OMPHALETIS. 



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brownish at apex, the underside with post medial series of short 

 black streaks on the veins and apical blackish patch. 



£. Thorax and fore wing suffused with grey-brown or red- 

 brown, the triangular dark shade hardly traceable. 



Hah. N. S. Wales, Broken Hill (Lour,-), 4 <$ , 6 $; S. Aus- 

 tralia, Parkside (Ly'ell), 1 J. Exp. 30-34 millim. Type f 

 mtsombra in Coll. Lower. 



4037. Omphaletis melodora. 



Prometoptts melodora, Lower, IV. Linn. Sue. X. s. \V. xxvi. p. 645(1902), 2 • 

 Prometopus malacopis, Lower, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr. xxvi. p. 221 (1902), <$ . 



<$ . Head and thorax fuscous mixed with reddish ochreous ; 

 palpi yellowish white at tips; tarsi black ringed with white; 

 abdomen ochreous white slightly irrorated with black. Fore wing 

 prey tinged with brown and thickly irrorated and suffused with 

 fuscous; suhbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian 

 fold : autemedial line double, black filled in with reddish ochreous, 

 waved, oblique ; orbicular minute, round, reddish ochreous defined 

 by black; reniform narrow, reddish ochreous defined by black, its 

 lower part obscured by a black mark and its lower extremity 

 produced; a diffused dark medial line oblique from costa to median 

 ncrvure ; postmedial line blackish defined by ochreous on outer 



Fig. 100. — Omphaletis melodora, tf. \. 



side, double at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some ochreous points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line reddish ochreous defined by 

 blackish on inner side, slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of black stria? with ochreous points on their inner 

 side ; cilia fuscous at base, grey and fuscous at tips. Hind wing- 

 white tinged with pale brown especially on the veins ; a fine brown 

 terminal line; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and postmedial series 

 of slight streaks on the veins. 



5- Head, thorax, and fore wing slightly mixed with grey and 

 without any reddish ochreous tinge. 



Hah. X. S. Walks, Broken Hill {Lower), 17c?, 10 $ ; Victoria, 

 Birchip (Lyell), 1^,1$. Exp. 28-36 millim. Type 

 type t malacopis in Coll. Lower. 



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