372 NOCTUID^E. 



4028. Eremochroa macropa. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 11.) 



Praxis macropa, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxii. p. 16 (1897). 



c? . Head and thorax white irrorated with brown, the tips of 

 tegulse and the metathoracic crest red-brown ; palpi dark brown 

 except at base ; legs banded with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed 

 with ochreous ; abdomen grey-white suffused with brown. Fore 

 wing grey-white irrorated with brown and mostly suffused with 

 fiery red especially in and below cell and before subterminal line ; 

 subbasal line dark defined by whitish on outer side, excurved 

 below the cell and ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line dark brown 

 defined by whitish on inner side, waved, strongly incurved at 

 vein 1 ; claviform narrow and elongate, whitish defined by brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform minute, reddish white defined by black- 

 brown, the former round, the latter a narrow bar with short streak 

 below it ; postmedial line dark brown defined by whitish on outer 

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

 then oblique ; subterminal line yellow defined by fiery red on 

 inner side, dentate and rather obliquely curved ; cilia chequered 

 brown and reddish yellow at base, whitish at tips. Hind wing 

 greyish wholly suffused with brown ; cilia brownish at base, white 

 at tips-; the underside grey tinged with brown. 



Hah. X. S. Wales, Broken Hill {Lower, Lyett), 5 J . Exp. 

 42 millim. 



4029. Eremochroa paradesma. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 12.) 



Eremochroa paradesma, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvi. p. 645 

 (1902). 



cS . Head and thorax greyish tinged with reddish brown, the 

 metathoracic crest darker brown ; palpi browner at sides ; abdomen 

 whitish obscurely banded with brown. Fore wing pale grey- 

 brown with slight dark irroration, the discal and submedian folds 

 with a reddish ochreous tinge ; subbasal line represented by 

 dark points below costa and cell with some whitish on outer 

 side ; antemedial line brown defined by whitish on inner side, 

 rather oblique, waved ; claviform narrow, defined by brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform reddish ochreous, the former round, defined 

 by brown and with brownish centre, the latter defined by brown 

 at sides only and with brown mark in lower part, strongly 

 constricted at middle ; a rather diffused waved brown medial line ; 

 postmedial line formed by dark brown lunules defined by ochreous 

 white on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique 

 and excurved below submedian fold ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 whitish defined on inner side by small dentate dark brown marks, 

 angled inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of dark 

 strise ; cilia chequered brown and whitish and with fine brown 

 line through them. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged 



