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PER SECT ANIA. By W. Warren. 
conspicua. 
grandiosa. 
ewingii. 
aulacias. 
arotis. 
steropastis. 
air is trig a 
large, black-edged towards base, externally pale; hindwing dark fuscous; the $ has the fore wing 
pale brown, uniformly coloured, the median area tinged with purplish; the lines distinct throughout; ab. conspi¬ 
cua ab. 7iov. has the forewing quite pale oclireous, with the cell and space below prominently black; the terminal 
area beyond subterminal line containing two elongated black patches. Invercargill, New Zealand. A highly 
variable species. 
M. grandiosa Philp. Forewing purplish brown, the base suffused with ochfeous; a small elongate 
yellow spot above median vein at 1 /5] an oclireous patch from base to Vs below median, above a thick 
black streak from base along submedian fold; the inner margin broadly pate ochreous; an irregular V-shaped 
pale purplish brown line from costa, the point not reaching inner margin, its lower part filled in with darker, 
its upper on costa pale ochreous; reniform faintly outlined in pale purplish grey; subterminal line oblique 
and well defined, from costa near apex to % of inner margin; the terminal area beyond ochreous brown 
speckled with darker; hindwing brownish grey. West Plains, New Zealand. 
17. Genus: Perseclania Pimps. 
Differs from Maoria chiefly in the frons having a slight rounded prominence and corneous plate bekvw it. 
Type P. ewingii Westw. 
Sect. I. Antennae of ^ serrate , with sessile fascicles of cilia; pectus 
and abdomen clothe d w i t h long rough li air, the abdomen also av i t h long 
sublateral tufts of h a i r f r o m b a s e. 
P. ewingii Westw. (= composite Guen., aversa Walk., maori Feld., peracuta Morr., dentigera Btlr.) 
(10 h, i). Forewing greyish white, dusted with dark and often suffused with brownish; a black streak from 
base below cell; the veins and also the interspaces of terminal area with dark streaks; inner line somewhat 
obscure, double and strongly dentate; outer strongly but irregularly dentate; subterminal whitish, strongly 
denticulate, outwardly shaded with black; stigmata small; claviform represented by the black upper 
and lower edges; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by black, the orbicular elongate and 
subconfluent with the reniform; triangular black terminal points; fringe intersected by whitish streaks; 
hindwing fuscous, whitish towards base; fringe white with brown base. Larva bright red brown; dorsal stripe 
broadly black; subdorsal narrower, edged with white; lateral stripe dull red, mixed with white and black; 
venter, head, and legs greenish grey with black markings; spiracles black; feeding on grasses. New Zealand: 
Auckland, Dunedin, Marlborough; Australia: Queensland, N. 8. Wales, Victoria, 8. Australia; Tasmania. 
Sect. II. Antennae of $ ciliated with bristles; pectus and abdomen 
smoothe r. 
P. aulacias Meyr. (10 h). Forewing rufous ochreous; veins black brown, defined by fine white streaks; 
the interspaces diffusely streaked with red brown; an obscure sinuous black streak from base below cell, 
upturned at its extremity; inner line represented by a dot on vein 1; a slight oblique streak above 
inner margin at middle; outer line a row of black points on veins; subterminal irregularly dentate and inter¬ 
rupted ; hindwing fuscous with grey fringe; in ab. arotis Meyr. the fringe of hindwing is white, tinged with ochreous 
or brown at base. New Zealand: Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Rakaia. 
P. steropastis Meyr. (10 i). Forewing rufous; veins dark; a dark grey-edged streak below base 
of cell and another above inner margin before middle; lines obsolete except above inner margin, and 
there strongly dentate; subterminal represented by oblique white streaks below veins 7, 4, and 3; a dark 
streak in lower part of cell; reniform consisting of dark and pale marks on discocellular, and a curved streak 
below lower angle; hind wing deep fuscous, the fringe pale at tips. New Zealand: Dunedin, Akaroa, Napier, 
Blenheim, Christchurch. 
P. atristriga Walk. (= antipoda Fldr .) (10 i). Forewing grey brown suffused with purplish red 
and dusted with dark atoms; costal area grey to near apex; a strong black streak below base of cell; 
inner and outer lines marked by double dark striae on costa, then becoming indistinct, both highly dentate; 
the outer sharply inangled on submedian fold; subterminal line represented by a series of slight och¬ 
reous and fuscous dentate marks; claviform stigma minute, black-edged; the upper stigmata also small, grey 
defined by black; the orbicular elongate; the reniform angled inwards on median nervure; hindwing fuscous, 
the fringe rufous. New Zealand: Auckland, Otago, Marlborough, Dunedin. 
