374 xocruiii.i:. 



4031. Micropia rhodocentra. 



Promctopus rhodocentra, Lower, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxvi. p. 222 (1902). 



2 • Head and thorax greyish mixed with brown and tinged 

 with rufous ; abdomen whitish slightly tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing greyish suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a 

 slight fiery red streak below base of cell ; traces of an erect dark 

 antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform pale fiery red defined by 

 blackish, the former minute, round, the latter a small lunule ; 



Fig. 98. — Micropia rhodocentra, 5- J- 



postmedial line hardly traceable and excurved from costa to 

 vein 4, incurved and double from lower edge of reniform to inner 

 margin ; traces of a subterminal series of whitish points with 

 slight dark streaks before them ; a fine terminal black line with 

 fiery red scales before it. Hind wing white tinged with brown, 

 the cilia white. 



Hat,. X. S. Wales, Eroken Hill {Lower), 1 £ . Exp. 24 millim. 



Genus OMPHALETIS, nov. 



Type, 0. florescens. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 nbout to middle of irons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd 

 short ; frons with short truncate conical prominence with raised edges, 

 truncate or pointed corneous process in centre, and corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, round; antennre of male typically bipeetinate with short branches, 

 the apex serrate; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the prothorax without 

 distinct crest, the metatborax with small paired crests; tibia? fringed with 

 long hair, the fore tarsi with more or less developed curved claw-like spines 

 at ourer side of joins; abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, 

 the apex rounded, the term en evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; veins 

 •i and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins .'5, 4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from or from below middle of discocellulars ; 6, 

 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sf.ct. I. Antennae of male with moderate branches, the apex serrate. 



4032. Omphaletis florescens. 



Cdcenafloresrciis, Wlk. x. 208 (1856). 



Miana lucasii, Bull. A. M. N. H. (5) ix. p. 89 (1882). 



Head and thorax cupreous red mixed with white and some black 

 pcales ; palpi white at tips; tegula? with rufous medial line and 

 white tips: pectus and legs whitish, the fore tibiae and tarsi 



