370 noctuid.*:. 



side whitish irrorated with fuscous ; a prominent black discoidal 

 spot ; a dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 3. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 2 5; Tasmania (Butler), 

 1 J, 1 2, type dorsiuaria; Austkalia (Harrington), 1 $. Exp. 

 34-44 millim. 



*4025. Prornetopus nodyna. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 8.) 

 Frometopus nodyna, Turner, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxviii. p. 215 (1904). 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with black ; palpi with black 

 band on 2nd segment ; tibia? and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 brownish grey with the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing grey 

 thickly irrorated with black ; a diffused irregular black fascia 

 above base of vein 1 ; the subbasal line represented by an oblique 

 black striga from costa, with an oblique blackish baud beyond it 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, waved, 

 oblique ; orbicular rounded, incompletely defined by black points ; 

 a broad oblique medial black baud ; renif'orm large, brownish 

 defined by a waved blackish line ; postmedial line black, minutely 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line greyish, nulled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle, defined on outer side by small dentate 

 blackish marks, stronger above tomus ; cilia chequered grey and 

 blackish. Hind wing grey tinged with fuscous brown ; the 

 underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, a medial fuscous bar on costal area aud waved postmedial 

 line. 



Hub. Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), type fd in Coll. Turner. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus EREM0CHR0A. 



Type. 

 Eremochroa, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1807, p. 368 psammias. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, extending about the length of head and 

 moderately fringed with hair below ; frons with truncate conical prominence 

 with raised edges and corneous plate below it; eves large, round; antenna: 

 of male bipectinate with long branches to apex; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; 

 build slender ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests, long. Fore 

 wing long and narrow, the costa nearly straight, the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell to middle. 



A. Fore wing mostly suffused with rufous. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular yery indistinct, the clavi- 



form reduced to a point psammias. 



b. Fore wing with the orbicular distinct. 



«'. Fore wing with the claviform rather short, the lines 



moderately distinct therm iih.ni. 



