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spots inwardly edged with deep red; a black streak along base of submedian fold, interruptedly continued 
along fold to termen, accompanied by pale scaling; inner line preceded above and below vein 1 by dark 
red streaks; the submarginal line preceded below vein 2 and followed above it by similar deep red streaks; 
claviform stigma edged with reddish; orbicular rounded, finely outlined with greenish; the reniform large, 
whitish externally, inwardly limited by a thick red lunule, the whole finely edged with greenish white; fringe 
concolorous; hindwing deep red brown; tegulae, patagia, and thoracic crests deep reddish, finely tipped 
with greenish scales. New Zealand. 
Sect. II. Antennae of <$ serrate, with sessile fascicles of cilia. 
M. vitiosa Btlr. (= proteastis Meyr.) (10 d). Forewing deep purplish redbrown more or less com - vitiosa. 
pletely suffused with black, the veins dusted with sparse whitish scales; inner and outer lines double, • 
often filled in with ochreous; subterminal line rufous or ochreous, defined by small black marks on each 
side, dentate outwards on veins 4 and 3, the terminal area darker beyond it; termen with white points 
at vein ends and black lunules between them; claviform small, black-edged; the upper stigmata also black- 
edged, the reniform with an ochreous or white spot with white points above and below it or with a 
row of points on outer edge; hindwing dark reddish brown. Larva above very pale green, with numerous 
white lines and dots; below darker green witli yellow dots; a dorsal series of black dots forming a tri¬ 
angle on each segment; a pink lateral stripe on the front and hind segments; feeding on Melicope 
simplex. NeAV Zealand. 
M, infensa Walk. (= arachnias Meyr.) (10 d). Forewing bright rufous, the veins rather darker; sub- infema. 
costal nervure white to inner line; inner and outer lines marked by white and black streaks on costa, then 
becoming indistinct, double, and dentate, especially the outer; subterminal line represented by a row 
of faint white marks, inangled on submedian fold; stigmata absent; the place of the orbicular marked 
by a curved white streak above; hindwing reddish fuscous; fringo rufous. N. Zealand. 
M. rubescens Btlr. (10 d). Forewing pale ferruginous; the veins dark-scaled; median area below rubescem. 
cell suffused generally with darker ferruginous; lines very indistinct, double; the inner highly dentate; the 
outer filled in with paler, also dentate, the teeth produced to form a double series of dark points on veins, 
but sometimes almost obsolete; submarginal line formed of a row of pale and rufous dentate marks, 
followed by deep rufous patches at middle and anal angle; stigmata outlined in rufous; the orbicular with 
a black point on its inner edge; the reniform partly filled in with black; hindwing rufous fuscous, the fringe 
redder. New Zealand: Otago, Dunedin, Mt. Arthur, Castle Hill, Lake Wakatipu. 
M. niolis Howes. Forewing light ochreous; markings delicate, reddish brown; costa with oblique molts. 
redbrown strigae; reniform stigma hardly shown, basewards shaded with reddish brown; subterminal line 
zigzag, inbent below middle; fringe light brown; hindwing ochreous, terminally darker. N. Zealand. Apparently 
close to rubescens Btlr. 
M. ustistriga Walk. (= lignisecta Walk.) (10 e). Forewing purplish grey darkened by brown irroration, udidriga. 
and in the <§ suffused with ferruginous; inner and outer lines marked on costa by double black striae, 
then becoming indistinct; the inner oblique to submedian fold, angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards 
below it; the outer denticulate, incurved below middle, oblique in submedian interval, and conspicuously 
black between white scaling, connected by brown suffusion with a black dash on it with the inward angle 
of subterminal line, which is grey defined by slight black marks; claviform stigma pointed, edged strongly 
with black, and often emitting a black streak to outer line; orbicular and reniform large, strongly 
defined by black, the orbicular produced externally and often joined to reniform; hindwing fuscous, the fringe 
with the tips white. Larva feeds on Lonicera. New Zealand: Auckland, Otago, Dunedin, Marlborough; suffusa. 
— ab. suffusa ab. nov. (10 e) has a dark suffusion. 
M. lithias Meyr. (8 1). Forewing fuscous with irregular grey irroration, the veins dotted black and white; lithias. 
lines double, filled in with white and minutely dentate; the subterminal pale, dentate to near termen along 
veins 4 and 3; claviform stigma small, roundish, black containing a white point; orbicular and reniform 
fuscous at centre, ringed with white and outlined in black; hindwing grey, with dark terminal line; 
fringe white with a grey line through it. Castle Hill, New Zealand. 
M. homoscia Meyr. (10 e, f). Forewing pale grey brown mixed with dark brown and tinged with olive homoscia. 
green; the veins with white scales; inner line obscure, double, waved; outer line double, subdentate, the 
teeth forming black and white points on the veins; subterminal pale, preceded by brown shading, and out¬ 
wardly dentate on veins 4 and 3; orbicular and reniform stigmata indistinctly ringed with paler and edged 
with black; hindwing dark brown; the fringe pale at tips. Larva green on dorsum, with whitish dorsal 
and sidxlorsal lines separated by series of white dots; sides and venter brown; spiracles red; the line 
below them pale brown; on Pomaderris ericifolia. New Zealand: Marlborough Province and Wellington. 
