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fold, some pale points beyond it on costa ; siibterminal line defined 

 by the area beyond it being blackish, with somewhat dentate black 

 marks beyond it and before it [n submedian fold, dentate at veins 

 7, 6, 4, 3, and excurved to tornus, some whitish on it at veins 7, 6, 

 3, and a diffused patch at inner margin ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous ; a fino 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish with a brown line through them ; the 

 underside greyish irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Xew ZEALAifD, Chatham I., type t in Coll, Meyrick. Exp. 

 42 millim. 



*1676. Morrisonia agorastis. (Plate LXXXYIII. fig. 23.) 



Mamestra agorastis, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 18 (1887) ; Hudson, 

 New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 18, pi. v. f. 30. 



S . Head and thorax bright red-brown with a purplish tinge 

 and mixed with a few white scales ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore 

 wing purplish red-brown irrorated with grey ; subbasal line defined 

 by grey on each side and waved from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, waved and angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; claviform small, indistinctly defined by grey 

 and blackish scales ; orbicular and renif orm moderate, with fuscous 

 centres and white annuli defined by black, the former rounded and 

 slightly produced on outer side ; traces of a diffused curved medial 

 line ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, minutely den- 

 tate, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa : subterminal line whitish, some- 

 what dentate, defined on inner side by very indistinct small dentate 

 brown marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing ochreous, 

 uniformly suffused with brown ; cilia ochreous white with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, 

 especially on costal and terminal areas, a discoidal spot, traces of a 

 sinuous postmedial line and some black lunules on termen. 



Bah. New Zealand, Wellington, Akaroa, Lake Guyon, type f ^ 

 in Coll. Meyrick. Exp. 38 millim. 



1677. Morrisonia mucens. 



Sepfis nmcens, Hiibn. Zutr. Ex. Si,'hmett. iii. p. 9, ff. 415, 41G (18127) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 231. 

 Xi/lim multifaria, Wlk. xi. 6l'8 (1857). 

 Xylina spoliata, Wlk. xi. 759 (1857). 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with dark brown ; f rons 

 with black bar; tegulae with black medial line; patagia edged with 

 black; abdomen brownish ochreous irrorated with black. Fore 

 wing ochreous white more or less tinged with rufous, sometimes 

 nearly uniformly suffused with dark brown : a sinuous black streak 

 below base of cell, and a streak above inner margin rear base ; 



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