5!»2 



NOCTUID'j:. 



scali's ; slijrbt white ))uiiits in :iih1 beyond iowei' niiglc of cell; a 

 curved po-stmedinl series of -wliife points on the veins. Hind wing 

 ochreous brown : cilia white, tinged with oclireous at base. Under- 

 side of fore wing with the marginal areas suffused with whitish ; 

 hind wins whitish iiroratcd with brown. 



JIah. New Zealand, Dunedin {Purdie), 1 d tj'pP- ■E.'iy. 36 

 millim. 



Sect. III. .\ntennjB of male iiiiiiutely serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with dark sti-eak in base of sitliniedian fold ... ^emivittairi. 

 V^. l'\irp wing without dark .streak in base of submedian fold, hlenheimensis. 



2041 . Leucania semivittata. 



Leucania semiviltaia, Wlk. xxxii. 6"28 (18(55); Hudson, New Zealand 

 Moths & Butterflies, p. 13, pi. iv. tf. 21, 22. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; spurs banded 

 ■with black ; abdomen ochreous irrorated with brown. Fore wing 



Fig. 1G9. — Letwaiiia semivittata, J. \. 



ochreous ; a rufous fascia below the cell to below origin of vein 2. 

 faintly continued as a curved mark to vein 2 beyond the cell, and a 

 slight oblique streak above inner margin near base ; a subbasal 

 black ])oiut in cell and three antemedial points on the veins ; three 

 points in upper part of outer half of cell and a slight streak in lower 

 part ; a rufous shade below median nervure continued beyond the 

 cell to meet a slight triangular shade from termen below apex; a 

 black point just beyond lower angle of cell ; a postmedial series of 

 points bent outwards below costa, oblique below vein 4 ; a terminal 

 series of points. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous; cilia 

 ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the costal area slightly tinged 

 with rufous, a discoidal point, some postmedial streaks on the veins, 

 and some striae on termen sometimes present. 



Hah. IS'ew Zealand {J. J. Wall-er), 1 c? , 1 $ , Auckland (O.vley), 

 1 J type, (Mathew) 1 d , 1 $ . Exp. 42 millim. 



*2042. Leucania hlenheimensis. (Plate XCYI. fig. 3.) 



Leucania hlenheimensis, Fereday, Trans. N.Z. Inst. sv. p. 196 (1882) ; 

 Hudson, N. Zealand Moths &'Eutterflies, p. 13, pi. iv. f. 23. 



J . Head and thorax ochieous tinged with rufous ; sides of palpi 

 and frons blackish ; jiectus and fore legs in front fuscous ; fore tarsi 

 black ringed with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous with a slight rufous 



