384 NOCTUID^. 



above and with black point on its inner side, the latter with its 

 lower part filled in with fuscous and slifihtly angled inwards on 

 median ncrvure ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmcdial line 

 more or less indistinct, strongly dentate and produced to a series 

 of black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterrainal 

 line ochreous white, defined on inner side by fuscous marks at 

 middle and below vein 3, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to 

 terraen on veins 4 and 3 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

 wing fuscous, with slight pale mark on termen at submedian fold ; 

 cilia ochreous, with a brown line near base ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with fuscous, a discoidal spot and, more or less indistinct 

 postmedial line. 



flnh. New Zealaxd {Earl), 1 S typo, {Enifs) 1 $ , (Mathew) 1 $ , 

 Marlborough {Skellon) 1 $ , Wellington, Mount Hutt. E.^'p. 

 42 millim. 



1695. Morrisonia morosa. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 4.) 



Xylophasia morosa, Butl. Cisl. Ent. ii. 543 (1880). 



Mamestra pelistis, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xis. p. 20 (1887)"; Hudson, 

 N. Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 19, pi. v. ff. 3, 4. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey and a few dark 

 scales ; Irons with black bar ; tegulae with medial black line ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale brown, more or less 

 strongly suffused with purplish red ; subbasal line double, waved, 

 from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique ; 

 claviform small, defined bj* black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 fuscous centres, and pale anuuli defined by black, the former 

 round ; postmedial line indistinct, minutely dentate and produced 

 to black and pale points on the veins, bent outwards below costa 

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

 beyond it ; subterminal line grey or ochreous, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it suffused with 

 fuscous except at apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hind 

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

 whitish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Xew Zealand (Skellon, MaiJiew), 2 d" , 1 $ type, Wel- 

 lington, Paikakariki, Akaroa, type f 2)elistis in Coll. Meyrick, Lake 

 Coleridge. Exj). 40 millim. 



*169r). Morrisonia prionistis. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 5.) 



Mamestra prionistis, Meyr. Tr. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 27 (1887): Hudson, 

 N. Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 27, pi. \. f. 21. 



2 . Head and thorax grey mixed with pale brown ; sides of 

 palpi and frons with some dark brown ; tegulae dark brown near 

 tips ; patagia with black stripe on upper edge and on lower edge 

 near base; abdomen red-brown. Fore wing grey irrorated with 



