AUIATHISA. 395 



slightl}' excurved below vein 4 and at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black striae ; cilia rufous at base, whitish at tips. Hind wing pure 

 white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a blackish discoidal lunule. 



Hah. S. Australia, Exeter {Lower), 1 S- Exp. 40 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Lower. 



4061. Ariathisa etoniana. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 3.) 



Caradrina etoniana. Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvi. p. 649 (1902). 



Head and thorax black ; palpi below and lower part of frons 

 ochreous white ; tegulse drab ; pectus and legs black and white ; 

 abdomen ochreons white dorsally suffused with fuscous, ventrally 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing reddish brown suffused with 

 black, except the inner and terminal areas; an indistinct double 

 waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold in which there 

 is a fine black streak beyond it ; a double waved antemedial line 

 acutely dentate outwards in submedian fold and excurved to 

 inner margin, some grey suffusion beyond it on inner area ; 

 claviform obsolete ; orbicular represented by an ochreous point ; 

 reniform 2-shaped, rufous above, ochreous and attenuate below, and 

 angled inwards on median nervure; some white points on apical 

 part of costa ; postmedial line dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 angled inwards in submedian fold, and with some grey scales on 

 its outer edge ; an irregularly dentate black subterminal line \ 

 cilia black. Hind wing semihyaline white ; the apical area suf- 

 fused with fuscous, the inner margin tinged with brown. Underside 

 of fore wing with the costa white to just beyond the postmedial 

 line ; hind wing with the discoidal point, postmedial series on the 

 veins, and black apical patch. 



Hah. N. S. Wales {J. J. Walher), 2 $ ; S. Australia, Parkside, 

 type t c5' in Coll. Lower. Exp. 36 millim. 



4062. Ariathisa hydraBcioides. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 4.) 



Aqrotis hydrcBcioides. Griien. Noct. i. p. 272 (1852). 

 Celmna imparata, Wlk. x. 2G8 (1856). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi whitish 

 with black patches at sides of 1st and 2nd joints ; tegulse- with 

 blackish medial line ; patagia edged with blackish ; pectus whitish 

 mixed with brown, the tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 whitish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing reddish brown with 

 slight dark irroration ; subbasal line double, blackish, from costa 

 to submedian fold in which there is a fine black streak from it to 

 just beyond antemedial line, which is double, waved, oblique ; 

 orbicular small, round, white defined by black ; reniform a narrow 

 white lunule with some blackish suffusion before it in cell and 

 brown line in middle expanding into a patch on its lower part 

 which is angled inwards on median nervure to below orbicular, 



