Lepidoptera Heterocera frimi JVeic Zealand. 543 



discoidal area ; secondaries with a blackish discoceilular dot ; a 

 feebly indicated dusky discal belt. Expanse o£ Avings 1 inch 4 

 lines. 



Two specimens, one in good condition, the other slightly 

 l)roken; it resembles " Mamestra niam-i'^ of FeMer in pattern. 



6. Leucania r.vtr/med, var.? (No. 31)). 



Leucania extranea, Guenee, Noct. i, p. 77, u. 104 (1852). 



One .singularly red example, with the basal half of the second- 

 aries unusually transparent ; otherwise differing in no respect 

 from Indian examples referred to tbis species. 



7. Leucania unica (No. 5). 

 Leucania unica, Walker, Lep. Het, ix, p. 112 (185G). 

 Two nearly perfect specimens. 



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8. XylopJiasia stipata (No. Gl). 

 Xylina stipata. Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii, p, 753 (1865). 

 A fragment of this well-marked species arrived. 



9. Xylopltasia morosa, n. sp. (No. 20).. 



Allied to X. lignana, and referable to the A'. 7'nrea group, 

 smoky-brown, primaries with the internal area and disc paler; 

 ordinary spots greyish with black-edged white borders, the 

 reniform extending over the base of the second median inter- 

 space and streaked with blackish, a line of which colour runs 

 backwards from it along the median vein; a black -edged white 

 spot close to the base of the interno-median area and three at 

 equal distances on the costal margin ; three white costal dots 

 beyond the cell ; ordinary lines obsolete ; a discal series of black 

 and white dots on the veins followed by a series of externally 

 yellowish-edged ferruginous lunule^s between the veins ; two 

 dusky, somewhat triangular, patches on outer border, with black 

 spots upon them at the extremities of the veins; fringe black 

 s])otted and tro,versed l^y a central black line; secondaries shining 



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