. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. TMETOLOPflOTA. 471 1818. Tmetolophota propria. Leucania propria, Wlk. ix. Ill (1856); Bntl. Voy. ' Erebus'&'Terror,' ^\. ix. f. 4 ; Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 11, pi. iv. f. 13. Head and thorax ochreous brown with a reddish or olive tinge; tegulae with black and white medial line ; fore and mid tibiae striped whitish and black ; abdomen ochreous brown, tinged with rufous towards extremity or more ochreous. Fore wing pale grey-brown, usually more or less tinged with rufous or sometimes with ochreous ;
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. TMETOLOPflOTA. 471 1818. Tmetolophota propria. Leucania propria, Wlk. ix. Ill (1856); Bntl. Voy. ' Erebus'&'Terror,' ^\. ix. f. 4 ; Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 11, pi. iv. f. 13. Head and thorax ochreous brown with a reddish or olive tinge; tegulae with black and white medial line ; fore and mid tibiae striped whitish and black ; abdomen ochreous brown, tinged with rufous towards extremity or more ochreous. Fore wing pale grey-brown, usually more or less tinged with rufous or sometimes with ochreous ; a prominent black fascia below base of cell to below origin of vein 2; the extremity of median nervure with ditfused fuscous on it, with more or less prominent black streak above it and base of vein 4 ;. Fig. Ii0.— Tmc(olo2}ho(a. propria, (^. \. orbicular and reniform small, greyish, obscurely defined by black, the former round, reduced to a slight black streak representing its lower edge or obsolete ; a postmedial series of black points, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, met at vein 4 by a more or less prominent triangular dark shade from termen below apex; a prominent terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, or ochreous tinged with fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the costal area slightly tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a terminal series of small black lunulcs. Hah. New Zealand (Earl), 1 J type, (Enifs) 1 (^, (Mathew) 1 J, 1 5 , (</. '/• Walker) 2 J, Marlborough (Skellon), 2 J, 1 $ , Blenheim, Mt. Arthur, Alt. Hutt. ). 32-38 millim. *1819. Tmetolophota polygona. (Plate XCIV. fig. 10.) Tmetolophota polijgona, Druce, ined. $ . Head and thorax purplish grey; palpi and sides of frons, a bar above it, and two patches on vertex of head black ; tegulae yellow-brown, with black medial line and purple-grey tips ; pro- thorax and patagia with black patches, thora.^t with dorsal black etripe ; pect
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