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NEW SPECIES, Ac, OF IlETEROCEROUS LEPIDOPTERA FROM CANTER- 

 BURY, NEW ZEALAND, COLLECTED BY MR. R. W. FEREDAY. 



BY ACHILLE GUENEE. 

 {Continued from page 6). 



Genus Agrotis. 



AGEOTIS (SPiELOTIs) C(ERULEA, GuGDee, n. s. 



A Ice anticce cceruleo-grisece, lineis mediis inaculisque ordinariis vix ex- 

 pressis pallidiorihus, saturate cinctis ; suhterminali nulla, vel jmnctulis solum 

 indicata : posticce maris lutece, margine late griseo, subtus omnes in mare alho- 

 ochracece^in fcemina alho-grisece. Abdomen maris utrinque luteum. Palpi 

 crassi. 



Size and aspect of our hirivia, which is the European species to which it is most 

 nearly allied. The S lias the superior wings distinctly bluish-cinereous, the fringe 

 ooncolorous j the half line and the two median ones are faintly marked by whitish 

 atoms, and bordered on each side by darker grey ; the orbicular stigma is large, 

 whitish, and well marked, and almost contiguous to the extra basal line ; the reni- 

 form stigma is much less visible, and is separated from the preceding by a square 

 group of dark atoms ; the subterminal line is obHterated or scarcely indicated by 

 little unequal whitish dots ; other dots, smaller but more visible and more regular, 

 follow the elbowed line : inferior with the ground colour ochraceous, but much 

 obscured by a broad grey band and vague median line : the under-side of all the 

 wings is yellowish-white without markings. Thorax bluish-grey, and the abdomen 

 full yellowish-ochrcous on each side. Antennae almost entirely filiform. 



The $ differs much from the male. Its anterior wings are somewhat slaty- 

 grey, with the fringe whitish, and the under- side of all the wings white^ scarcely 

 yellowish, powdered almost everywhere with grey atoms, as is also the abdomen. 



But that which best distinguishes this pretty species is the form of the palpi, 

 which varies enormously in the sexes. In the ? they are extremely thick but 

 glossy, and project strongly beyond the front ; the second joint spongy, strongly 

 rounded at the apex, and the third joint is scarcely visible, but in the place of it 

 one sees only a sort of lateral opening. In the $ , on the contrary, they are of the 

 ordinary form, and the third joint is very apparent, ovoid, and directed forward. 



Ageotis admieationis, Guen^e, n. s. 



Suh-affinis A. corticece. Ala^ anticce grisecc, lineis mediis distantibits, 

 macida orbiculari elongata, renigerain fere attingente, clavi/ormi longa : 

 jtosticce griseoe, fimbria albida ; subtus albidce, lunula cellnlari, lineaque media, 

 fuscis. 



I have seen only one specimen in rather poor condition. It is rather sinaller 

 than corticea. Superior wings smoky-grey, with the ordinary lines much sinuated, 

 blackish and edged with greyish-white atoms ; the two median lines very distant, 

 almost parallel ; the elbowed line not angulated inferiorily ; the three stigmas pale 

 grey encircled with black ; the reniform almost touches the elbowed line, and is 

 surrounded by blackish shades ; the orbicular very oblong, pyriform, and its apex 

 almost reaching the reniform; the claviform is very oblong and distinct ; the sub- 



