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brown; veins faintly brownish; fringe mottled, dark and light brown; hindwing fuseons, pink-tinged, paler 
basewards. In appearance nearest to diatmeta. West Plains, Tuturau, New Zealand. 
M. longstaffi Howes. Forewing grey; the markings ferruginous; orbicular and reniform stigmata grey, longstajfi. 
with ferruginous outlines; base of wing lighter grey; the subbasal, inner, and outer lines dark and zigzag; sub- 
terminal line indistinct; fringe grey; a suffused dark patch round reniform; hindwing uniform dark grey. 
Lake Wakatipu, NeAv Zealand. Resembles M. phricias. 
S u b s e c t. B. Pectus and venter of d clothed with long rough hair; abdomen 
with large lateral fringes of hair and a tuft of long hair from base on each side. 
M. stipata Walk. (10 g). Forewing ochreous tinged with rufous and, except along costa and in post- stipata. 
median area, suffused with fuscous; the veins dark; slight black marks above inner margin near base; 
inner and outer lines double, dark filled in with ochreous, conversely dentate lunulate, the outer form¬ 
ing a double series of vein points; subterminal line ochreous with fuscous shading on both sides 
except at apex; claviform stigma black-edged, short and broad; orbicular and reniform black-edged; the 
orbicular narrow and oblicpie, with rufous centre; the reniform fuscous, with ochreous lunule on outer 
edge; hindwing rather reddish fuscous, with a pale subterminal spot on vein 2. New Zealand: Auck¬ 
land, Otago. Dunedin. 
M. alcyone Huds. (8 1). d Forewing warm brown, the basal area darker mixed with blackish; costal alcyone. 
streak yellowish; inner line curved and wavy, dark edged with pale; outer line indistinct, lunulate 
dentate; subterminal line pale, acutely dentate; claviform stigma small, dark; orbicular elongate, oblicpie, pale 
yellowish with slightly darker centre; reniform dark with pale outline; hindwings pale grey, with black terminal 
dots; the $ is darker and duller, with less distinct markings. Wellington, New Zealand. 
M. merope Huds. (= chlorograpta limps.) (8 1). Forewing deep purple brown, redder along submedian merope. 
fold, betiveen the stigmata, and on veins in postmedian area; lines double, filled in with golden green; the 
sub terminal a series of golden green marks on black patches, connected with a series of terminal black 
spots; stigmata large, the orbicular oblicpie, elliptical, both defined by black and redbrown, AA'ith partial golden 
green annuli; hindwing deep purplish red broAvn. NeAv Zealand; both types 29; that of merope from the 
Botanical Gardens, Wellington; chlorograpta from Orepuki, Middle Island. 
M. dotata Walk. (10 h). Forewing deep rufous, suffused with fuscous, especially on median and terminal dotata. 
areas; a curved dark mark above inner margin near base; inner and outer lines dark, double, conversely den¬ 
tate lunulate; subterminal line rufous, inangled on submedian fold, preceded and followed by darker 
shading; a fine wavy black terminal line; stigmata large; the claviform dark Avith black outline; orbi¬ 
cular oblicpie and narrow, edged with black; reniform with inner half fuscous, outer half pale; hindwing deep 
rufous tinged with fuscous. Nelson, New Zealand. 
M. ochthistis Meiyr. (= vitiosa Huds. nec Btlr.) (10 h). Forewing bright rufous, with some black irrora- ochthistis. 
tion and shading, especially on median area; the lines double; the inner somewhat irregularly Avavecl; the 
outer strongly dentate; subterminal line ochreous, defined internally by fuscous shading, the terminal 
area beyond fuscous or Avith dark streaks on the veins; stigmata with black outlines; the reniform often 
with whitish spot or points on its outer edge; hindwing broAvnish fuscous somewhat tinged with red; the ab. 
ochrifascia ab. nov. is altogether paler, the ground colour dull ochreous, especially the space between outer and ochrifascia. 
subterminal lines. LarA r a green; the dorsal area with Avhite lines and points, the ventral with yelloAv 
points; a pink lateral stripe on first five and last two segments; the claspers pink; on Melicope sim¬ 
plex. New Zealand: Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington. 
M. asterope Huds. (8 1). For Giving pale grey suffused with dull brown, with a pale area near asieropc. 
base of inner margin and the space between outer and subterminal lines pale; inner line black, waved; 
outer line, sinuous; median less distinct; stigmata outlined AA’ith black, the orbicular oblong, the reniform white 
and very conspicuous; subterminal line pale, preceded by a dark shade, and with the terminal area 
beyond brown; fringe broAAOi intersected with black beyond veins; hindwing brownish grey with traces of 
dark median and subterminal lines. Mt. Arthur, New Zealand. “Allied to dotata'". The sex is not stated, 
but the figure is that of a $, Avhile the type of dotata is a rf; in both the dorsal segments are marked AA'ith 
pairs of black spots; it seems therefore very possible that they are sexes of one species. 
M. alopa Meyr. Forewing deep brick-red; lines hardly marked, except by blackish dots; stigmata alopa. 
outlined in white; hindwing blackish fuscous. Lakes Coleridge and Guyon, New Zealand. 
M. umbra Huds. (= ?? omoplaca Meyr.) (8 1). d Forewing reddish ochreous; a blackish suffusion umbra. 
through cell from base widening outwards to termen, the costal and inner margins remaining pale; the usual 
lines distinct only at then extremities; stigmata outlined with black; the orbicular oval, the reniform 
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