370 NOCTUIDj;. 



surface usually reddish brown ; lateral line broad and black ; a 

 scries of subdorsal black stripes; ventral surface green. Sometimes 

 the markings are hardly visible, and the colour is entirely green or 

 brown. Food-plant, Plantayo. 



*1674. Morrisonia paracausta. 



Momestra paracausta, MejT. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 15 (1886) ; Hudson, 

 New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 15, pi. iv. f. 28. 



Head whitish mixed with reddish ochreous, the frons with two 

 black bars ; thorax and abdomen grey mixed with white and 

 black ; tegulfE mixed with reddish ochreous and with medial black 

 line ; patagia black at outer edge ; legs ochreous white mixed 

 with black. Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with fuscous and 

 whitish towards costa, in female whiter ; a sinuous black streak 

 below cell to postmedial line defined below by brown to ante- 

 medial line, then by a brown patch above which is dilated on 

 terminal area to apex and tornus ; the lines slender, dentate, the 

 antemedial line defined with whitish on inner side ; claviforra 

 obsolete ; orbicular and reniform hardly traceable ; postmedial 

 line incurved in submedian interspace, where it is defined by white 

 on outer side ; subterminal line represented by dentate white marks on 

 veins 4 and 3 extending to termen and a double mark above tornus ; 

 cilia ochreous mixed with whitish and fuscous. Hind wing grey 

 mixed with white ; an indistinct postmedial line and interrupted 

 terminal line. 



Bab. New Zealand, Mount Arthur, Castle Hill, Invercargill. 

 Bx-iy. 37 millim. This species is unknown to me. 



Larva closely resembles that of M. ochthistis. 



*1675. Morrisonia hromias. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 22.) 



Melanchra bromias, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1902, p. 273. 



(S . Head and thorax grey tinged with rufous and mixed with 

 fuscous ; frons with blackish lateral bars ; tegulse with diffused 

 blackish medial band ; patagia with black line near upper edge ; 

 abdomen pale rufous dorsally tinged with fuscous. Fore wing 

 brown-pink suffused with fuscous, leaving pinkish patches near 

 base, on inner medial area and beyond the cell ; a black streak 

 below base of cell and an oblique streak above inner margin before 

 middle ; subbasal line represented by two slight striae from costa ; 

 antemedial line defined by pinkish on inner side, oblique from costa 

 to submedian fold, angled inwards on veins 1 and again to inner 

 margin ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 form pinkish and fuscous with slight grey ocelli defined by black, 

 the former rather quadrate, open above and below, the latter with 

 whitish discoidal lunule at centre ; postmedial line rather indistinct, 

 defined by pinkish on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, strongly in submedian 



