r.UKMiM'H RO V . — M I < - 1 ;< 1 1' 1 \. 



373 



with ochrcous brown ; faint diffused brownish postmedial and 

 subterminal lines, rather more distinct on underside. 



Hah. S. Australia, Parkside {Lower), 1 3 . Exp. 40 millim. 



4030. Eremochroa alphitias. 

 Eremockroa alphitias, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soo. 1897, p. oG9. 



Head, thorax, and ahdoraen glossy white slightly tinged with 

 ochreous ; palpi tinged with red-brown at .sides ; tibiae and tarsi 

 slightly banded with nd-brown. Fore wing white irrorated with 

 reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by a slight striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with white, 

 slightly angled outwards below costa, more strongly in submedian 

 fold, and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform narrow, white 

 defined by brown above ; orbicular white with brown centre, 

 elongate elliptical; reniform defined by white at sides and with 



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Fig. i)7. — Eremochroa alphitias, $ , \. 



brown marks above and below, strongly constricted at middle ; 

 postmedial line slight, brown defined by white on outer side, 

 minutely dentate, oblique from costa to vein t>, then inwarely 

 oblique and slightly excurved below submedian fold ; a minutely 

 waved white subterminal line; cilia chequered while and reddish 

 brown. Hind wing white faintly tinged in parts with reddish 

 brown ; a brown terminal line ; the underside with traces of 

 diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hub. Queensland, Brisbane (Turner), 1 6 , 1 2 ■> Dalby (Turner), 



I tf ; W. Australia, Roebuck Bay (J. J. Waller), 1 $ ; N. S. Wa i is 

 (Baynor), 2 <$ , '2 5 , Broken Hill (Lower, Lijell), 5 J , 10 $ . 

 Exp. 30-40 millim. 



Genus MICR0PIA, nov. 



Type, M. rhodocentra. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi porrect, moderately scaled, not extending 

 beyond the large rounded frontal prominence with corneous plate below it : 

 eves large, round; antennae of female ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibiae smoothly scaled, the 

 fore tarsi with small curved claw-like spines on outer side of the joints ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the 

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

 cell ; 6 from upper angle; 1) from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 



II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, and 6, 7 stalked ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellnlars : 8 anastomosing with the cell near base onlv. 



