406 NOCTTJID^. 



tc just beyond the cell, then jnimitel}^ waved and slightly incurved 

 below vciij 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by black scales and 

 very slight streaks on the veins, somewhat excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle ; a series of small white spots and black points on 

 termen. Hind wing grey uniformly tinged with brown ; the 

 underside whitish irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and 

 traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Victoria {Lijell), typef $ in Coll. Drake. Exp. 28 millim. 



4080. Ariathisa interferens. (Plate CXXXII. fig. 21.) 



Bianthoecia interferens, Wlk. xi. 507 (1857). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with some grey and 

 fuscous ; palpi black, white in front ; lower part of frons yellowish 

 white ; basal joint of antennae white in front ; tibiae and tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen greyish ochreous with slight 

 fuscous segmental lines. Fore wing grey suffused with rufous and 

 thickly irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal line black defined by 

 whitish on outer side, from costa to submedian fold ; antemodial 

 line double, black filled in with whitish, slightly angled outwards 

 below costa, then oblique, sinuous ; orbicular absent ; reniform a 

 black lunule with its lower extremity produced to postmedial line, 

 some whitish beyond it; postmedial line black defined by whitish 

 on outer side, double at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely waved, somewhat incurved below vein 4, some pale 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line slight, greyish, defined 

 on inner side by some dark suffusion and somewhat dentate black 

 marks at middle, very minutely waved. Hind wing greyish 

 suffused with yellowish brown; cilia Avhitish at tips; the underside 

 whitish tinged with ochreous and irrorated with fuscous, traces of 

 a postmedial line, a large apical blackish patch extending to discal 

 fold. 



Hal). S. Australia, Adelaide (Davies), 1 $ type ; W. Australia, 

 Perth, 2 5 ; Tasmania, Hobart (Norman), 1 c? . Ex/>. 28-30 millim, 



4083 . . Ariathisa flexirena. ( Plate CXXXII. fig. 22.) 



Apaoneafiexirena, Wlk. xxxii. 673 (1865). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; palpi black, 

 grey at tips ; frons with blackish band above ; tegulae whitish at 

 middle and with black point at base ; pectus white mixed with 

 some brown ; tibiae blackish, the tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish dorsally suffused with brown, ventrally irrorated 

 with brown. Fore wing grey suffused with fuscous brown and 

 irrorated slightly with fuscous, the antemedial area pale grey ; 

 subbasal line black, straight, from costa to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line black, oblique, almost straight ; orbicular a black point 

 slightly defined by ochreous ; reniform a black lunule with its 

 lower extremity produced to the postmedial line, a greyish patch 



