TMETOLOPflOXA. 



471 



1818. Tmetolopliota propria. 



Leucania propria, Wlk. ix. Ill (1S56) ; Bull. Voy. ' Erebus' &' Terror,' 

 pi. ix. f. 4 ; Hudson, New Zealand Muths & Butterflies, p. 11, pi. i7. f. 13, 



Head and thorax ochreous brown with a reddish or olive tinge ; 

 tegulae with black and white medial line ; fore and mid tibiae striped 

 whitish and black ; abdomen ochreous brown, tinged with rufous 

 towards extremity or more ochreous. Fore wing pale grey -brown, 

 usually more or less tinged with rufous or sometimes with ochreous ; 

 a prominent black fascia below base of cell to below origin of vein 2; 

 the extremity of median nervure with diffused fuscous on it, with 

 more or less prominent black streak above it and base of vein 4 ; 



Fig. 140. — Tmetolophot a. propria, cJ. ^. 



orbicular and reniforra small, greyish, obscurely defined by black, 

 the former round, reduced to a slight black streak representing its 

 lower edge or obsolete ; a postmedial scries of black points, bent 

 outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, met at vein 4 hy a 

 more or less prominent triangular dark shade from termeu below 

 apex ; a prominent terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, or ochreous tinged with fuscous brown, the cilia 

 ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the costal area slightly tinged 

 with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules. 



Hah. jS'evv Zealand (Earl), 1 ^ type, (Em/s) 1 J", (Mathew) 

 1 c? , 1 ? , (•/. •/. ^ValL-er) 2 S , Marlborough (SJcellon), 2 J , 1 $ , 

 Blenheim, Mt. Arthur, Alt. Hutt. Fxj). 32-38 millim. 



*1819. Tmetolophota polygona. (Plate XCIV. fig. 10.) 

 Tmetolophota polygona, Druce, ined. 



5 . Head and thorax purplish grey ; palpi and sides of frons, a 

 bar above it, and two patches on vertex of head black ; tegulae 

 yellow-brown, with black medial line and purple-grey tips ; pro- 

 thorax and patagia with black patches, thorax with dorsal black 

 stripe ; pectus brown in front ; abdomen purple-grey, dorsally 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing purple-grey slightly tinged with 

 brown, the markiugs deep black defined by olive-ochreous, the 

 lines obsolete ; a streak below base of costa and another below 

 base of cell ; an oblit^ue streak above middle of inner margin only 



