400 NOCTUIDJ?. 



4070. Ariathisa capularis. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 12.) 



Agrotis capularis. Guen. Noct. i p. 271 (1852). 

 Jlcuuesfra ignobilis, Wlk. ix. 2.39 (1856). 

 Grajihiphera instipata, Wlk. x. 404 (1856). 

 Hadena congregata, Wlk. xi. 598 (1857). 

 Orthosia luni/era, Wlk. xi. 747 (1857). 

 Celcsna verecunda, Wlk. xv. 1691 (1858). 

 Amphipyra cinctipes. Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 111. f. 19 (187-1). 

 C'aradrina derosa, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 121 (1875); Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 195. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi black at 

 base, whitish at tips; lower part of frons whitish; tegulaB with 

 slight dark medial line; pectus whitish except in front ; tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen whitish mixed with brown. Fore 

 wing grey irrorated with dark brown and mixed with white ; sub- 

 basal line represented by double black striae from costa and cell 

 filled in with whitish ; antemedial line double, black filled in with 

 whitish, oblique, waved ; orbicular small, round, white defined by 

 black ; reniform a pale reddish Junule defined by black; a sinuous 

 blackish medial line ; postmedial line double, black, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold, some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal 

 line slightly defined by blackish on iuner side and with small 

 dentate black marks before it at middle, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black striae ; 

 cilia with blackish line through them. Hind wing grey-brown ; 

 cilia white with brown line near base from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and 

 postmedial series of short streaks on the veins, the area beyond it 

 suffused with brown becoming blackish at apex. 



Bab. N. S. Wales (Raynor), 1 § ; Victoria, Gisborne (Lj/ell), 2 <S , 

 3 $; S. Australia, Adelaide, 1 <5 type lunij 'era ; Tasmania (Smith, 

 Butler), 3 c? , 1 $ , types ignobilis, instipata, congregata, Hobart 

 JS T orman, Lea), 3 $ . Exp. 34-42 millim. Typef in Mus. Paris 

 (nd type f derosa in Coll. Michigan Agric. Coll. ; the locality .New 

 aersey is an error. 



4071. Ariathisa comma. 



Mamettra comma, Wlk. ix. 239 (1856) ; Butl. Ins. Voy. Erebus & Terror, 

 pi. ix. f. 6 ; Hudson, N. Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 7, pi. v. IT. 27, 28. 

 Graphiphora implexa, Wlk. x. 405 (1856). 

 Hadena plusiata, Wlk. xxxiii. 742 (1865). 

 Nitocris bicumma, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 4 (1868). 



3 . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 black at base, whitish at tips ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale grey-brown ; subbasal 

 line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 double, waved, oblique, angled outwards in submedian fold; orbi- 

 cular a whitish point defined by black ; reniform ochreous white 

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

 patch below, its lower extremity produced; a sinuous medial line 



