ; spiracles black. Food-plants, Grasses. 1 & 9. 



Sect. II. Antennas of male with bristles and cilia; pectus and abdomen more 

 smoothly scaled. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular and renifonn obsolete aiducias. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular s-epreseuted bj a streak 



confluent with the renifonn sfcropastis. 



C. Fore wing with tiie orbicular and reniform separate atrisf ri//a. 



1700. Persectania aulacias. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 8.) 



Leucania aiiloc/as, IVlpyr. Tr. i\.Z. Inst. xix. p. 11 (1887). 

 Lencania arotia, Meyr. Tr. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 11 (1887); Hudson, New 

 Zealand Moths ct Butterflies, p. 12, pi. iv. f. 18. 



Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with rufous; sides of 



2 c 2 



