LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 755 



the latter excavated on its outer side, containing part of the blackish 

 cloud ; marginal lunules brown ; costa with black dots and with 

 three exterior white points; fringe interlined with brown. Hind 

 wings brown, with a darker marginal line. Length of the body 

 9 lines; of the wings 20 lines. 



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



Xylina vex at a. 



Mas. Cinereo-cervina ; palpi subascendentes, extus nigri, articulo 

 So longi-conico ; antennce subpectinatm, apices versus sim- 

 plices ; thorax fascia arcuata nigra ; abdomen apicem versus 

 attenuatum, alas posticas dimidio superans, fasciculo apicali 

 minimo ; femora dense fimbriata ; alee anticce anguslce ; plaga 

 discali fasciaque submarginali nigricantibus, striga basalt 

 annuloque postico interrupto nigris, orbiculari et reniformi 

 magnis nigro submarginatis, linea submarginali cinerea sub- 

 denliculata, venis trtarginem versus nigris ; posticcefuscescentes, 

 fimbria cinerea. 



Male. Cinereous fawn-colour, more cinereous beneath. Head 

 with a narrow interrupted blackish band in front of the antenna?. 

 Palpi slightly ascending, extending a little beyond the head ; second 

 joint stout, pilose, partly black on the outer side ; third elongate- 

 conical, hardly one-third of the length of the second. Antenna? 

 slightly pectinated for two-thirds of the length. Thorax with a 

 black arched band on the fore tegulae. Abdomen attenuated towards 

 the tip, extending for half its length beyond the hind wings; apical 

 tuft very small. Femora densely fringed. Wings elongate. Fore 

 wings narrow, hardly acute; discal paich and an incomplete sub- 

 marginal band blackish, the former partly including the orbicular 

 and reniform marks ; a black streak proceeding from the base ; 

 orbicular and reniform marks large, incompletely black-bordered ; 

 an incomplete black ringlet behind the former; a slightly den- 

 ticulated cinereous submar^inal line intersecting the band and in- 

 tersected by the veins which there are black ; marginal points 

 black, elongated ; some blackish costal dots, and three- exterior 

 whitish costal points. Hind wings brownish ; fringe cinereous. 

 Length of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 19 lines. 



Closely allied to X. turbida from which it may be distinguished 

 by its more elongated fore wings. 



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



