Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . ine formed by a series of dots. Orbicular obsolete. Reniform filled with dark rufous. Veins faintly marked with rufous. Cilia ochreous. Hindwings ochreous, centre of wing clouded with rufous brown. Discoidal spot well defined. A faint series of subterminal dots. Cilia whitish-ochreous, with a darker line at base. Underside pale ochreous. Curved post-medial line across both wings. Reniform and discoidal lunule well defined. Taken in November, at Dunedin, at treacle. The moth is so close to mollis that the first specimens I took I thought were t
Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . ine formed by a series of dots. Orbicular obsolete. Reniform filled with dark rufous. Veins faintly marked with rufous. Cilia ochreous. Hindwings ochreous, centre of wing clouded with rufous brown. Discoidal spot well defined. A faint series of subterminal dots. Cilia whitish-ochreous, with a darker line at base. Underside pale ochreous. Curved post-medial line across both wings. Reniform and discoidal lunule well defined. Taken in November, at Dunedin, at treacle. The moth is so close to mollis that the first specimens I took I thought were that species. Subsequent captures, which gave me both sexes in both species, placed the matter beyond doubt. My last illustration of mollis being so unsatisfactory, I am giving another drawing of it, along with faniscolor. In mollis the reniform is clear, in paniscolor filled with dark rufous. Morrisonia sequens sp. nov. 6*, 31 mm. ; $, 34 mm. Head and thorax grey, strongly filiform. Abdomen ochreous grey, crests slight. Forewings. Morrisonia mollis. Howes.—New Specie* of Lepidoptera 205
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