. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SYMPISTIS. 413 greyish, the anal tuft ochreous white; legs fascous ringed with whitish. Fore wing deep fuscous slightly tinged Avith purple, irrorated with a few ochrcous-white scales ; a black acute triangular mark on basal inner area containing a hooked ochreous-white mark ; the lines indistinct, pale ; claviform represented by a short ochreous- white mark; orbicular moderate, round, with whitish annulus ; reniform ochreous white defined on inner side by fuscous, then by pale ochreous and with a blackish quadrate spot between
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. SYMPISTIS. 413 greyish, the anal tuft ochreous white; legs fascous ringed with whitish. Fore wing deep fuscous slightly tinged Avith purple, irrorated with a few ochrcous-white scales ; a black acute triangular mark on basal inner area containing a hooked ochreous-white mark ; the lines indistinct, pale ; claviform represented by a short ochreous- white mark; orbicular moderate, round, with whitish annulus ; reniform ochreous white defined on inner side by fuscous, then by pale ochreous and with a blackish quadrate spot between it and orbicular ; subtermiual line hardly traceable; a terminal series of slight whitish points; cilia fuscous. Hind wing deep fuscous, the cilia whitish at tips. Hah. N. Zealand, Christchurch, Wellington, Canterbury, Lake Coleridge, Rakaia. Exp. 26 millim. This species is unknown to me. *2607. Sympistis iota. Miselia iota, Hudson, Tr. N. Z. Inst. xsxv. p. 243, pi. xxx. f. 3 (1903). Head and thorax brownish ochreous ; tegulaj with two prominent black marks; abdomen grey. Fore wing brownish ochreous irro- rated with black; subbasal line prominent, black, forming a strong hook outwards in submedian interspace ; antemedial line forming a wedge-shaped black mark on costal area, then slightly sinuous ; a diffused waved medial line, darker at costa ; a wedge-shaped black mark on costa beyond middle with traces of a postmedial line arising from it ; the postmedial area with a black-brown band, broader towards costa, its inner edge sinuous and defined on outer side by the pale waved subterminal line ; cilia brownish ochreous. Hind wing dark brownish black, the cilia dark grey. Hah. N. Zealand, Korori, Invercargill. Exj). about 26 millim. This species is unknown to me. 2608. Sympistis fortis. Toxocampaforiis, Butl. Cist. Ent. ii. p. 549 (1880). (5. Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey; tegulae with strong black medial line ; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore wing
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