AEiH:OPTEEA. - / 



Avhite ; a subbasal black point on costa ; anteraedial line oblique, 

 fulvous with black spot at costa ; a black point at upper angle of 

 cell with blackish patch above it on costa with fulvous streak below 

 it, some black-brown just beyond the cell and an oblique waved 

 fulvous line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line black-brown, excurved from below costa to vein 4, then beiit 

 outwards to tornus ; postmedial part of costa with white points with 

 black-brown streaks between them ; subterrainal line only defined 

 by a slight black-broAvn mark before it below costa and black -brown 

 patches beyond it at discal and submedian folds, minutely dentate, 

 angled outwards at vein 4, then incurved and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; a terminal series of small black spots with fulvous between 

 them ; cilia chequered blackish and white. Hind Aving grej'-white 

 slightly irrorated with rufous and dark brown scales ; a black point 

 at upper angle of cell with faint waved line from it to inner margin ; 

 a dark sinuous postmedial line ; a black-brown band across apical 

 area and a diffused sinuous rufous and dark brown subterminal 

 line ; a terminal series of black points with rufous between them; 

 the underside grey suffused with fuscous brown, a dark discoidal 

 bar. 



Ilah. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 S ■ Exj). 14 millim. 



5013. Araeoptera rufescens, n. sp. (Plate CXLIX. fig. 17.) 



cj* . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mix(;d with dark brown. 

 Fore wing giey-white with a purplish tinge, the medial area 

 yellowish tinged with rufous from cell to inner margin ; a subbasa' 

 black and rufous point on costa and small fuscous spots on median 

 nervure and vein 1 ; an antemedial black and rufous point on costa 

 and traces of a rufous line, slightly angled outwards on median 

 nervure, then oblique ; a blackish spot at upper angle of cell with 

 oblique shade from it to inner margin near tornus, some black and 

 rufous above it on costa ; postmedial line blackish and obliquely 

 bent outwards from costa to vein 4, then indistinct, rufous and 

 strongly bent inwards, the costa beyond it with black and white 

 points; an indistinct dark subterminal line, ending at tornus; the 

 apical area with some dark suffusion ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing yellow suffused with rufous, the apical area 

 suiTused with black ; a black discoidal point, slight sinuous post- 

 medial line, and traces of diffused subterminal line ; a terminal series 

 of black points ; cilia grey mixed with broAvn ; the underside 

 3'ellowish suffused with brown. 



Hab. Ceylon, Kegalle (Alston), 1 c? type. Exj'- 10 millim. 



501 4. Araeoptera pictalis. 



ArcBopferon pidale, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 137, pi. 168. f. 19 (1893). 



5 . Head and thorax grey-white slightly mixed with rcd-browu ; 

 palpi and frons blackish brown ; antennae brown except at base ; 



