396 NOCTUID.E. 



its lower extremity produced ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below 

 vein 4 and angled inwards in submcdian fold, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; postmedial area fuscous from costa to vein 4, 

 denning the subterminal line, which is indistinct, pale, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique ; a terminal series of 

 minute black points ; cilia mixed with fuscous and with fine grey 

 line at base. Hind wing white tinged with brown, especially on 

 terminal area; cilia white, brown at apex and with brownish 

 points near base to vein 2; the nnderside vhite irrorated with 

 brown, a black discoidal lunule and blackish apical patch extending 

 to vein 6. 



Hub. Victokia, Melbourne {Lucas), 1 2 , Gisborne (LyeU), 1 6 • 

 1 5 , Birchip, 1 $ ; S. Australia, Parkside (Lower), 1 J , Adelaide 

 ( Wilson), 1 $; Tasmania (Hardwicke, Smith), 1 £ , 1 $ . Exp. 

 34-36 millim. Type f in Mus. Paris, lypef imparata in Mus. 

 Oxon. 



4063. Ariathisa marginalis. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 5.) 



Hadena marginalis, Wlk. xxxiii. 741 (1865). 

 Nitoons limbosa, Guen. Eat. Mo. Mag. v. p. 5 (1868). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with fuscous and whitish ; palpi 

 with blackish patch at side of 2nd joint; frons with black band 

 above ; tegulse with the tips somewhat paler ; pectus whitish ; tarsi 

 fuscous ringed -with white ; abdomen whitish, dorsally suffused with 

 brown, ventrally irrorated with black. Fore wing brownish suffused 

 with fuscous to the subterminal line, the terminal area ochreous white 

 tinged with reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by double 

 black striae from costa and cell filled in with brown, and with fine 

 black streak beyond it in submedian fold ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with brown, oblique, slightly waved ; orbicular an ochreous 

 white point defined by black ; reniform ochreous, with blackish 

 line in centre expanding into a patch below, its lower extremity 

 produced ; an indistinct sinuous black medial line ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with brown, bent outwards below costa, then very 

 minutely waved, oblique and angled inwards at submedian fold; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by small 

 dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat 

 dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of black strife ; cilia 

 ochreous at base, fuscous at tips. Hind wing greyish suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; cilia white, fuscous at tips and with fuscous line 

 through them ; the underside white irrorated with black, a black 

 discoidal lunule. postmedial series of short streaks on the veins, and 

 blackish apical patch extending to vein 6. 



Bab. Tasmania, Hobart (Norman), 1 d" , 1 $ type. Exp. 36 

 millim. 



