AE.1ATHISA. 397 



4064. Ariathisa microspila. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 6.) 



Caradrina ?mcrospila, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. Is. S. W. xxvi. p. 648 (1902). 



(S . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey; palpi 

 ■whitish with black patches at sides of 1st and 2nd joints ; irons 

 with blackish band above ; tegul^ with black medial line ; pectus 

 white mixed with some fuscous ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with brown, ventrally irrorated 

 with brown. Pore wing grey suffused with fuscous brown, the 

 terminal area paler and tinged with rufous ; subbasal line double, 

 black filled in with grey, minutely waved, from costa to submediau 

 fold in which there is a fine black streak to just beyond antemedial 

 line, which is double filled in with grey, oblique, waved ; orbicular 

 a whitish point defined by black ; reniform whitish defined by 

 black and with black line in centre expanding into a patch below, 

 its lower extremity produced ; a sinuous blackish medial line ; 

 postmedial line black defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, slightly incurved at discal fold, 

 oblique below vein 4 and angled inwards at submedian fold ; sub- 

 terminal line defined by black suffusion on inner side and with 

 slight black streaks before it at middle, slightly excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia 

 whitish mixed with fuscous. Hind wing grey tinged with brown, 

 especially on terminal area ; cilia white with fuscous line through 

 them from apex to vein 2 ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown especially on costal area, a dark apical patch extending to 

 vein 6. 



Abdomen of male with lateral tufts of long white hair from base. 

 Hah. VicTOEiA, Birchip (Lyell), 2 c5' ; S. Australia, Parkside, 

 type t (5 in Coll. Lower. Ex2y. 28 millim. 



* 4065. Ariathisa atmoscopa. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 7.) 



Caradrina atmoscopa, Lower, Tr. E. Soc. S. Aiistr. xxvi. p. 223 (1902). 



Head and thorax fuscous brown; palpi with the 2nd joint and 

 the metathoracic crests tipped with grey ; pectus and legs with some 

 white mixed, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen brown 

 mixed with some grey. Fore wing fuscous brown mixed with 

 some grey ; a slight black streak below base of cell ; antemedial 

 line blackish defined on inner side by white, angled outwards below 

 costa, in submedian fold and to inner margin and inwards in cell 

 and on vein 1 ; orbicular minute, reddish defined by blackish, a 

 blackish streak from it to reniform, which has a reddish bar on 

 inner side followed by a small white lunule with a black streak 

 from it to termen ; postmedial line blackish defined on outer side 

 by white, slightly bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal 

 fold and below vein 4, then angled outwards at vein 1 and bent 

 inwards to inner margin at antemedial line, the veins beyond it 

 with black streaks, some white points on costa; subterminal line 



