(Plate [IV]., fig. 21 ♂, 22 ♀.)
This species has occurred commonly at Christchurch, Mount Torlesse, and Dunedin.
The expansion of the wings is from 1⅛ to 1⅜ inches. The fore-wings are pale ochreous; there is a very obscure, shaded, brownish, longitudinal streak below the middle, a conspicuous black dot at the base, a second at about one-sixth, a third at one-third, a fourth between the origins of veins 3 and 4, a curved series of minute terminal dots. Hind-wings much paler with a darker blotch near the middle. In the female the wings are browner with the dots much smaller or absent.
The moth appears in April and May, being found at night on the blossoms of the scabious.
Described and figured from specimens in Mr. Fereday's collection.
LEUCANIA BLENHEIMENSIS, Frdy.
(Leucania blenheimensis, Frdy., Trans. N. Z. Inst. xv. 196; Meyr., ib. xix. 12.)
(Plate [IV]., fig. 23 ♀.)
This rather striking insect has occurred at Napier and at Blenheim.
The expansion of the wings is about 1½ inches. The fore-wings are cream-coloured with the veins darker; there are three faint black dots at about one-third, a curved series of black dots near the termen, the termen itself being strongly shaded with dark greyish-brown; the cilia are dark greyish-brown. The hind-wings are grey, paler towards the base; the cilia are also grey.