TMETOLOPflOTA. 471 



1818. Tmetolophota propria. 



Leucania propria, Wlk. ix. Ill (1856); Bntl. Voy. ' Erebus' & 'Terror,' 

 ^\. ix. f. 4 ; Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 1 1, pi. iv. f. 13. 



Head and thorax ochreous brown with a reddish or olive tinge; 

 tegulae with black and white medial line ; fore and mid tibiae striped 

 whitish and black ; abdomen ochreous brown, tinged with rufous 

 towards extremity or more ochreous. Fore wing pale grey-brown, 

 usually more or less tinged with rufous or sometimes with ochreous ; 

 a prominent black fascia below base of cell to below origin of vein 2; 

 the extremity of median nervure with ditfused fuscous on it, with 

 more or less prominent black streak above it and base of vein 4 ; 



Fig. Ii0.— Tmc(olo2}ho(a. propria, (^ . \. 



orbicular and reniform small, greyish, obscurely defined by black, 

 the former round, reduced to a slight black streak representing its 

 lower edge or obsolete ; a postmedial series of black points, bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, met at vein 4 by a 

 more or less prominent triangular dark shade from termen below 

 apex; a prominent terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, or ochreous tinged with fuscous brown, the cilia 

 ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the costal area slightly tinged 

 with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunulcs. 



Hah. New Zealand (Earl), 1 J type, (Enifs) 1 (^ , (Mathew) 

 1 J, 1 5 , (</. '/• Walker) 2 J, Marlborough (Skellon), 2 J , 1 $ , 

 Blenheim, Mt. Arthur, Alt. Hutt. F.V2). 32-38 millim. 



*1819. Tmetolophota polygona. (Plate XCIV. fig. 10.) 



Tmetolophota polijgona, Druce, ined. 



$ . Head and thorax purplish grey ; palpi and sides of frons, a 

 bar above it, and two patches on vertex of head black ; tegulae 

 yellow-brown, with black medial line and purple-grey tips ; pro- 

 thorax and patagia with black patches, thora.^t with dorsal black 

 etripe ; pectus brown in front ; abdomen purple-grey, dorsally 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing purple-grey slightly tinged with 

 brown, the markings deep black defined by olivo-ochreous, the 

 lines obsolete; a streak below base of costa and another below 

 base of cell ; an obli(|uc streak above nudillc of inner margin only 



