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strongly at middle, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous or with 

 dark streaks on the veins, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate 

 at veins 4 and 3; termen crenulate, with waved black line. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown with a reddish tinge ; the underside pale 

 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Xew Zealand, Dunedin (Enys, Purdie, J. J. Walker), 2 (^ , 

 5 5 J Christchurch, type f in Coll. Meyrick, Wellington. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



Lai-va. Green, with white lines and points on dorsal area and 

 yellow points on ventral ; a pink lateral stripe on first five and last 

 two somites, in early stages entire ; claspers pinkish. Food-plant, 

 MelicOjpe simplex. 



B. Pectus and ventral surface of abdomen in male normally 

 scaled. 



a. Fore wing with the subterminal line not dentate tartaraa. 



b. Fore wing with thesubterminal line more or less dentate. 

 a^. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. 



a"^. Fore wing with the cell fillerl in with black omoplaca. 



h''. Fore wing with the cell not filled in with black confusa. 



h^. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. 

 a'-. Fore wing with the subterminal line pale, wall- 

 defined, 

 a'. Fore wing with the postmedial line acutely angled 



inwards in submedian fold lignana. 



P. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved in 



submedian fold morosa. 



h'^. Fore wing with the subterminal line represented by 

 indistinct dentate dark marks. 

 «'. Fore wing with black suffusion on inner area ... prionistis. 

 b^. Fore wing without black suffusion on inner area. 

 a*. Fore wing with the ground-colour brownish 



grey temperata. 



b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour purplish 



grey phricias. 



1691. Morrisonia tartaraea. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 1.) 



Graphifhora tartaraa, Butl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 384, pi. xlii. f. 2; Hudson, 

 New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 21, pi. v. f. 6. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown, the head and tegular greyer ; 

 abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft rufous. Fore wing dark brown 

 tinged with grey, the inner medial and terminal areas with rufous ; 

 subbasal line double filled in with grey, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line double filled in with grey, waved ; 

 claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 reddish incompletely defined by black, the former oblique elliptical ; 

 the area between and beyond them darker ; a dark medial shade, 

 oblique from costa to median nervure and angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold ; postmedial line represented by double dark striae 

 from costa, then bv a slight series of points, bent outwards below 

 costa and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line blackish towards 

 costa, then pale defined by rufous, angled outwards at vein 7 and 



