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Show 384 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON HETEROCEROUS [May 1, defined disco-cellular dark grey spot, a lunulated submarginal blackish line, extreme margin yellowish, fringe white; pectus and legs whitish ; venter testaceous, clothed laterally and anally with grey hair. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. South Island. Coll. J. D. Enys, Esq. A very well-marked and pleasing species. 20. AGROTIS ADMIRATIONIS ? Agrotis admirationis, Guenee, Ent. M o . Mag. v. p. 38 (1868). Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. 21. GRAPHIPHORA TARTAREA, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 2.) o* . Primaries shining purplish brown ; outer border broadly bronzy, bounded within by a slender sinuated irregular submarginal pale line, which ends towards the costa in an oblique black litura ; costa crossed, particularly in the centre, by black spots; two central pale lines, diverging towards costa (the inner one irregularly inarched, the outer one angulated and excavated), enclosing several transverse black spots, one of which indicates the hind margin of the reniform spot; the latter bounded externally by the outer transverse elbowed line, and followed immediately by a black spot; fringe with slender basal and central pale undulated lines ; secondaries bronzy brown, fringe with slender basal pale line; head, collar, and shoulders grey ; collar brown-edged ; thorax reddish ; abdomen smoky brown, anus testaceous ; wings below shining grey, with a continuous blackish discal line; costal and external areas paler, irrorated with brown; fringe sordid ochraceous with slender basal pale line; body below grey, tarsi blackish ; anal valves fringed with sandy yellow. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. Allied to G. rhomboidea.- 22. APAMEA VITIOSA, n. sp. (Plate XLII. fig. 3.) Nearly allied to A. oculea; primaries purplish or red-brown, with the markings more or less defined ; the renal stigma and the four transverse lines generally yellowish, the whole of the usual markings always indicated by blackish lines ; outer margin crenated, black ; fringe with a whitish basal crenated line ; secondaries pale shining brown, outer margin crenulated, black ; fringe with a whitish basal crenulated line : body corresponding with the wings in colour : wings below grey in dark examples, whitish, tinted with red, in pale examples, with the discal area of primaries and the veins grey; an irregular transverse blackish line, common to all the wings ; a black spot on the discocellulars, and a marginal series of small blackish spots between the veins ; body below purplish in dark varieties, reddish in pale varieties, tarsi above banded with black. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. South Island. Colls. Dr. Hector and J. D. Enys, Esq. This species has varieties parallel to those of the European A. oculea. |