402 NOCTUIDiE. 



medial lino ; postmedial line indistinct, Llackish, bent outwards 

 below costs, then dentate, angled inwards in submedian fold; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, dark, with slight black streak before it at 

 middle, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique ; cilia 

 fuscous mixed with some grej'ish brown. Hind wing fuscous brown 

 with a greyish tinge ; cilia white at tips ; the underside whitish, 

 suffused and irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal lunule, traces 

 of a curved postmedial line and apical blackish patch exteuding to 

 vein 6. 



Ab. 1. Pore wing with white point at lower extremity of reni- 

 form, the lines and markings more distinct. 



Ab, 2. lucifera. Pore wing with the reniform white. 



Ab. 3. testaceicollis. Tegulse Avhitish, tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 4. Hind wang whitish, the veins and markings tiuged with 

 brown. 



(a) cinereicoUis. Tegulse grey ; fore wing black with the 



markings prominent. 



(b) restituta. Tegulse concolorous ; fore wing greyish fuscous 



with the markings obsolescent. 

 Hah. Queensland, Moreton Bay {Diggles), 2 $ type collaris ; 

 N. S. Wales (Jiaynor), 1 5 : S. Austealia, Parkside (Loiucr), 1 cJ , 

 2 § ; Tasmania (HarclwicJce, DoiMeday), 3 $ type luciffra, 

 Launceston {Littler). 1 c? . Exp. 36-42 millim. Types f atra, 

 testaceicollis, cineriecoUis, and restituta in Mus. Paris. 



4073. Ariathisa microdes. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 14.) 

 Caradrina microdes, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. sxvi. p. 649 (1902). 



J . Head and thorax pale rufous mixed with fuscous ; palpi 

 black, ochreous at tips ; pectus whitish ; tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing fuscous 

 mixed with some grey and rufoias ; subbasal line black defined b}' 

 grey on outer side, excurved below^ costa and ending at submedian 

 fold in which there is a slight lulvous streak beyond it; autemedial 

 line black defined by grey on inner side, oblique, minutely waved ; 

 orbicular a fulvous point defined by black ; reniform a small white 

 lunule defined by black and some fulvous scales, its lower extremity 

 slightly prodticed ; a somewhat diffused oblique blackish medial line ; 

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

 below costa, then oblique, minutely waved and slightly incurved at 

 submedian fold, some ochreous points beyond it on costa ; subter- 

 minal line indistinct, greyish, slightly defined by fuscous on inner 

 side and with slight black and fulvous streaks before it at middle, 

 somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series 

 of black points. Hind wing grey tinged with reddish brown ; cilia 

 white with brownish line at base ; the underside white irrorated 

 with brown, thickly on costal area, a black discoidal lunule and 

 diffused brown apical patch extending to discal fold, 



$ . Pore wing more uniform in colour, the markings indistinct, 

 the reniform with brown centie. 



