. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. HYSSIA. 281 with obscure grey annuli; postmedial line very indistinct, double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish, inter- rupted, excurved slightly at vein 7 and middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark brown; cilia brown with fine pale line at base and whitish tips; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and traces of a curved postmedial line. Hah. jS'ew Zealand (Mattheiv), 1 cJ type.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. HYSSIA. 281 with obscure grey annuli; postmedial line very indistinct, double, minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line very indistinct, whitish, inter- rupted, excurved slightly at vein 7 and middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark brown; cilia brown with fine pale line at base and whitish tips; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and traces of a curved postmedial line. Hah. jS'ew Zealand (Mattheiv), 1 cJ type. Exp. 38 millim. 1531. Hyssia nullifera. Agrotis nullifera, Wlk. xi. 742 (1857); Butl. Voy. Erebus & Terror, pi. ix. f. 5; Hudson's New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 9, pi. iv. f. 9 and pi. ii. f. 11. Alysia specijica, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. t. p. 3 (1868). Head and thorax grey and pale reddish brown mixed; abdomen pale ochreous brown. Fore wing pale grey-brown with a reddish tinge; traces of a postmedial line dentate and produced to rather /#^—. Fig. 59.—Hyssia nulUfera, cf. \. more distinct points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; traces of a curved subterminal series of white points in the interspaces. Hind wing pale brown with a slight ochreous tinge. Hah. New Zealand {Earl), Xs type, (Matthew) 1 $, (J. J. Walker) 1 $ , N. Island, Taupo,Wellington, S. Island, Mount Arthur, Christchurch, Rakaia. Exp. 62 millim. Larva stout, bright yellowish brown, much paler below and thickly irrorated with white ; dorsal line slight; subdorsal and lateral lines dull broAvn with a series of elongate white spots below each ; spiracles and dorsal surface of posterior somites black. Food- plant, Aeipliylla sqnarrosa, one larva feeding in centre of each tussock. 5. *lo32. Hyssia senatoria. (Plate LXXXV. fig. 24.) Mamestra senatoria. Smith, Proc. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 461 (1900); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 156. (S. Head and thorax clothed with
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