ARIATHTSA. 



401 



excurvcd in cell ; postmedial line double, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely waved, oblique and slightly angled 

 inwards in submedian fold, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line brown, defined on inner side by somewhat dentate 

 black marks from costa to vein 3, slightly excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle ; cilia tinged Avith fuscous. Hind wing reddish 



Fig. 105.— Ariaihisa comma, (^ . i. 



brown ; cilia with ochreous line at base followed by a brown line and 

 white tips ; the underside v/hite irrorated with brown, the inner 

 and terminal areas tinged with brown, a slight blackish discoidal 

 lunule, oblique postmedial line and, diffused subterminal band 

 expanding into a diffused apical patch. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing blackish glossed with grey, the 

 last with the markings less prominent. 



Ilab. jST. Zealand (Ghurton, Colenso, Smith, Alatheiu, J. J. Walker, 

 Hudson), 3 c?, 11 2 , type and type implexa, Dunedin (Purdie), 

 2 cJ , 1 $ , Marlborough (Skelton), 2 d , Auckland (O.vley), 2 J type 

 plusiata, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Eakaia. Exp. 32- 

 40 millim. 



Larva. Hudson, New Zealand Moths & Butterflies, p. 7, pi. 3. f. 11. 



Dark brown tinged with pink ; subdorsal area paler ; a series of 

 oblique black streaks on each segment, the thoracic somites darker. 

 Feeds on various low plants, 1. 



4072. AriatMsa atra. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 13.) 



Agrotis atra, Guen. Noct. i. p. 272 (1852). 

 Agrotis testaceicoUis, Gueu. Noct. i. p. 273 (1852). 

 Agrotis clnereicollis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 273 (1852). 

 Agrotig restWuta, Guen. Noct. i. p. 273(1852). 

 Mamestra lucifera, Wlk. xxxii. (i6S (1865). 

 Xylina coUaris, Wlk. xxxiii. 752 (1865). 



Head and thorax black with a greyish gloss and slightly mixed 

 with grey ; palpi black at base, whitish at tips ; tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen greyish brown. Pore wing black- 

 brown with a greyish gloss ; subbasal line represented by blackish 

 points below costa and cell ; antemedial line indistinct, blackish, 

 waved, oblique ; orbicular minute, round, ochreous white defined 

 by black ; reniform a small ochreous brown lunule defined by 

 black, with slight dark line in centre and diffused dark shade before 

 it, its lower extremity produced to a point ; an indistinct sinuous 



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