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middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous greyish, the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous ; the underside paler, a small 

 black discoidal lunule, a postmedial curved series of short black 

 streaks on the veins, the apical half of terminal area suffused with 

 black. 



Hah. Victoria, Blackrock {Lyell), type f J in Coll. Turner. 

 Exp. '62 millim. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. {Ariathisa). Abdomen of male with lateral tufts of long hair from base ; 

 fore wing with large patch of androconia in cell; hind wing with slight 

 streak of androconia below end of cell on underside. 



4051. Ariathisa excisa. 



Spodoptera. excua, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 129 (1850). 

 Ariathisa atrosignata, Wlk. xxxiii. 747 (1866). 



Head and thorax pale grey, the head slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi black, pure white in front and at tips ; lower part of frons 

 white ; antennae blackish, the basal joint white ; tegulae with black- 

 brown band at base ; patagia with a few brown scales ; meso- and 

 metathorax with paired brown points ; pectus white ; tibia? brown, 

 the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen whitish dorsallj^ tinged 

 with brown, the lateral tufts of male fulvous yellow. Fore wing 

 whitish suffused with pale rufous, except on medial area, and slightly 

 irrorated with brown ; subbasal line double filled in with white, 

 the inner line black, slightly excurved below costa and ending at 



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Fig. 104. — Ariathisa excisa, <^ . \, 



submedian fold ; anteraedial line indistinct, double filled in with 

 white, oblique, waved, with black bar on the outer line at costa ; 

 orbicular and reniform black, their lower parts conjoined by a black 

 fascia so as to form a U-shaped mark, the former oblique elliptical ; 

 a broad pale rufous medial shade ; postmedial line double filled in 

 with white, bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by 

 small dentate dark marks, minutely waved, slightlj^ angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a whitish apical patch ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brown at base, whitish 

 at tips. Hind wing white, the costal area suffused with reddish 

 brown, the veins and termen from apex to vein 2 tinged with 



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