ARIATHISA. 



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a curved postmedial line with minute black streaks on the veins 

 and indistinct diffused subterminal band. 



Hub. Bit. E. Africa, Simba Camp (OraivsJunj), 1 J type. Exp. 

 24 inillim. 



Genus ARIATHISA. 



Type. 



Aria/J/isa, Wlk. xxxiii. 747 n Q uf>) excisa,. 



Mtocris, Gueii. Ent. Ho. .Mag. v. p. 4 (1868) comma. 



Proboscis fully deYeloped ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and broadly scaled, tin' 3rd short ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the prothorax without crests, the 

 metathorax with small paired crests; tibiae fringed with long hair, abdomen 

 with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male bipectinate with short branches, the apex simple. 



A. Fore wing without dark patch below lower angle of cell ochroU 



B. Fore wing with dark patch beyond lower angle of cell pelosticta. 



*4o44. Ariathisa ochrolenca. 

 Caradrina ochrolenca, Lower, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxvi. p. 223 (1902). 



<5 . Head and thorax white tinged with pale rufous; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen white, the last dorsally slightly tinged with 

 brown. Pore wing white tinged with pale rufous ; very indistinct 



Ariathisa ochrulcuca, rf . 



waved, rufous, subbasal, antemedial, and medial lines ; an indistiuct 

 discoidal spot ; the postmedial line rather more distinct, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved ; an 

 indistinct sinuous subterminal line. Hind wing pure white. 



Bab. W. Australia, Frasers Range, type f cf in Coll. Lower. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



*4045. Ariathisa pelosticta. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 22.) 



Caradrina pelosticta, Lower, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxvi. p. 224 (1902). 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen white, the latter dorsally slightly tinged with 



