384 noctuid.e. 



brown. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with rufous ; the 

 median nervure streaked with fuscous expanding into a spot at 

 lower angle of cell and diffused patch just beyond the angle ; the 

 costa suffused with fuscous towards apex and with four white 

 points ; a subterminal brown shade arising from termen below 

 apex ; cilia dark brown mixed with grey. Hind wing pure white. 

 Hah. Queensland, Brisbane, 3 in Coll. Turner ; N. S. Wales, 

 Broken Hill, type t $ in Coll. Lower. Exp. 28 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform open above and below and 



forming a rather K-shaped mark. 



a. Fore wing ochreous suffused with brown endesma. 



b. Fore wing grey tinged with brown and irrorated with 



black corn uta. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform not open above. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular present. 



«'. Fore wing with quadrate black spot in cell between 



orbicular and reniform euch roa. 



b x . Fore wing without quadrate black spot in cell between 



orbicular and reniform Bengasi. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular absent amathodes. 



4046. Ariathisa endesma. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 23.) 

 Prometopus endesma, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xsvi. p. 648 (1902). 



3 , Head and thorax reddish yellow mixed with some brown ; 

 palpi with brown patch at side of 2nd joint and whitish tips ; lower 

 part of frons white ; tegulae with the terminal half white, the 

 patagia mostly white ; pectus pale yellowish ; legs tinged with 

 brown ; abdomen ochreous white, Fore wing straw-yellow, the 

 interspaces suffused with golden brown to subterminal line, a 

 diffused white fascia below costa and the veins white; subbasalline 

 indistinctly double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, a fine 

 black streak from its lower extremity to antemedial line, which is 

 double filled in with whitish, angled outwards below costa and in 

 submedian fold and very strongly above inner margin, angled in- 

 wards on the veins; orbicular minute, rouud, yellowish defined by 

 black; reniform a K-shaped white mark defined by black, its lower 

 extremity slightly angled inwards ; postmedial line fine, black 

 defined by yellowish white on outer side, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then strongly dentate and oblique ; subterminal line 

 oblique defined by black-brown wedge-shaped marks on inner side ; 

 a black-brown terminal line; cilia with series of small brown spots 

 near base. Hind wing white very faintly tinged with brown ; a 

 slight discoidal lunule ; the underside slightly irrorated with brown, 

 a small black discoidal spot and postmedial series of faint brown 

 points on the veins. 



Hab. S. Australia, Parkside (Lower), 1 3. Exjp. 36 millim. 

 Type f in Coll. Lower. 



