392 NOCTUIDiE. 



4055. Ariathisa paragypsa. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 29.) 



Caradrina 2Mragypsa, Lower, Pr. Liun. Soc. N, S. W. xxvi. p, 650 (1902). 



(S . Head and thorax white ; palpi with black marks at side of 

 1st and 2nd joints ; frons with black bar above ; tegulae with the 

 basal half red-brown ; patagia with black upper edge expanding 

 into patches at base ; tibiae and tarsi banded black and white ; 

 abdomen white tinged with ochreous brown. Fore wing white 

 with a faint violaceous tinge ; a black point at base of costa ; a 

 strong black streak below basal half of cell with some reddish 

 brown below it ; a slight red-brown subbasal mark on vein 1 ; a 

 very slight arched brown streak above medial part of vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line represented by a minute dark point on costa ; a wedge- 

 shaped black patch in terminal half of cell with the small rather 

 triangular white orbicular on it ; reniform a narrow white lunula 

 delined by black and with slight brown line in centre, its lower 

 part filled in with red-brown and angled inwards on median 

 nervure to below orbicular, its lower extremity much produced 

 and with grey-brown suffusion beyond it to subterminal line : post- 

 medial line slight, blackish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, dentate ; subterminal line slight, whitish, defined on inner 

 side by wedge-shaped black streaks from below costa to vein .'-?, 

 slightly excurved at vein 7, then oblique ; the terminal area 

 suffused with rufous except towards tornus and with slight dark 

 streaks on the veins ; a terminal series of slight brown strise ; cilia 

 brown with whitish marks at base. Hind wing whitish, uniformly 

 tinged with red-brown ; cilia white, brown at apex, and with series 

 of brown spots to vein 2 ; the underside white, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, the inner area tinged with 

 brown, a discoidal point, postmedial series of minute streaks on 

 the veins and apical black patch extending to vein 6. 



Hah. S. Australia, Parkside {Loiver), 1 J • E,vp. 36 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Lower. 



4056. Ariathisa gypsina. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 30.) 



Agrotis gypsina, Lower, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxi. p. 52 (1897). 



J . Pure white ; palpi with black-brown mark at side of 2nd 

 joint ; tarsi black-brown ringed with white ; abdomen faintly 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing with waved black subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold, stronger at costa; antemedial line 

 represented by black points on costa, median nervure, and vein 1 ; 

 orbicular faintly indicated by a few black scales ; reniform repre- 

 sented by a small yellow lunule defined by brown, with brown- 

 defined spot on its inner side and greyish spot below it ; a medial 

 brownish point on costa ; postmedial line represented by a small 

 black spot on costa, then by a series of black points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, and 

 the point on vein 1 displaced outwards ; a terminal series of black 



