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orbicular and rcniform defined by rufous, the former elongate 

 elliptical, open above and with a black point on its inner side, the 

 latter more or less filled in wi^h black; traces of a waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line very indistinct, double filled in by paler colour, 

 dentate and produced to a double series of dark points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, sometimes 

 nearly obsolete, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subtermiual 

 line represented by a series of pale and rufous dentate marks, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, with 

 deep rufous patches beyond it at middle and tornus ; a terminal 

 series of dark points. Hind wing rufous suffused with fuscous, the 

 termen and cilia redder; the underside pale rufous Avith some 

 darker irroration, a slight discoidal spot and traces of a postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. New Zealand {J. J. Wallcer), 1 6 , Otago (Hutton), 1 d 

 type, Dunedin (Furdie), 2 c? , 1 $ , Mount Arthur, Castle Hill, 

 Lake Wakatipu. Kvj). 44 millim. 



1685. Morrisonia ustistriga. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 29.) 



Xylina nstidriya, Wlk. xi. 630 (1857) ; Hudson, New Zealand Moths & 



Butterflies, p. 2fi. pi. t. f. 20. 

 Xylina lignisecta, Wlk. xi. G31 (1857). 



Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with dark brown and more 

 or less suffused with ferruginous ; tegulae with slight dark medial 

 line ; abdomen grey suffused with ferruginous except at base. Fore 

 wing purplish grey, irrorated with dark brown and more or less 

 suffused with ferruginous ; subbasal line represented by double 

 black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line represented by 

 double black striae from costa, then very indistinct, single, oblique 

 to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein ] and outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform strongly defined by black, acute at 

 extremity, often with a black streak from it to postmedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, strongly defined by black, the former 

 open above, produced on outer side and often connected by a black 

 streak with the latter ; postmedial line represented by double striae 

 at costa, then indistinct, minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, 

 in submedian fold oblique and prominently black defined by white 

 on outer side, some white points beyond it on costa ; subtermiual 

 line grey, defined by slight dentate black marks before it below costa 

 and at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, 

 in submedian fold angled inwards and connected with postmedial 

 line by brown suffusion with a black streak on it ; a terminal series 

 of black lunules ; cilia grey, with a rufous line through them. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside 

 pale irrorated with brown and the costal area suffused with rufous, 

 a discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



5 without any ferruginous or rufous tint. 



Hah. New Zealand (Colenso, Bolton, J. J. Wcdl-er\ 4 d , 4 $ , 



