ARIATHISA. 391 



subterminal line, the costal area white irrorated with brown to 

 postmedial line ; a strong black streak below basal half of cell ; 

 antemedial line obsolete to submedian fold, then indistinct, pale, 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; a wedge-shaped black patch in terminal 

 half of cell with the small round white orbicular on it ; reniform 

 white with brown line in middle, narrow above and expanding 

 below into a brown patch, its lower extremity produced, some black 

 streaks beyond it; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with 

 whitish, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely dentate, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct 

 defined on inner side by a purplish patch on costal area and black 

 streaks between veins 7 and 3, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, 

 then oblique ; the terminal area with slight dark streaks on the 

 veins ; cilia grey-brown with punctiform ochreous line at base. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused with yellow-brown except at base ; 

 cilia white, brown at apex and with brown Hue near base ; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal lunule, 

 postmedial series of points on the veins, and apical patch extending 

 to vein 6. 



Bab. Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 1 £ ; N. S. Wales (J. 

 J. Walker), 1 £ ; Victoria, Wardin (LijelJ), 1 $ , Gisborne(Zw/e^)» 

 1 $ ; Tasmania (Allport), 1 3 type. Exp. 34-38 millim. Type 

 costalis in Mus. ^Melbourne, examined by Dr. Turner. 



*4054. Ariathisa chrysospila. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 28.) 



Caradrina chrysospila, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxsd. p. 6.50 (1902). 



2 . Head ochreous with some black on vertex and sides of palpi ; 

 thorax grey irrorated with black, the tegulse in front and patagia 

 above black ; pectus, legs, and abdomen whitish irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing grey strongly irrorated with black ; a black 

 streak below basal half of cell ; a wedge-shaped black patch from 

 middle of cell, diffused beyond the cell to costa and vein 2 and 

 terminated by the sinuous subterminal line, the colour beyond 

 which is pale rufous ; the antemedial and postmedial lines obsolete : 

 orbicular represented by an ochreous point, the reniform by a small 

 yellowish lunule ; some pale points on terminal part of costa a.nd a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia brown and black. Hind wing 

 pale brown ; the cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish with 

 discoidal lunule, diffused postmedial line, and apical patch. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform white. — 

 Victoria. 



Bab. Victoria, Birchip ; S. Australia, Parkside, type t $ in 

 Coll. Lower. Exp. 28 millim. 



