HTSSIA. 



281 



with obscure grey annuli ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, 

 minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; subtermiual line very indistinct, whitish, inter- 

 rupted, excurved slightly at v6in 7 and middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing dark brown ; cilia brown with fine pale 

 line at base and whitish tips; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a small discoidal spot and traces of a curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. New Zealand (MattJieiv), 1 J type. Ea^?. 38 millim. 



1531. Hyssia nullifera. 



Agrotis nullifera, Wlk. xi. 742 (1857) ; Butl. Voy. Erebus & Terror, pi. ix. 



f. 5; Hudson's New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 9, pi. iv. f. 9 and 



pi. ii. f. 11. 

 Alysia, specijica, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. t. p. 3 (1868). 



Head and thorax grey and pale reddish brown mixed ; abdomen 

 pale ochreous brown. Fore wing pale grey-brown with a reddish 

 tinge ; traces of a postmedial line dentate and produced to rather 



Fig. 59. — Hyssia miUifera, cJ. 



more distinct points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved; traces of a curved subterminal 

 series of white points in the interspaces. Hind wing pale brown 

 with a slight ochreous tinge. 



Hub. New Zealand (Earl), X^ type, {Matthew) 1 $ , {J. J. 

 Walker) 1 $ , N. Island, Taupo,Wellington, S. Island, Mount Arthur, 

 Christchurch, Eakaia. Eay. 62 millim. 



Larva stout, bright yellowish brown, much paler below and 

 thickly irrorated with white ; dorsal line slight ; subdorsal and 

 lateral lines dull broAvn with a series of elongate white spots below 

 each ; spiracles and dorsal surface of posterior somites black. Food- 

 plant, Acipliylla squarrosa, one larva feeding in centre of each 

 tussock. 5. 



*lo32. Hyssia senatoria. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 24.) 



Mamestra senatoria. Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 461 (1900) ; Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. 



S . Head and thorax clothed with dark brown and greyish hair 



