•BITYIA. 41 



Genus BITYLA. „ 



Type. 



Bityla, Wlk. xxsiii. 869 (1865) clejigurata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 middle of frons and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with long hair only and without crests ; tibias moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen dorsally flattened and without crests. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 theareole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 

 obsolescent irum just below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing brown. 



a. Fore wing with the cilia brown defigttrata. 



b. Fore wing with the cilia whitish, pure white at base sericea. 



B. Fore wing white pallida. 



2775. Bityla defigurata. 



2^ylina defigurata. Wlk. xsxiii. 756 (1865") ; Hudson, N. Zealand Moths & 



Butterflies, p. 29, pi. 5. f. 33. 

 Bityla thoracica, Wlk. sxxiii. 869 (1865). 



Head and thorax dark red-browB ; tarsi with slight pale rings ; 

 abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft tinged with fulvous. Pore 

 wing dark reddish brown slightly irrorated with greyish ; ante- 

 medial line very indistinct, oblique, waved ; stigmata absent ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, slightly defined by greyish on outer side, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, waved ; 



Fig. 7. — Bityla defigurata, c? • t- 



subterminal line absent. Hind wing uniform dark reddish brown ; 

 cilia with a slight grey line at base ; the underside irrorated with 

 greyish, a dark discoidal lunule and indistinct diffused curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. K. Zealand, S. Island (Colenso, Bolton, Hector, MatJiew), 

 1 (S , 3 $ , type ihoracica, Auckland (Oxley), 1 cS type, Dun edin 

 (Purdie),! /,1 2 ,Marlhovough (Skelton), 1 § ,Okato (J. J.Walker), 

 1 5 , Blenheim, Christchurch, Lake Coleridge ; Invercargill,?^. Island, 

 Palmerston. Eaj?. 40-46 millim. 



2776. Bityla sericea. 



Bityla sericea, Butl. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 387, pi. 42. f. 12 ; Hudson, N. Zea- 

 land Moths & Butterflies, p. 29, pi. 5. f. 34. 



$ . Head and thorax reddish brown tinged with greyish ; tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen yellowish white, dorsally suffused with 



