AIUATHISA. 403 



Jlah. N. S. Wales, Broken Hill {Loiver), 1 J , 1 $ . Eiy. 24 

 millim. Type f in Coll. Lower. 



4074. Ariathisa atrisquamata. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 15.) 



Caradrina atrisquamata, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxyi. p. 653 (1902). 



2 . Head and thorax dull broAvn ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdo- 

 men pale fuscous, the ventral surface white irrorated Avith brown. 

 Fore wing dull grey-brown irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line 

 double, the inner line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, the outer line black, irregularly waved ; 

 orbicular represented by a pale point ; reniforra small, quadrate, 

 blackish with grey edges, placed on the indistinct waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line indistinct, double, waved, bent outwards 

 below costa and incurved below vein 3 ; an indistinct sinuous sub- 

 terminal line with slight black streaks before it at middle. Hind 

 wing pale brown ; the underside whitish with discoidal points and 

 brownish apical patch. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the small white spot on outer edge of 

 reniform. — Tasmania. 



Hah. YiCTOEiA, Melbourne, tj-pe t ? in Coll. Lower ; Tasmania, 

 Hobart {Norman), 1 5 . Ea^p. I'G millim. 



4075. Ariathisa cryphsea. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 16.) 



Caradrina cryijh(Ba., Turner, Tr. K. Soc. S. Austr. xxxii. p. 68 (1908). 



cj . Head and thorax grey tinged with rufous ; palpi with black 

 patches at sides, whitish in front and at tips ; lower part of frons 

 white ; tegulte with slight medial brown line ; tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey. Fore wing grey tinged with rufous 

 especially on terminal area and slightly irrorated with black ; sub- 

 basal line represented by double black striae from costa ; antemedial 

 line double at costa, oblique, waved ; claviform absent ; orbicular a 

 small grey spot ringed with brown ; reniform a diffused rufous spot ; 

 a somewhat diffused blackish medial line, oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then slightly angled inwards below vein 2 ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double and with slight black streaks beyond the 

 inner line on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa, angled 

 inwards in discal fold and below vein 2 ; subterminal line only 

 defined by blackish suffLision on inner side, slightly angled outwards 

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

 Hind wing grey tinged with fuscous ; cilia whitish with fnscous 

 line through them, wholly fuscous except at base towards apex ; the 

 underside white tinged with brown except costal area which is 

 irrorated with black, the apical area suffused with fuscous, a small 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. More tinged with fuscous and with hardly any rufous 

 shades; fore wing with the medial shade stronger ; hind wing with 

 the underside whiter and with less black suffusion on apical area. 



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