MORRISONIA. 



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Sect. III. Aiitennie of male ciliated. 



A. Pectus and ventral surface of iibdomen of male clothed with 

 long rough hair, forming lateral frieges on the latter which 

 has long tufts of hair from base. 



Fore wing with the costal area paler than ground-colour. . 

 Fore wing with the costal area not paler than ground- 

 colour. 



a. 

 b. 



stipftta. 



Fore wing with the subterminal line I'ufous dotata. 



Fore wing with the subtermiual line whitish ochthistis. 



1688. Morrisonia stipata. 



Xylma sdpafa, Wlk. xxxiii. 753 (1865) ; Hudson, New Zealand Moths & 

 Butterflies, p. 25, pi. v. f. 17. 



Head and thorax ferruginous mixed with ochreous and usually 

 more or less black ; fore tibiae pale -with rufous points, the tarsi 

 ringed with black. Fore wing ochreous suffused with rufous, and 

 more or less with fuscous except on costal and postmedial areas : 

 the veins irrorated with dark scales ; the subbasal line rq>resented 



Fig. 100. — Morrisonia stipata, ^ . 



by double dark striae from costa and an ochreous striga from c ell 

 intersecting an ill-defined black streak above vein 1 ; a dentate 

 mark above inner margin near base; antemedial line double, filled 

 in with ochreous, waved, oblique from costa to median nervure, 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform short and broad, defined by 

 black; orbicular and reniform defined by blackish, the former very 

 oblique elliptical, with rufous centre, the latter with fuscous centre 

 and incomplete ochreous annulus forming a lunule on outer edge ; 

 an indistinct medial line oblique from costa to median nervure, then 

 waved ; postmedial line double filled in with ochreous, dentate an d 

 produced to a double series of dark points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa and incurved below vein 4, some pale points on 

 costa beyond it ; subtermiual line ochreous more or less completel y 

 defined by rufous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 an d 

 dentate to termen on veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it suffused with 

 fuscous except at apex ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia chequered rufous and fuscous. Hind wing fuscous with a 

 rufous tinge; a pale subtermiual spot on vein 2 ; cilia ochreous 



intersected with rufous ; the underside 



ochreous tinged 



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