398 NOCTUID.E. 



whitish, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at 

 middle, bent outwards to tornus ; a terminal series of black strise. 

 Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia whitish with 

 a brown line near base ; the underside grey irrorated with brown 

 especially on costal area. 



Bab. N. S.Wales, Broken Hill, type t d in Coll. Lower; 

 Victoria, Melbourne, Birchip. Exp. 28 millim. 



4066. Ariathisa confinis. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 8.) 

 Celana confinis, Wlk. xi. p. 733 (1857). 



d . Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with fuscous ; palpi 

 black, ochreous white at tips ; tarsi fuscous ringed with ochreous ; 

 abdomen ochreous tinged with brown. Fore wing red-brown 

 slightly suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; a fine black streak 

 in base of submedian fold; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 fuscous striga from costa ; antemedial line blackish, oblique, waved, 

 crossed by a slight black streak in submedian fold ; orbicular a 

 white point slightly defined by black ; reniform white slightly 

 defined by black and with black line in centre expanding into a 

 patch below, its lower extremity somewhat produced ; traces of 

 a diffused sinuous medial line ; postmedial line indistinct, double 

 and filled in with ochreous towards costa, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and minutely waved; subterminal line 

 indistinct, slightly defined by fuscous suffusion on inuer side, with 

 slight white and black streaks before it at middle, minutely waved ; 

 the terminal area with slight black streaks on the veins; a terminal 

 series of black points with some white scales before them. Hind 

 wing grey suffused with reddish brown ; cilia brownish at base, 

 white at tips ; the underside ochreous white irrorated with red- 

 brown, a small dark discoidal spot, postmedial points on costa and 

 veins 7, 6, and a diffused brown apical patch. 



Bab. Queensland, Moreton Bay (Biggies), 1 $ type; N.S.Wales, 

 Sydney (Darnel), 1 <S ; S. Australia, Semaphore (Lower), 1 J . 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



*4067. Ariathisa poliocrossa. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 9.) 

 Caradrina poliocrossa, Turner, Tr. Koy. Soc. S. Austr. xxviii. p. 5 (1903). 



6 . Head rufous ; palpi ochreous in front ; tegulae black, grey 

 irrorated with brown at tips ; thorax and abdomen grey-brown. 

 Pore wing violaceous grey suffused with rufous except on inner and 

 terminal areas, the rufous deepening towards subterminal line ; the 

 subbasal line represented by double stria? from costa ; the ante- 

 medial line double, waved, obsolescent on costal half, oblique from 

 costa to submedian fold where it is angled ; reniform represented 

 by a small fuscous lunule ; median nervure blackish towards 

 extremity ; the postmedial line double, waved, obsolescent on costal 

 half, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, 



