GEAPHANIV. 



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tibifc fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest on basal segment, dorsally 

 clothed with rough hair at base and with lateral fringes. Fore wing rather 

 produced, the termen obliquely curbed; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 just below angle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from up^er angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. AntennjE of male bipectiuate with long branches, the apical part 

 serrate. 



1816. Graphania disjungens. 



Heliophohus disjungens, Wlk. xv. 1681 (18oS) ; Hudson, Xew Zealand 



Moths & Butterflies, p. 15, pi. v. f. 43. 

 Hadena nervata, Gruen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 40 (1868). 



Head and thorax white mixed with some bro^n ; frons with 

 black bar ; tegulaj with black medial line and brown tips ; patagia 

 edged with black ; tarsi with pale rings : tibdomen grey mixed with 

 brown. Fore wing white tinged iu parts with yellow, irrorated 



Yig. 138. — Graphatiia disjungens, (^ . \. 



with black and suffused with brown on medial and terminal areas ; 

 the veins white; subbasal line represented by oblique black strite 

 from costa and cell, the latter followed by a slight black streak in 

 submedian fold, then by obliquely placed black and white streaks 

 above and below vein 1 ; antemedial line black, interrupted at the 

 veins, oblique from costa to above vein 1 ; claviform defined by 

 black above ; orbicular and reniform small, with brown centres and 

 white annuli defined by black, the former round ; a medial lino 

 oblique from costa to below cell, then waved ; postmedial line luuu- 

 late, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and 

 angled inwards to antemedial line in submedian fold ; subterminal 

 line white, defined by more or less prominent somewhat dentate 

 black marks before and beyond it, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate to termen at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of black lunules. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia white at tips ; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown ; a discoidal lunule and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hab. New Zealand (Enys, Mathew, J. J. Walker), 4 c? , 1 $ type. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



