AP.IATHISA. 



3S3 



a curved postmedial line with minute black streaks on the veins 

 and indistinct diffused snbterminal band. 



Hah. Br. E. Africa, Simba Camp {CraivsJiay), 1 6 type. i?.r^3. 

 24 millim. 



Genus ARIATHISA. 



Type. 



exc'isa. 



Ariaihisa, Wlk. xxxiii. 747 (1865) 



Nitocris, Guei). Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 4 (1868) comma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and broadly scaled, the 3i'd short ; irons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the prothorax without crests, the 

 metathorax with small paired crests ; tibiae fringed with long hair, abdomen 

 with some rough liair at base and lateral fringes of hair but wifcliout ci-ests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded, the terrnen evenly curved and slightly 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 fi-om upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins o, 4 from angle of cell ; o obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antenna3 of male bipeetinate with short branches, the apex simple. 



A. Fore wing without dark patch below lower angle of cell ochroletica. 



33. Fore wii^g with dark patch be^'ond lower angle of cell pelosticta. 



*4044. Ariathisa ochroleuca. 



Caradrlna ochroleuca, Lower, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxvi. p. 223 (1902). 



S . Head and thorax white tinged with pale rufous ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen white, the last dorsally slightly tinged wath 

 brown. Fore wing white tinged with pale rufous ; very indistinct 



Ariathisa ochroleuca, (^ . 



waved, rufous, subbasal, antemedial, and medial lines ; an indistinct 

 discoidal spot ; the postmedial line rather more distinct, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved ; an 

 indistinct sinuous snbterminal line. Hind wing pure white. 



JJab. W. Australia, Eraser's Eange, typef 6 in Coll. Lower. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



*4045. Ariathisa pelosticta. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 22.) 

 Caradrina pelosticta, Lower, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxvi. p. 224 (1902). 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen white, the latter dorsally slightly tinged with 



