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vein :>: a large brown patch on termen above tornus; a terminal 

 series of blackish points with rufous between them; cilia white 

 mixed with brown. Hind wing white with diffused black subbasal 

 and medial bands from below costa to inner margin; a fine sinuous 

 black postmedial line with some brown suffusion before it towards 

 costa; subterminal lino white with brownish suffusion before and 

 beyond it, minutely waved, excurved at middle and bent outwards 

 to tornus ; a red-brown terminal line with some black scales on it ; 

 cilia white slightly mixed with hrown ; the uuderside white tinged 

 with brown, a dark discoidal striga. 



Hab. Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 1 6. Exp. 14 millim. 



*5009. Araeoptera obliqui fascia. (Plate CL1I. fig. 1.) 



ArcBoptera obliquifascia, de Joan, ined, 



2 . Head and thorax white ; palpi fuscous at sides except at 

 tips; abdomen whitish, the medial segments dorsally tinged with 

 flesh-pink, the terminal segments with dark brown. Tore wing 

 white ; an inwardly oblique waved blackish antemedial line ; medial 

 area broadly suffused with fuscous except at costa, its inner edge 

 inwardly oblique, its outer excurved from vein ."> to termen above 

 tornus, a blackish spot on it at upper angle of cell and traces of a 

 postmedial line bent outwards below eosta and incurved below vein 

 4 ; a dark subterminal patch at discal fold ; cilia tinged with brown. 

 Hind wing white; a slight oblique dark subbasal line: a medial 

 band of dark suffusion with black points on its edges, its inner edge 

 oblique, its outer excurved beyond the cell ; the terminal art a 

 suffused with blackish; underside of both wings white tinged with 

 brown. 



Hah. Mauritius, Curcpipc ( Ca He), type f .9 in Coll. Joannis. 

 Exp. 1 4 millim. 



5010. Araeoptera proleuca. (Plate CXL1X. fig. 14.) 



Areeopt . ffmpBn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. .wii. p. 671 I' ' 7 • 



c( . Head and thorax white, the latter slightly tinged w ith rnfous ; 

 palpi rufous witli some black at base of 2nd ami 3rd joints ; irons 

 rufous with black liar above; antennas rufous excepi at base; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with rufous and with some fiery red on 

 1st two segments; fore legs blackish; pectus, mid ami hind legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing white suflt 

 in parts with rufous and brown : a fulvous patch on eosta i 



; an inwardly oblique minutely waved fulvous antemedial line ; 

 medial area suffused with pale brown excepi towards costa ; a black 

 lunule in upper extremity of cell with some fulvous above it on 



a with black point before it : postmedial line brown, excui 

 from below costa to vein A, then incurved and again i'\<!: 

 towards inner margin ; postmedial pari of costa with white points 

 with fulvous marks between them; a whitish subterminal line with 



