384 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON HETEROCEROUS [May 1, 



defined disco-cellular dark grey spot, a lunulated subniarginal 

 blackish line, extreme margin yellowish, fringe white ; pectus and 

 legs whitish ; venter testaceous, clothed laterally and anally with grey 

 hair. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



South Island. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 



A very well-marked and pleasing species. 



20. Agrotis admirationis ? 



Agrotis admirationis, Guenee, Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 38 (1868). 



Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 

 . 21. Graphiphora tartarea, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 2.) 



S . Primaries shining purphsh brown ; outer border broadly bronzy, 

 bounded within by a slender sinuated irregular submarginal pale line, 

 which ends towards the costa in an oblique black litura ; costa crossed, 

 particularly in the centre, by black spots ; two central pale lines, 

 diverging towards costa (the inner one irregularly inarched, the outer 

 one angulated and excavated), enclosing several transverse black 

 spots, one of which indicates the hind margin of the reniform spot ; 

 the latter bounded externally by the outer transverse elbowed line, 

 and followed immediately bj" a black spot ; fringe with slender basal 

 and central pale undulated lines ; secondaries bronzy brown, fringe 

 with slender basal pale line; head, collar, and shoulders grey ; collar 

 brown-edged; thorax reddish; abdomen smoky brown, anus tes- 

 taceous ; wings below shining grey, with a continuous blackish discal 

 line ; costal and external areas paler, irrorated with brown ; fringe 

 sordid ochraceous with slender basal pale line ; body below grey, 

 tarsi blackish ; anal valves fringed with sandy yellow. Expanse of 

 wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 

 Allied to G. rhomboidea. 



22. Apamea vitiosa, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 3.) 



Nearly allied to A. oculea ; primaries purplish or red-brown, with 

 the markings more or less defined ; the renal stigma and the four 

 transverse lines generally yellowish, the whole of the usual markings 

 always indicated by blackish lines ; outer margin crenated, black ; 

 fringe with a whitish basal crenated line ; secondaries pale shining 

 brown, outer margin crenulated, black ; fringe with a whitish basal 

 crenulated line : body corresponding with the wings in colour : wings 

 below grey in dark examples, wliitish, tinted with red, in pale 

 examples, with the discal area of primaries and the veins grey; an 

 irregular transverse blackish line, common to all the wings ; a black 

 spot on the discocellulars, and a marginal series of small blackish 

 spots between the veins ; body below purplish in dark varieties, red- 

 dish in pale varieties, tarsi, above banded with black. Expanse of 

 wings I inch .5 lines. 



South Island. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 



This species has varieties parallel to those of the European A. 

 oculea. 



