388 KociriBj:. 



palpi and frons with some black scales ; tegulse with black medial 

 line ; upper edge of patagia and prothoracic crest with some black 

 scales ; legs with fine blackish streaks ; abdomen ochreous irrorated 

 M'ith brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous ; the veins 

 black-brown, defined by fine whitish streaks; the interspaces with 

 diffused reddish-brown streaks ; traces of a sinuous streak ])elow 

 the cell from base to below end of cell, upturned at extrerait)- ; a 

 slight antemedial point on vein 1 ; a slight oblique streak above 

 middle of inner margin ; a postmedial series of black points on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4 ; faint 

 traces of a highly irregularly dentate pale subtermiual line repre- 

 sented by an oblique streak below vein 7 and another from vein 3 

 at termen to submedian fold. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia 

 grey ; the underside ochreous white, irrorated and partly suifused 

 with brown, a slight discoidal lunule, indistinct sinuous postmedial 

 line, and some black striae on termen. 



Ab. 1. arotis. Hind wing with the cilia white, tinged with 

 ochreous and brown at base. 



Hub. Neav Zealand (J. J. Walker), 1 c? , Wellington, Blenheim, 

 Christchurch, in Coll. Meyrick, llakaia. Edy. 46 millim. 



1701. Persectania steropastis. (riate LXXXIX. fig. 9.) 



Mamestra steropastis, Mevr. Tr. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 22 (1887) ; Hudson, 

 New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 23, pi. v. ff. 10, 11. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous; sides of palpi and frons 

 blackish ; tegulte with medial black line. Fore wing rufous ; the 

 veins with dark streaks ; a dark streak slightly defined by grey 

 above below base of cell and another above inner margin before 

 middle ; antemedial line obsolete towards costa, very strongly angled 

 outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards 

 on vein 1 ; a dark streak in lower part of cell ; reniform repre- 

 sented by slight dark and whitish marks on upper discocellular aud 

 lower angle of cell, and a curved streak below angle ; postmedial 

 line very strongly angled inwards in submedian fold and outwards 

 on vein 1, otherwise obsolete; interspaces of terminal area with 

 dark streaks, the subtermiual line being represented by oblique 

 white streaks below veins 7, 4, 3. Hind wing deep fuscous brown, 

 the cilia pale at tips ; the underside grey tinged with reddish and 

 irrorated with black. 



Hah. New Zealand, Dunedin (Purdie), 3 c? , 2 J , Akaroa (J. J. 

 Walker), 1 S, Napier, Blenheim, Christchurch. Eajj. 40-44 

 millim. Type f in Coll. Meyrick. 



1702. Persectania atristriga. 



Xi/lina utrisfncja, Wlk. xxxiii. 756 (1805); Hudson, New Zealand MotLs 



'& Butterflies', p. 10, pi. iv. f. 12. 

 Mamestra aniipodu, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 23 (1874). 



Head aud thorax purplish or red-brown, sometimes brown 



