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MAORIA. By W. Warren. 
agorastis. M. agorastis Meyr. (10 cl). Forewing purplish tedbrown with grey irroration; inner and outer lines 
conversely edged with yellowish grey; subterminal whitish, subdentate, preceded by small obscure dentate 
brown marks; claviform stigma small, grey edged with dark; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and 
whitish annuli edged with black, the orbicular externally produced; hindwing brownish ochreous; fringe ochreous 
white, with a dark line through it. Wellington, Akaroa, Lake Guyon, New Zealand. 
exquisiia. M. exquisita Philp. d' Forewing bright green; lines black with white margins; a blackish suffused 
patch at base below middle, followed by an outwardly oblique black streak from inner margin; inner line oblique, 
forked in uppei half; median line bent at middle of wing; outer line hum I ate dentate, the lunules filled in 
with white; sub terminal line black and strong, interrupted above and below middle; reniform stigma edged 
with black marked with white; fringe mottled green and black; hindwing pale yellowish green, with broad dark 
terminal border, a dark cell spot, and sinuous fine outer line; abdomen didl yellowish, the anal segment and 
dorsal spots black. West Plains, New Zealand. 
pauca. M. pauca Philp. Forewing pale yellowish green; the base narrowly black, projecting in middle; a broad 
irregular black fascia from inner margin near base touching the basal patch and inner line, which is black, 
outwardly oblique, double, filled in with pale green; a broad irregular blackish band at ]/ 2 , dilated on costa 
and joining the inner line above inner margin ; stigmata obscure; the reniform pale greenish, outlined with black 
anteriorly, and followed by a reddish patch; a triangular spot on costa before apex; subterminal line 
irregular, interrupted, green; a blackish terminal band, interrupted; veins faintly black; hindwing fus¬ 
cous. Wairarapa and Wallacetown, New Zealand. Resembles exquisita, but the fasciae are differently disposed. 
cocleno. M. coeleno Huds. (8 k). Forewing pale woodbrown, with the inner margin deep black brown, 
sometimes filling up the median area to median vein; lines indistinct, brown, conversely dentate; a brown 
median shade; costa shaded with brown and with oblique dark streaks; orbicular stigma of the ground colour, 
oblique, elliptical; reniform filled up with black brown, especially the lower lobe; subterminal line pale, inter¬ 
rupted, preceded by dark brown shading and followed by blackish blotches at anal angle and beyond cell; fringe 
black brown mottled with pale; hindwing dark fuscous; the $ usually darker than the Wellington, 
New Zealand. 
beata. M. beata Howes. Forewing lilac grey tinged with brownish; lines and markings indistinct; stigmata 
large, edged internally with pale, externally with dark; the claviform small, the orbicular open above; sub- 
terminal line pale, preceded by a black lunule on subterminal fold; fringe concolorous; hindwing fus¬ 
cous; the $ usually darker than the <$. Ncav Zealand. 
levis. M. levis Philp. Forewing brown with a slight greenish tinge; markings very obscure, blackish; 
a thin double line near base; a suffused patch at angle of inner margin near base; a faint curved 
line at y 3 , followed by a black interrupted line not reaching inner margin; a fine bent line at 
posteriorly bordering the orbicular stigma and becoming obsolete at middle of wing; a similar line interiorly 
bordering the reniform; subterminal line pale greenish, suffusedly and interruptedly bordered with blackish; 
fringe pale greenish mixed with brown; hindwing greyish fuscous, paler basewards. A small species 
taken at West Plains, Tuturau, New Zealand. 
Oliver}. M. oliveri Hmps. Forewing olive green; the costal streak, the oblique dentate lunulate outer line, 
and the subterminal line broadly pale ochreous; the median vein and veinlets and the inner margin narrowly 
ochreous; orbicular and reniform stigmata conversely oblique, dark-edged, the orbicular with ochreous 
centre; hindwing pale greyish fuscous. New Zealand. 
maya. M. maya Hulls. (8 1). Forewing bright yellowish brown, paler towards apex; two strong black streaks 
from base, that below median edged above with yellowish, that below vein 1 edged below with the 
same colour; orbicular stigma oblique, black-edged, open above; reniform large, dark purplish brown out¬ 
lined with black; claviform edged at end with dark; terminal area dark, forming a patch above middle and 
a double patch of black brown at anal angle; hindwing grey. Described from a single specimen, of which 
the sex is not stated, taken on Mt. Arthur, New Zealand at 3500 feet. 
ehryserythra. M. chryserythra Hmps. $. Forewing ochreous, almost wholly suffused with bright ferruginous red; 
inner and outer lines double, filled in with whitish, conversely dentate lunulate; subterminal denticulate, 
dentate to termen along veins 4 and 3; claviform stigma with its extremity whitish; orbicular and reni¬ 
form large, Avith whitish annuli; hindwing ferruginous red; head and thorax bright ferruginous red. <$. Head 
and thorax purplish red; forewing purplish red, with all markings indistinct; hindwing pale reddish. NeAV 
Zealand: Middle Island, Orepuki. 
diaimeta. M. diatmeta Hulls. (10 d). ForeAving sepia broAvn with reddish suffusion, somewhat paler along 
costa; the lines deep red, indistinct, the inner Avaved, the outer dentate lunlulate, conversely edged in 
loAver half of Aving with greenish yelloAV scales; a subterminal row of yellowish green Avedge shaped 
