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5. Xylophasia rnhescens, n, sp. (No. 18). 



Allied to X. lithoxylea aud X. lignicolora. Primaries saudy 

 pale browu, with the ordinary markings (including the cunei- 

 form external patch, and a diffused patch at external angle) 

 fei-ruginous ; reniform spot enclosing a blackish J-shaped mark- 

 ing, and bounded externally by two black dots ; orbicular 

 represented by a black dot, below which is an oblique ferrugi- 

 nous dash ; a discal arched series of minute black dots on the 

 veins ; secondaries smoky-brown, with rosy-cupreous reflections, 

 fringe and margin sandy -brown ; body pale sandy-brown ; 

 thorax somewhat ferruginous down the centre ; abdomen 

 whitish at the base, with four brown-banded dorsal tufts ; 

 under surface uniform pale shining sandy-brown, with faint 

 rosy reflections ; discocellulars blackish. Expanse of wings 

 1 inch 7 lines. 



Otago. 



Most like the North American X. lignicolora, but the prima- 

 ries decidedly paler, and the secondaries darker. 



NOCTUID^. 



6. Agrotis? moderuta (No. 15). 



Agrotis ? moderata, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. ii, p. 705 

 (18G5). 



Mamcstra qriscipennis, Felder, Reise der Nov. Lep. iv, pi. cix, 

 fig. 22. 



Wairarapa. 



This species would perhaps be better placed in the genus 

 Ilapalia. 



7. Agrotis mitts, var. :■' (No. 18). 



Agrotis mitis, Butler. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 383, n. 19, 

 pi. xlii, fig. 5. 



Otago. 



^Nlore heavily marked and of a much less bluish tint than the 

 type, still I beheve it to be conspecific with it. 



8. Chera viresceiis, n. sp. (No. 7). 



Primaries above greyish-green, with black costal spots indi- 

 cating the origin of the usual lines ; all the lines and spots black 



