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Show 1877.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM N E W ZEALAND. 383 APAMID.E. 13. HELIOPHOBUS DISJUNGENS. Heliophobus disjungens, Walker, Lep. Het. xv. p. 1681 (1858). Hadena nervata, Guenee, Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 40 (1868). In colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. The type is much rubbed ; but a fresh example obtained by Dr. Hector seems to me to agree better with Heliophobus than with Hadena. NoCTUIDiE. 14. NlTOCRIS COMMA. Mamestra comma, Walker, Lep. Het. ix. p. 239 (1856). In colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 15. NlTOCRIS PLUSIATA. Hadenaplusiata, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. p. 742 (1865). Nitocris bicomma, Guenee, Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 4 (1&68). In colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. I have no doubt of the correct synonymy of this species. 16. AGROTIS SUFFUSA. Noctua suffusa, Denis, Wien. Verz. p. 80. n. 4 (1775). In colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 17. AGROTIS ? MODERATA. Agrotis 1 moderata, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. ii. p. 705 (1865). In colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 18. AGROTIS CEERULEA. Agrotis (Spcelotis) ceerulea, Guene'e, Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 38 (1868). A fragment in coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. 19. AGROTIS MITIS, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 5.) Allied to A. ashworthii; primaries silvery grey, the usual spots and markings barely indicated by dark grey scales ; a transverse, central, well-defined," elbowed, dark grey line from costa to inner margin ; two ill-defined discal lines, the outer one most distinct and formed of small dark grey sagittate spots; a submarginal series of black dots bordered with dark grey externally ; fringe with a broad but indistinct central grey band; costa spotted with blackish; secondaries pale shining greyish brown, with a dusky lunulate sub-marginal line; fringe whitish ; thorax silvery grey, head rather dusky ; collar with a slender posterior black marginal line; abdomen pale greyish brown : wings below shining greyish silver, primaries with the discoidal and interno-discoidal areas and the veins suffused with smoky brown, a submarginal series of small conical black spots, extreme margin yellowish, fringe greyish; secondaries with a well- |