42 NOCTUID.E. 



brown, ventrally irrorated with black. Fore wing brown, suffused 

 and irrorated with grey except on terminal area ; antemedial line 

 dark, slightly defined by grey on inner side, waved, somewhat 

 oblique ; stigmata absent ; postmedial line dark defined by grev on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely 

 dentate, some slight white points beyond it on costa ; sub terminal 

 line absent ; cilia white at base, white mixed with brown at tips. 

 Hind wing greyish brown ; cilia. white tinged with brown at base ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown, indistinct diff"used 

 brown postmedial and subterminal lines. 



Hah. N. Zealand, N. Island, Wellington, S. Island {Hector), 1 $ 

 type, Christchurch, Lake Guyon. Ecp. 42 millim. 



2777. Bityla? pallida. (Plate CIX. fig. 6.) 



Orthosia 'pallicla, Hudson, Tr. N. Z. Inst, sxxvii. p. 355 (1905). 



5 . Head, tborax, and abdomen white tinged with ochreous 

 brown. Fore wing white slightly irrorated with ochreous brown ; 

 subbasal line represented by two widely-separated brown striae 

 from costa; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, waved; orbicular 

 and reniform hardly traceable ; a diff'used waved brown medial 

 shade, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; 

 postmedial line brownish, bent outwards below costa, then waved, 

 oblique to vein 4, then inwardly oblique ; subterminal and terminal 

 lines absent. Hind wing white tinged with brown, especially the 

 terminal area from apex to vein 2 ; a fine brown terminal line 

 slightly defined by white on inner side ; cilia white. Underside 

 white; fore wing with the disk suffused with brown ; hind wing 

 with the terminal area suffused with brown from apex to vein 2. 



Hah. IS". Zealand, Napier (Simmonds), 1 2 co-type in bad con- 

 dition. Ea!2}' 36 millim. 



Genus GRACILIPALPUS. 



Type. 



Gracilipalpus, Calb. Iris, i. p. 270 (1888) ejjhialtes. 



Micromania, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 93 (1893); Alpb. Iris, vii. 



pp. 312, 376 (1894) turcomanica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly fringed 

 M'ith scales in front and reaching vertex of head, the 3rd long ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antenna of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with scales and 

 hair mixed, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibite fringed with 

 rather long hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing short and broad, the 

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

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

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from npper angle ; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the outer part of medial area suiFused with 



black, the postmedial line filled in with white turcomanioa. 



13. Fore wing with the outer part of medial area not suflFused 



with black, the postmedial line not filled in with white, ephialtes. 



