380 



noctuio.t:. 



4038. Omphaletis metaneura. (Plate CXXX1. fig. 17.) 



Prometopus metaneura, Lower, ined. 



Palpi black at base, whitish at tips ; frons whitish at base, 

 blackish above ; vertex of head rufous ; tegulce black at base, 

 white at tips; thorax white tinged with brown; pectus white; 

 legs brownish with some blackish marks on mid tibiae, the tarsi 

 black ringed with white ; abdomen brownish white irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing grey-white sparsely irrorated with black, the 

 terminal area tinged with fiery red ; a fiery red streak in basal 

 half of submedian fold ; subbasal line waved, black, from costa to 

 median nervure ; antemedial line represented by black points on 

 costa, median nervure, and vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform defined 

 by fiery red, the former small, round, the latter with blackish 

 centre and white lunule on outer edge; medial black points on 

 costa and inner margin ; postmedial line represented by a series of 

 black points with more prominent spot at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line 

 represented by a series of slight black points with fiery red streaks 

 before them at middle, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of black striae : cilia grey mixed with 

 black. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown: cilia white ; the 

 underside whitish slightly irrorated with black, a small discoidal 

 spot, postmedial series of slight points on the veins, and apical 

 blackish patch. 



Ab. 1. Thorax and fore wing suffused with dark grey or fuscous. 



Ah. 2. Fore wing without red streaks. 



Hab. X . S. Wales, Broken Hill (Lower), 5 <3 , 8 2 ; Victoria, 

 Eirchip, 1 $ . Exy. 30-32 millim. Type t in Coll. Lower. 



*4039. Omphaletis sarcomorpha (Plate CXXXL fig. 18.) 



Prometopus sarcomorpha, Lower, Pr. Linu. Soc. N. S. W. xxvi. p. 646 

 ( L902). 



2 . Head and thorax grey tinged with pale rufous ; palpi and 

 lower part of frons white, the former with some black scales at 

 sides ; upper part of frons, a spot on vertex of head, and base of 

 palpi black ; legs fuscous and white ; pectus and abdomen white, 

 the latter dorsally irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey suffused 

 in parts with pale ferruginous; the subbasal line black, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line angled inwards 

 in cell and on vein 1, acutely outwards in submedian fold and above 

 inner margin; an indistinct irregularly waved medial line; reni- 

 form small, white, with some black scales on its edges ; postmedial 

 line dentate, strongly bent outwards below cosfa, then oblique ; 

 the veins of terminal area with slight black streaks ; faint traces 

 of a subterminal line ; cilia black and grey. Hind wing pale 

 brown ; the cilia white except at base ; the underside white 



