592 



NOCTUID^. 



scales ; slight white points in and beyond lower angle of cell ; a 

 curved postmcdial series of white points on the veins. Hind wing 

 ochreous brown ; cilia white, tinged with ochreous at base. Under- 

 side of fore wing with the marginal areas suffused with whitish ; 

 hind wing whitish irrorated with brown. 



Hah. New Zealand, Dunedin (Purdie), 1 6 type. E.%y. 36 

 millim. 



Sect. III. Autennie of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing witb dark streak in base of submedian fold ... semivittata. 



B. Fore wing without dark streak in base of submedian fold, hienheimensis. 



2041. Leucania semivittata. 



Leucania semivittata, Wlk. xxxii. 6'28 (1865): 

 Moths & Butterflies, p. 13, pi. iv. ff. 21, 22. 



Hudson, New Zealand 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; spurs banded 

 with black ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with brown. Fore wing 



Fig. 1G9. — Leucania semimttata, J. i. 



ochreous ; a rufous fascia below the cell to below origin of vein 2, 

 faintly continued as a curved mark to vein 2 beyond the cell, and a 

 slight oblique streak above inner margin near base ; a subbasal 

 black point in cell and three antemedinl points on the veins ; three 

 points in upper part of outer half of cell and a slight streak in lower 

 part ; a rufous shade below median nervure continued beyond the 

 cell to meet a slight triangular shade from termen below a-pex ; a 

 black point just beyond lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of 

 points bent outwards below costa, oblique below vein 4; a terminal 

 series of points. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous; cilia 

 ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the costal area slightly tinged 

 with rufous, a discoidal point, some postmedial streaks on the veins, 

 and some stride on termen sometimes present. 



ffah. New Zealand (J. J. Wall-er), 1 d" , 1 2 , Auckland (O.flcy), 

 1 J type, (Mathetv) 1 d , 1 ? . Krp. 42 millim. 



*2042. Leucania hienheimensis. (Plate XCVI. fig. 3.) 



Leucania hlenheimen&is, Fereday, Trans. N.Z. Inst. xv. p. 196 (1882) ; 

 Hudson, N. Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 13, pi. iv. f. 23. 



S . Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; sides of palpi 

 and frons blackish ; jiectus and fore legs in front fuscous ; fore tarsi 

 black ringed with ochreous ; abdomen ochrcoi^s with a slight rufous 



