STMPISTIS. 413 



grej'ish, the anal tuft ochreous white ; legs fuscous ringed with 

 whitish. Fore wing deep fuscous slightly tinged with purple, 

 irrorated with a few ochreous-white scales ; a black acute triangular 

 mark on basal inner area containing a hooked ochreous-white mark ; 

 the lines indistinct, pale ; claviform represented by a short ochreous- 

 white mark ; orbicular moderate, round, with whitish aunulus ; 

 reniform ochreous white defined on inner side by fuscous, then by 

 pale ochreous and with a blackish quadrate spot between it and 

 orbicular ; subtermiual line hardly traceable ; a terminal series of 

 slight whitish points ; cilia fuscous. Hind wing deep fuscous, the 

 cilia whitish at tips. 



Hah. N. Zealand, Christchurch, Wellington, Canterbury, Lake 

 Coleridge, Rakaia. Exj^t. 26 millim. This species is unknown 

 to me. 



*2607. Sympistis iota. 



Miselia iota, Hudson, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xxxv. p. 243, pi. xxx. f. 3 (1903). 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; tegulae with two prominent 

 black marks ; abdomen grey. Fore wing brownish ochreous irro- 

 rated with black ; subbasal line prominent, black, forming a strong 

 hook outwards in submedian interspace ; antemedial line forming a 

 wedge-shaped black mark on costal area, then slightly sinuous ; a 

 diffused waved medial line, darker at costa ; a wedge-shaped black 

 mark on costa beyond middle with traces of a postmedial line arising 

 from it ; the postmedial area with a black-brown band, broader 

 towards costa, its inner edge sinuous and defined on outer side by 

 the pale waved subterminal line ; cilia brownish ochreous. Hind 

 wing dark brownish black, the cilia dark grey. 



Hah. N". Zealand, Korori, Invercargill. Exp. about 26 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



2608. Sympistis fortis. 



Toxocampa fortis, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 549 (1880). 



(S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tegulae with 

 strong black medial line ; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with 

 fuscous. Fore wing brownish grey suffused and irrorated with 



Fig. 140. — Synqnstis fortis, J. y. 



fuscous brown ; a strong black subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold where it is bent outwards and forms a short fascia ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, oblique and stronger at costa, angled 

 inwards in cell and on vein 1, excurved in submedian interspace 



