Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . Morrisonia mollis. Howes.—New Specie* of Lepidoptera 205. MOKRISCNIA SEQUKNS. X 2. Cilia brown, with fine bright grey, irrcrated with fuscous. A jagged subbasai line, stronglyma iked on submedian fold, where it turns abruptly towards base. Adark line across wing at J, double, space between double lines grey (notirrorated), a dark mark oncosta at J, followed by twomore above reniform. Sub-terminal line faint and suf-fused. A terminal series ofblack points; a few darkpoints outline veins. Orbi-cular faint, but with a well-defined line along lowe
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . Morrisonia mollis. Howes.—New Specie* of Lepidoptera 205. MOKRISCNIA SEQUKNS. X 2. Cilia brown, with fine bright grey, irrcrated with fuscous. A jagged subbasai line, stronglyma iked on submedian fold, where it turns abruptly towards base. Adark line across wing at J, double, space between double lines grey (notirrorated), a dark mark oncosta at J, followed by twomore above reniform. Sub-terminal line faint and suf-fused. A terminal series ofblack points; a few darkpoints outline veins. Orbi-cular faint, but with a well-defined line along lower defined by a darkline below and on terminaledge. Cilia grey, mixed with fuscous. Hind-wings brown, darker towards line at base. Tips grey-white. Taken at Whakarewarewa, North Island, on the 15th February, 1910,by Dr. G. B. Longstaff, , whom I have to thank for the privilegeof describing this moth. The well-defined line below reniform and orbicular readily distin-guishes this from phricias, which it is very close to—much closer thanM. longstaff ii. Neither has it the
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