AKIATHISA. 405 



last with the orbicular defined by some black scales and the reni- 

 form filled in with blackish, hind wing darker. — Birchip. 



2 . Fore wing with tl:e reniform white with brown line in 

 middle, its lower extremity produced, the subtermiual line some- 

 times represented by a series of whitish marks slightly defined by 

 brown on inner side and excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 hind wing whiter. 



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



ffab. Victoria, Birchip {Lower), 1 c? ; S. Australia, Parkside 

 {Lower), 1 J , 2 5 . Exp. 34 millim. Type t in Coll. Lower. 



4078. Ariathisa adelphodes. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 19.) 



Carculrina adelphodes, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soe. N. S. W. xxvi. p. 654 (1902). 



c? . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with whitish ; palpi 

 dark brown at base, white at tips ; frons white below, dark brown 

 above ; pectus and legs white mixed with some brown ; abdomen 

 white slightly mixed Avith rufous, ventrally suff'used with rufous. 

 Fore wing white suffused and irrorated with briglit rufous ; sub- 

 basal line represented by small black spots below costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with white and with 

 black spots on the outer line at costa and submedian fold, oblique, 

 waved ; orbicular small, round, pure white defined by black ; reni- 

 form a small square pure white spot with black marks on inner 

 and outer sides ; postmedial line slight, blackish defined by whitish 

 on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then oblique, minutely 

 waved and slightly incurved at submedian fold, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side 

 by slight somewhat dentate black marks, angled outwards below 

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

 Hind wing pure white; the underside with the costal area slightly 

 irrorated with brown. 



Hob. jST. S. Wales, Broken Hill {Lower), 1 ^ . Exp. 32 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Lower. 



*4079. Ariathisa leucosticta. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 20.) 



Caradrina leucosticta, Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxxii. p. 58 (1908). 



5 . Head and thorax dull reddish brown, the head mixed with 

 ochreous white ; palpi black at base, whitish at tips ; fore tibiaj 

 and tarsi blackish ringed with ochreous white ; abdomen greyish 

 mixed with dark' brown. Fore wing dull reddish brown with a 

 purplish tinge and irrorated with black especially on the veins; 

 a slight streak of white scales in base of cell ; subbasal line 

 represented by two slight blackish strise from costa ; antemedial 

 line defined by greyish on inner side, double at costa, waved, 

 slightly oblique ; claviform absent ; orbicular a minute white 

 point ; reniform a small white spot surrounded by black scales ; 

 traces of a medial line ; postmedial line double at costa and with 

 black points beyond it on the veins, slightly bent outwards below costa 



