MORRISONIA. 385 



brown ; a pale rufous fascia in discal fold from before middle to 

 subterminal line ; a similar fascia in submedian fold extending to 

 inner margin at base and to teriiien ; the inner area suffused with 

 fuscous from before middle to near tornus ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 angled outwai'ds below costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 double, dentate, strongly angled outwards below cell and above 

 inner margin ; orbicular and reniform indistinct and ill-defined, 

 except the latter on outer side, where it has some diffused black 

 beyond it at lower angle of cell, the former rounded, the veins 

 beyond the cell grey defined by fine black streaks ; postmedial line 

 obsolete except for two dark sti'iae from costa and in submedian 

 interspace, where it is strongly angled inwards ; subterminal line 

 represented by oblique strigaj from termen at and below apex, then 

 by conjoined deutate rufous marks ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia grey iatersected with brown. Hind wing dark 

 red-brown ; cilia white at tips ; the underside pale, suffused and 

 irrorated with pale rod-brown ; a small discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Xew Zealand, Wellington, type t $ in Coll. Meyrick, 

 Rakaia. Exp. 48 millim. 



1697. Morrisonia temperata. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 6.) 



Briiophila temperata, V\Yk. xv. 1648 (1858) ; Hudson, New Zealand Moths 



& Butterflies, p. 9. 

 Xijlina inceptura, Wlk. xv. 1730 (18o8). 

 Xylina deceptura, Wlk. xv. 1737 (1858). 



S . Head and thorax reddish or dark brown and grey mixed ; 

 abdomen pale reddish brown. Fore wing grey-brown with a 

 reddish tinge and some fuscous irroration, the veins streaked with 

 fuscous ; subbasal line represented by double dark striae from costa 

 and cell ; antemedial line represented by double dark points on 

 costa, median nervure, and vein 1 ; claviform sometimes partly 

 defined by fuscous ; orbicular and reniform with slight whitish, 

 annuli defined by fuscous, the former rather elongate elliptical, 

 the latter somewhat angled inwards on median nervure ; postmedial 

 line more or less indistinct, dentate, and with a series of points 

 beyond it on the veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by some more or less 

 indistinct dentate dark marks at middle ; a terminal series of dark 

 points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia pale at tips ; the under- 

 side pale with slight discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 

 $ greyer. 



Hah. New Zealand (Churton), 3 J , 2 $ , type and types inceptura 

 nd deceptura. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



1698. Morrisonia phricias. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 7.) 



Mamestra phricias, Meyr. Trans. N.Z. Inst. xx. p. 46 (188S); Hudson, 

 New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 27, pi. v. f^ 22. 



Palpi with the 3rd joint long and dilated at extremity ; thorax 

 VOL. V. 1' c 



