. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 2S0 XOCTUID^. irrorafed with fuscous, a slight discoidal lunule and curved post- medial line. Hah. New Zealand {Enys, Math(w), 3 S, Mt. Arthur, Rakaia. Exp. 40 millira. 1529, Hyssia moderata. Jffrofis moderata, Wlk. xrxii. 705 (ISGoj; Iludsou, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 9. Eumiehtis sistens, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 39 (1868). Agrotis mitis, Bull. 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 ; s
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 2S0 XOCTUID^. irrorafed with fuscous, a slight discoidal lunule and curved post- medial line. Hah. New Zealand {Enys, Math(w), 3 S, Mt. Arthur, Rakaia. Exp. 40 millira. 1529, Hyssia moderata. Jffrofis moderata, Wlk. xrxii. 705 (ISGoj; Iludsou, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 9. Eumiehtis sistens, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 39 (1868). Agrotis mitis, Bull. 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 stria? from costa and cell slightly defined by grey on outer side; antemedial Hue 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. Fig. 58.—Hyssia moderata, J. |. outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white 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 line, and diff'used terminal band. Ab. 1. m itis. Much greyer ; fore wing with the markings indistinct except the medial shade. Bah. New Zealand (./. J. Walker), 3 J , Auckland (^'?/), 1 d", 1 2 tvpe, (Enys) 3(5 type mitts, Otago (Huifon) 1 d 1 $ , (MatJiew) 2 rT, 2 2 , Dunedin (Furdie) 1 d . Eap. 36-40 millim. 1530. Hyssia sminthistis, n. sp, (Plate LXXXYI. fig. 17.) cT. Head and thorax dark brown slightly irrorated with gr
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