400 NOCTUIDJ?. 



4070. Ariathisa capularis. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 12.) 



Agrotis capularis, Guen. Noct. i p. 271 (1852). 

 Mameatra ignobilis, Wlk. ix. 239 (1856). 

 Graphlphora instipata, Wlk. x. 404 (1856). 

 Hadena cooigregata, Wlk. xi. 598 (1857). 

 Orthosia honifera, Wlk. xi. 747 (1857). 

 Celmna verecuncla, Wlk. xv. 1691 (1858). 

 Amphipyra cinctipes. Feld. Reis. JNov. pi. 111. f. 19 (1874). 

 Caradrina derosa, Morr. Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xviii. p. 121 (1875); Smith, 

 Oat. Noct. N. Am. p. 196. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi black at 

 base, whitish at tips ; lower part of frons whitish ; tegulfe with 

 slight dark medial line; pectus whitish except in froi)t; tarsi black 

 ringed with white ; abdomen whitish mixed with brown. Pore 

 wing grey irrorated with dark brown and mixed with white ; sub- 

 basal line represented by double black striae from costa and cell 

 filled in with whitish ; antemedial line double, black filled in with 

 whitish, oblique, waved ; orbicular small, round, white defined by 

 black ; reniform a pale i eddish Junule defined by black ; a sinuous 

 blackish medial line ; postmedial line double, black, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate, oblique and angled inwards in 

 submedian fold, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line slightly defined by blackish on inner side and with small 

 dentate black marks before it at middle, slightly angled outwards at 

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

 cilia with blackish line through them. Hind wing grey-brown ; 

 cilia white with brown line near base from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule and 

 postmedial series of short streaks on the veins, the area beyond it 

 suffused with brown becoming blackish at apex. 



Hah. N. S. Wales (Raynor), 1 § ; Victoria, Gisborne (Lyell), 2 S , 

 3 5 ; S. AusTEALiA, Adelaide, 1 c? type lunifera; Tasmania (Smith, 

 Butler), 3 cJ , 1 ? , types ignobilis, histijjata, congregata, Hobart 

 Norman, Lea), 3 J. Exj). 34-42 millim. Typet in Mus. Paris 

 (nd type t derosa in Coll. Michigan Agric. Coll. 5 the locality New 

 aersey is an error. 



4071. Ariathisa comma. 



Mamestra comma, Wlk. ix. 239 (1856) ; Biitl. Ins. Voy. Erebus & Tei-ror, 

 pi. ix. f. 6 ; Hudson, N. Zealand Moihs & Butterflies, p. 7, pi. v. ff. 27, 28. 

 Graphiphora implexa, Wlk. x. 405 (1856). 

 Hadom plusiaia, Wlk. xxxiii. 742 (1865). 

 Nitocris bicomma, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 4 (1868). 



S . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 black at base, whitish at tips ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale grey-brown ; subbasal 

 line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 double, waved, oblique, angled outwards in submedian fold; orbi- 

 cular a whitish point defined by black ; reniform ochreous white 

 defined by black and with blackish line in centre expanding into a 

 patch below, its lower extremity produced ; a sinuous medial line 



