230 NOCTtTlD^. 



irrorufcd with fuscous, a slight discoidal luiiule and curved post- 

 medial line. 



llah. New Zealand {Enys, Matheiv), 3 c? , Mt. Arthur, Rakaia. 

 Exji. 40 millim. 



1529. Hyssia moderata. 



Agrofh moderata, Wlk. xrxii. 705 (1805); Hudson, New Zealand Moths & 



Butterflies, p. 9. 

 Eumichtis sistetis, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mafj. v. p. 39 (1868). 

 Agrotis mitis. Bull. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 383, pi. 42. f. 5. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown : abdomen brownish 

 grey. Fore wing brownish grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 subbasal line represented by black stride from costa and cell slightly 

 defined by grey on outer side ; antemedial Hue indistinct, double, 

 filled in with grey, irregularly dentate ; claviform obsolete or small 

 and slightly defined by fuscous : orbicular and reniform wath greyish 

 annuli defined by fuscous, the former round or somewhat elongate 

 elliptical ; a medial shade oblique towards costa and somewhat 

 dentate below the cell ; postmedial line slightly defined by grey on 



Fig. 58. — Hyssia moderata, J . i. 



outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some wdiite points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line formed by a series of small grey and fuscous dentate marks 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal half 

 paler in male ; cilia white, yellowish or brownish at base ; the 

 underside grey-white with slight discoidal lunule, curved postmedial 

 line, and diffused terminal band. 



Ah. 1 . m iiis. Much greyer ; fore wing with the markings indistinct 

 except the medial shade. 



Ilah. New Zealand (J. J. Walker), 3 J , Auckland (Oxleij), 1 c? , 



1 2 type, (Enys) 3d' type mitis, Otago (Mutton) 1^1$, (Mathew) 



2 c? , 2 $ , Dunedin (Purdie) 1 d • Evji. 36-40 millim. 



1530. Hyssia sminthistis, n. sp. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 17.) 



(^ . Head and thorax dark brown slightly irrorated with grey ; 

 abdomen brown. Fore wing dark brown slightly irrorated with 

 grey; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, angled inwards on 

 vein 1 ; claviform absent : orbicular and reniform small, indistinct, 



