370 NOCTUIU^. 



the teriiu'ii crenulate, with series of white points on veins and 

 small black lunules in interspaces. Hind wing dark reddish 

 brown ; the underside paler and irrorated with white, a dark 

 discoidal lunulo. 



Hah. Nkw Zealand {Enys, Skellon, Mathew), 4 c?, 2 5 , type. 

 Eivp. 36 niillim. 



Larva, irndson, >>>\v Zealand Moths & Butternies, p. 20, pi. iii. f. 16. 



Very pale grcon above with numerous white lines and dots, dark 

 green below with yellow dots ; a dorsal series of black spots forming 

 a triangle on each somite ; thoracic and posterior somites with pink 

 lateral stripe, entire in the young stages. Food-plant, Melicope 

 simplex. lO. 



1G83. Morrisonia infensa. (Plate LXXXYIII. fig. 27.) 



Orfhosia infensa, Wlk. xi. 748 (1857) ; Iludson, New Zealand MotliB & 



Butterflies, p. 23, pi. v. f. 12. 

 Mamestra arachnias, Meyr. Traus. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 23 (1887). 



2 . Head and thorax bright rufous ; frons with black bar ; tegulae 

 with black medial line defined by white behind: fore tibiae whitish; 

 abdomen dull reddish brown. Fore wing bright rufous, the veins 

 rather darker ; a white streak on subcostal nervure to antemcdial 

 line ; subbasal line represented by a very oblique white-detined 

 black striga from costa ; antemcdial line with black and white 

 striae at costa, then indistinct, double, dentate, oblique to submedian 

 fold ; claviform and reniform absent ; orbicular defined by a curved 

 white streak above ; postmedial line with black and white striae at 

 costa, then indistinct, double, highly dentate, strongly bent outwards 

 below^ costa and angled inwards in submedian fold ; subterminal 

 ine represented by a series of very slight white marks angled 

 inwards in submedian fold. Hind wing fuscous with a reddish 

 tinge ; the cilia rufous ; the underside ochreous white tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. New Zealand, 1 $ type, X, Island, Napier, S. Island, 

 Blenheim. Exp. 40 millim. 



1684. Morrisonia rubescens. (Plate LXXXYIII. fig. 28.) 



Xylofjhasia rubescens, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 489 (1879); HudsoD, New 

 Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 25, pi. v. f. 18. 



Head and thorax pale ferruginous ; tegulae with more or less 

 developed black medial line ; patagia with some black scales near 

 upper edge ; abdomen pale ferruginous, sometimes dorsally tinged 

 with fuscous. lore wing pale ferruginous; the veins with streaks 

 formed of dark scales ; the medial area below the cell usually 

 suffused wnth darker ferruginous ; subbasal line represented by 

 doable rufous striae from costa and cell ; anteraedial line indistinct, 

 double, highly dentate ; claviform indistinctly defined by rufous ; 



