AE^OPTEEA. 2o 



vein 3 ; a large brown patch on termen above forniis; a terminal 

 series of blackish points with rufous between them ; cilia white 

 mixed with brown. Hind wing white with diffused black subbasal 

 and medial bands from below coata to inner margin ; a fine sinuous 

 black postmedial line with some brown suffnsioii before it towards 

 costa ; subterminal line white with brownish suffusion before and 

 beyond it, minutely AVaved, excurved at middle and bent outwards 

 to tornus ; a red-brown terminal line with some black scales on it ; 

 cilia white slightly mixed with brown ; the underside white tinged 

 with brown, a dark discoidal striga. 



Hub. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 <S . Exp. 14 millim. 



*500y. Arseoptera obliqui fascia. (Plate CLII. fig. 1.) 



Arasoftera ohliquifascia, de Joan. ined. 



$ . Head and thorax white ; palpi fuscous at sides except at 

 tips ; abdomen whitish, the medial segments dorsally tinged with 

 fiesh-pink, the terminal segments with dark brown. Fore wing 

 white ; an inwardly oblique waved blackish antemedial line ; medial 

 area broadly suffused with fuscous except at costa, its inner edge 

 inwardly oblique, its outer excurved from vein 5 to termen above 

 tornus, a blackish spot on it at upper angle of cell and traces of a 

 postmedial line bent outwards below eosta and incurved below vein 

 4 ; a dark subterminal patch at discal fold ; cilia tinged with brown. 

 Hind wing white ; a slight oblique dark subbasal line; a medial 

 band of dark suffusion with black points on its edges, its inner edge 

 oblique, its outer excurved beyond the cell ; the terminal area 

 suffused with blackish; underside of both wings white tinged with 

 brown. 



Hnh. Maueitius, Curepipe (Carie), type f $ in Coll. Joannis. 

 Exp. 14 millim. 



5010. Arasoptera proleuca. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 14.) 



Arcpoptera proleuca, Hnipsn. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. See. xvii. p. 671 (1907)' 



(S . Head and thorax white, the latter slightly tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi rufous with some black at base of 2nd and 3rd joints ; frons 

 rufous with black bar above ; antennae rufous except at base ; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with I'ufous and with some fiery red on 

 1st two segments; fore legs blackish; pectus, mid and hind legs, 

 and ventral surface of abdomen white. Fore wing white sufi'uscd 

 in parts with rofous and brown ; a fulvous patch on costa near 

 base; an inwardly oblique minutely waved fulvous antemedial line ; 

 medial area suffused with pale brown except towards costa ; a black 

 lunule in upper extremity of cell with some fulvous above it on 

 costa with black point before it; postmedial line brown, excurved 

 from below costa to vein 4, then incurved and again excurved 

 towards inner margin ; postmedial part of costa with while jioints 

 with fulvous marks between them ; a whitish subterminal line with 



