II I KOCTUIDJ::, 



and n])ovc inner margin : orbicular and rcniform small with some 

 fuscous in centres and slight greyish annuii slightly defined by 

 black, the former round : nieilial shade indistinct, oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, tluii waved; j)ostmedial line black, 

 excurved, minutely waved, incurved in submedian interspace ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, dark, slightly Avaved, e.xcur\ed at middle 

 and incurved below vein li, the area beyond it paler brown ; a 

 terminal series of slight black lunules. Hind wing deep fuscous 

 brown ; the underside pale brownish grey thickly irrorated with 

 black, a black spot in cell near base, a large discoidal lunule and 

 curved diffused ])ostniedial line. 



Hah. N. Zealand, Marlborough Province (SIceUon), 1 cf type. 

 Ea-ji. 32 millim. 



Sect. II. Antenna; of male minutely ciliated. 



A. Hind wing white with terminal black band, the base tinged 



with brown mdaleuca. 



B. Hind wing black-brown. 



a. Hind wing with broad medial white band extending to 



inner margin celloggi. 



b. Hind wing with postmedial white patch on costal area, 



sometimes extending to vein 2. 



fl'. Fore wing largely irrorated with white laj/ponka. 



h^. Fore wing slightly irrorated with white ccftcr.^tcdii. 



c. Hind wing wjiolly black-brown above. 



r/'. Fore wing wholly sutTnsed with black-brown except 



terminal area iiigrita. 



h^. Fore wing with the medial ai-ca only .«utfu.sed with 



black-brown funesta. 



2609. Synipistis melaleuca. 



JSoctnn melalcitra, Thnbg. Diss. Ent. ii. p. 42, f. 12 (1791) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 218; Smith, Cut. Noct. N. Am. p. 292. 

 Kocdta Icueoptera, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 189. f. 3 (1796). 

 i^octnam(xs(a,'B.\\hr\. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 357 (1827); Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vii. p. 291, pi. 118. f. 3. 

 Anarta bicycla, Pack. Proc. Post. Soc. X. H. xi. p. 41 (1867). 



Head and thorax clothed with black and white hair and scales ; 

 tarsi with whitish rings ; abdomen clothed with black-brown and 



Fig. 141. — St/mpistis mclalettca, ^f. {. 



white hair. Fore wing brown and black thickly irrorated with 

 ■white ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line single, oblique, waved, more strongly excurved in 



