602 CATALOGUE OF 



each side; crests luteous. Legs partly luteous. Fore wings 

 glaucous-gray ; the lines and spots distinct, luteous and black ; costa 

 rosy at the base beneath. Hind wings aeneous-brown ; under side 

 rosy; discal spot blackish ; border aeneous-brown. Length of the 

 body 7 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



a. New Zealand. From M. Dohrn's collection. 



b. New Zealand. Presented by Col. Bolton. 



Group 2. 

 Like the sixth European group. 



100. Hadena mutans. 



Mas et fcem. Pallide cinerea ; thorax fascia antica arcuata 

 nigra ; alee anticce apud discum cervino et nigro-cinereo 

 nebulosa, lituris costalibus vitta discali venisque nigris, lineis 

 subobsolelis, submarginali distincta albida subundulata nigro- 

 fuscoque marginata, orbiculari et reniformi distinctis ex parte 

 nigro marginatis, ilia obliqua; postica cinerea?, ciliis albidis, 



Var. Alee antica disco vix nebuloso, vitta nigra subobsoleta. 



Allied to Xylina. Male and female. Pale cinereous. Third 

 joint of the palpi cylindrical, full one-third of the length of the 

 second. Antennae of the male minutely ciliated. Thorax with a 

 black curved band in front. Fore wings with black marks along the 

 costa ; most of the disk clouded with fawn-colour and with blackish 

 gray ; lines almost obsolete, except the submarginal one, which is 

 distinct, whitish, slightly uudulating, bordered on each side by 

 black and brown, and interrupted by the black veins; a black dis- 

 cal stripe, dilated towards its tip, and widely interrupted by the 

 space which includes the black-bordered claviform spot; orbicular 

 and reniform spots distinct, parlly bordered with black, the former 

 oblique, a little more than half the size of the latter. Hind wings 

 cinereous, with whitish ciliae. 



Var. Fore wings with the disk hardly clouded ; black stripe 

 obsolete, except at each end. Length of the body 6 — 7 lines ; of 

 the wings 14 — 16 lines. 



a — i. New Zealand. Presented by Col. Bolton. 



j. New Zealand. Presented by the Rev. W. Colenso. 



k. New Zealand. Preseuted by Dr. Sinclair. 



