PEKSECTANIA, 



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half with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 very oblique black streak from base of costa ; the antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, very highly ^dentate, usually with an oblique 

 black streak before it above inner margin ; claviforni represented 

 by obscure black streaks above and below ; orbicular and reuiform 



Fig. 102. — Persectania evingi, (^ . 



small, with whitish annuli defined by black, the former elongate and 

 more or less confluent with the latter ; postmedial line bent out- 

 wards below costa, then very highly and rather irregularly dentate, 

 most strongly in submedian fold ; subterminal line whitish, defined 

 by black on outer side, the area before it pale, beyond it suffused 

 with brown or fuscous, arising from apex, with shortening denti- 

 tions on veins 6, 5, then dentate to termen on veins 4, 3, and 1 ; 

 a terminal series of triangular black points ; cilia intersected with 

 whitish. Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal ai-ea paler or nearly 

 white ; cilia white, brownish at base ; the undei'side white, a small 

 discoidal spot, the terminal area fuscous from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. ign., type $ aversn and type $ per acuta ; Queensland, 

 1 2 ; New South Wales, (Eaj/nor) 4^,2 J ; Victoria, Gisborne 

 (Lyell) 2 cJ ; S. Australia (BaJcewell) 1 5; Tasmania, Hobart, 

 (Norrnnn)! S , (Butler, Smith, AUport) 2(5', 3 5; j^ew Zealand, 

 (./. J. Walker) 1 $, Auckland {O.dey, Sinclair) 1 c? , 5 $ , 

 Dunedin (Purdie) 1 cS , Marlborough (Skellon) 2 $ , type deniigera. 

 Exp. 34-44 millim. 



Larva bright reddish brown ; dorsal stripe broad, black ; sub- 

 dorsal stripe narrower, edged with white ; lateral stripe dull red, 

 white, and black; ventral surface, head, and prolegs greenish grey 

 with black markings ; spiracles black. Food-plants, Grasses, 1 & 9. 



Sect. II. AntennfE of male with bristles and cilia ; pectus and abdomen more 

 smoothly scaled. 



A. Fore wing with the orbicular and renifonn obsolete aulacias. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular represented by a streak 



confluent with the reniform sferopa.ftis. 



C. Fore wing with tlie orbicular and reniform separate atristriga. 



1700. Persectania aulacias. (Plate LXXXIX. fig. 8.) 



Leucania aulacias^, Meyr. Tr. N.Z. Inst. xix. p. 11 (1887). 

 Leiicania arotis, Meyr. Tr. N.Z. Inst. xis. p. 11 (1887); Hudson, New 

 Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 12, pi. iv. f. 18. . 



Head and thorax ochreous slightly tinged with rufous ; sides of 



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