174 NOCTUID^. 



less irrorated with black ; th-e subbasal line black, defined by whitish 

 on outer side from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line 

 defined bj' whitish on inner side, angled outwards below costa and 

 in cell and very strongly above inner margin ; claviform more or 

 less strongly defined by black ; orbicular aud reniform rather small, 

 defined by black and with slight fuscous centres, the former elliptical, 

 some black sufi^usion between them and beyond the reniform ; the 

 postmedial line dentate, slightly bent outwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then oblique aud incurved in submedian fold ; a 

 subterminal series of pale spots with dentate black marks on their 

 inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia with a pale line 

 at base. Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous, especially towards 

 termen ; cilia pale with a brown line through them ; the underside 

 grey irrorated with brown, a prominent black discoidal spot. 



Hah. New Zealand {Hutton, Slcelton, Purdie, Ilathew), 5 (^ ,3^- ■, 

 types sericea and inconspicua. Exp. 38 millim. 



*301. Euxoa ceropachoides. (Plate LXI. fig, 7.) 



Agrotis ceropachoides, Gueii. Eut. Mo. Mag. v. p. 39 (1868) ; Hudson's 

 New Zealand Moths, p. 32, pi. vi. f. 1. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen grey tinged witli brown, the anal tuft pale 

 rufous. Fore wing grey tinged with greenish and thickly irrorated 

 with dark brown ; a semicircular whitish mark below base of cell ; 

 the antemedial line ill-defined, whitish, angled outwards below costa, 

 where there is a dark striga on its outer side ; orbicular and reni- 

 form grey, indistinctly defined by blackish, the former rather 

 produced on outer side ; the postmedial liue ill-defined, whitish, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, where there is a dark striga on 

 its inner side, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a pale subterminal 

 line, slightly defined on inner side at costa with blackish, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, 2 ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia white at tips. Hind wing uniform 

 grey-brown, the cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with brown. 



Hah. New Zealand, Rakaia {Fereday) in Coll. Meyrick. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



302. Euxoa cinerea. 



Noct'iia cinerea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. 80. 3 (1776); Hiibn. Samml. Eur. 



Sehmett., Noct. ff. 155, 156; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 274, pi. 71. ff. 5, 6; 



Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 127 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 178, 



pi. 17 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 148. 

 Noctua ohscura, Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. fl\ 157, 490 (1827). 

 Agrotis fusca, Boisd. Ic. Lep. Eur. pi. 78. f. 4 (1832). 

 Orthosia vvurina, Ev. Bull. Mosc. iii. p. 213 (1848). 



Ac/rofis alpigcna, Tur. Bull. Soc. Ent. Ital. svi. p. 75 (1883) ; Calb. Iris, i. 

 ■ p. 226, pi. 12. £F. 7, 8. 



