. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 230 NOCTUID^. irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal lunule and curved post- medial line. Hah. Kew Zealand {Enys, Mathcw), 3 c?, Mt. Arthur, Rakaia. Kvp. 40 millim, 1529, Hyssia moderata. Agrotis moderata, Wlk. xxxii. 705 (1865); Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 9. Eumichtis sistens, Guen. Ent. Mo, Mag. v. p. 39 (1868), Agrotis mitis, Butl. P, Z. S. 1877, p. 383, pi. 42. f. 5. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing brownish grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 230 NOCTUID^. irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal lunule and curved post- medial line. Hah. Kew Zealand {Enys, Mathcw), 3 c?, Mt. Arthur, Rakaia. Kvp. 40 millim, 1529, Hyssia moderata. Agrotis moderata, Wlk. xxxii. 705 (1865); Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 9. Eumichtis sistens, Guen. Ent. Mo, Mag. v. p. 39 (1868), Agrotis mitis, Butl. P, Z. S. 1877, p. 383, pi. 42. f. 5. Head and thorax grey mixed with brown; abdomen brownish grey. Fore wing brownish grey thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by black strije from costa and cell slightly defined by grey on outer side; antemedial line indistinct, double, filled in with grey, irregularly dentate ; claviform obsolete or small and slightly defined by fuscous ; orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli defined by fuscous, the former round or somewhat elongate elliptical; a medial shade oblique towards costa and somewhat dentate below the cell; postmedial line slightly defined by grey on. / Pig, 58,—Hyssia moderata, (^. {. outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some w^hite points beyond it on costa; subterminal line formed by a series of small grey and fuscous dentate marks angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the basal half paler in male ; cilia white, yellowish or brownish at base; the underside grey-white with slight discoidal lunule, curved postmedial lino, and diffused terminal band. Ab. 1. mitis. Much greyer ; fore wing with the markings indistinct except the medial shade. Ilah. New Zealand (J. J. Walker), 3 c? , Auckland (Oxleij), 1 d", 1 5 type, {Enys) 3 cJ type mitis, Otago {Mutton) 1 d" 1 $ , {Maihew) 2S,^2, Duncdin {Purdie) 1 S • Ex^. 36-40 millim. 1530. Hyssia sminthistis, n. sp. (Plate LXXXVI. fig. 17.) cf. Head and thorax dark brown slightly irrorated with grey; ab
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