ARIATHISA. 



401 



excurycd in cell; postrnedial line double, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, tbcu minutely waved, oblique and slightly angled 

 inwards in submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line brown, defined on inner side by somewhat dentate 

 black marks from costa to vein 3, slightlv excurved below vein 7 



and at middle 



cilia tinged with fuscous. 



Hind wing reddish 



Fig. 106. — Ariathisa comma, <$ . J. 



brown ; cilia with ochreous line at base followed by a brown line and 

 white tips; the underside white irrorated with brown, the inner 

 and terminal areas tinged with brown, a slight blackish disc iidal 

 lunule, oblique postrnedial line and, diffused subterminal band 

 expanding into a diffused apical patch. 



2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing blackish glossed with grey, the 

 last with the markings less prominent. 



Hah. X. Zealand (Churion, Colenso, Smith, Mailiew, J. J. Walfa r, 

 Hudson), 3 J, 11 2 , type and type implexa, Dnnedin (Purdii ), 

 2 S , 1 $ , Marlborough (Skelton), 2 d" , Auckland (O.cley), 2 J type 

 plusiata, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, ltakaia. Exp. 32- 

 40 millim. 



Larva. Hudson, New Zealand Moths k Butterflies, p. 7. pi. 3. f. 11. 



Dark brown tinged with pink ; subdorsal area paler ; a series of 

 oblique black streaks on each segment, the thoracic somites darker. 

 Feeds on various low plants. 1. 



4072. Ariathisa atra. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 13.) 



Agrotis atra, Guen. Noct. i. p. 272 (1852). 

 Agrotis testaceicoUis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 27-J (1S52). 

 Agrotis cinereicollis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 273 (1852). 

 Agrotis rest it uf a, Guen. Noct. i. p. 273(1852). 

 Mamestra lucifera, Wlk. xxxii. 668(1865). 

 Xylina collaris, Wlk. xxxiii. 752 (1865). 



Head and thorax black with a greyish gloss and slightly mixed 

 with grey ; palpi black at base, whitish at tips ; tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen greyish brown. Fore wing black- 

 brown with a greyish gloss ; subbasal line represented by blackish 

 points below costa and cell; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, 

 waved, oblique ; orbicular minute, round, ochreous white defined 

 by black ; reniform a small ochreous brown lunule defined by 

 black, with slight dark line in centre and diffused dark shade before 

 it, its lower extremity produced to a point ; an indistinct sinuous 



vol. vii r. 2 h 



