754 CATALOGUE OF 



border slightly dentate. Fore wings mostly brown from the base to 

 the reniform mark, except along the costa ; the latter with oblique 

 brown dots and with three exterior pale cinereous points; two 

 undulating brown cinereous-bordered lines, much retracted towards 

 the interior border, the outer one connected with a blackish ringlet 

 which is behind the orbicular mark; a double oblique dentate brown 

 line, contiguous to the outer side of the reniform mark ; two ex- 

 terior lines of elongated black points on the veins; marginal band 

 brown, bordered with pale cinereous on the inner side, with two 

 deep acute notches; marginal lunules black; orbicular mark form- 

 ing an oblique fusiform whitish streak, which contains a fawn- 

 coloured line ; reniform of the usual shape, incompletely bordered 

 with cinereous fawn-colour and containing a transverse whitish mark. 

 Hind wings aeneous-brown ; fringe cinereous-bordered. Length 

 of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



a, b. Auckland, New Zealand. From Mr. Oxley's collection. 



Xylina turbid a. 



Mas. Cinerea ; palpi porrecti, articulo dense fimbriate, So 

 lanceolato; teguloe anticce nigro fuscoque fasciatce, posticct 

 nigro marginatce ; alee anticce nigricante nebulosa?, striga 

 basali nigra, lineis duabus albidis undulatis nigro marginatis, 

 orbiculari et reniformi magnis nigro marginatis, tinea sub- 

 marginali albida denticulata, costa nigro guttata ; postica 

 fusca. 

 Male. Cinereous, dingy beneath. Palpi porrect, extending 

 rather beyond the head ; second joint thickly fringed beneath ; 

 third lanceolate, not more than one-third of the length of the 

 second. Antenna? minutely setose. Thorax with a brown black- 

 bordered band on the fore tegulas ; hind tegulae bordered with black. 

 Abdomen extending much beyond the hind wings; apical tuft 

 small. Legs brown above ; tips of the tarsal joints whitish. Fore 

 wings with a blackish cloud, which extends from near the base to 

 beyond the reniform mark ; another blackish cloud along the ex- 

 terior border, containing the denticulate whitish submarginal line; 

 a black longitudinal streak extending from the base ; two whitish 

 undulating black-bordered lines, one between the streak and the 

 orbicular mark, the other beyond the reniform ; orbicular and 

 reniform marks large, black-bordered ; the former oblique, oval ; 



