Lopidoptera Heterocera Jroiii New Zealand. 549 



2G. XiiUna? sp. (No. 2). 



Tlie only speciiueu is too much damaged £oi- certain ideuti- 

 ticatiou, it may perhaps he a new species. 



HELIOTHID^. 



27. Heliothis confcrta (Nos. o6 and 37). 



Hcliiithis conferta, Walker, Lep. Hot. xi, p. G'JO (18-57). 



Two specimens showing the extremes of colour, like most of 

 the other Noctiice they have lost their anfcenufc but are otherwise 

 in good condition. 



BRIOPIDiE. 



2S. Cosiiwdt's ele(/niis {No. 61). 



Pltal(t:iia degans, Donovan, Ins. New. IIoll., pi. oG, fig. 5 

 (18U5). 



One damaged specimen. 



PLUSIID7E. 



21). Plnsia verticilUda (No. D). 

 Plasia vcrticillata, Guenee, Noct. ii, p. o44 (18G2). 

 Two specimens. 



AMPHIPYRID^. 



30. Bityla thoracica (No. 22). 

 Biti/la thoracica, Walker, Lep. liet. Suppl. iii, p. 8G0 (i8G5). 

 One fairly good specimen. 



TOXOCAIVIPID^E. 



31. Toxocampa ? fortis, n. sp. (No. 20). 



Greyish-broAvn ; primaries with a slightly irregular L-shaped 

 black marking at the base ; two widely separated black costal 

 dots commencing the ordinaiy lines, which are slender, black 

 and very irregularly angulated ; externid border pale, limited 



