OMPHALITIS. 381 



irrorated with brown, with dark discoidal point, crenulate post- 

 medial line, and diffused black apical patch. 



Hah. Victobia., Gisborne, type t $ in Coll. Lower. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



*4040. Omphaletis petrodora. (Plate CXXXI. iig. 19.) 

 Prometopus petrodora. Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. ?J. S. W. xxvi. p. 647 (1902). 



$ . Head and thorax white with a slight pale brown tinge ; 

 abdomen white slightly tinged with brown on dorsum. Lore 

 wing white irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, 

 oblique, waved, and excurved below cell ; traces of a waved medial 

 line ; reniform a small black and white lunule with some fuscous 

 at lower angle of cell ; traces of a double waved postmedial line 

 incurved to costa, with a series of black points on it on the veins; 

 an indistinct sinuous subterminal line and a terminal scries of 

 black points. Hind wing white slightly tinged with fuscous on 

 terminal area ; the underside with blackish apical patch. 



Hah. S. Australia, Parkside, type -j- § in Coll. Lower. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



4041. Omphaletis xerampelina. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 20.) 

 Prometopus xerampelina, Turner, Tr. 11. Soc. S. Austr. xxviii. p. 214 



(iyu4). 



5 . Head and thorax fiery red mixed with brown ; palpi at sides 



and vertex of head with some black scales; tegulae with slight 



blackish medial line ; patagia with some black scales near upper 



edge; tarsi banded with blackish; abdomen greyish tinged with 



red and irrorated with fuscous. Lore wing fiery red irrorated 



with brown and some black scales ; subbasal line represented by 



slight double black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line 



indistinctly double, slightly waved, oblique: claviform absent; 



orbicular and reniform rather small, very indistinctly defined by 



blackish, the former round, the latter only defined on inner side ; 



traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line dark defined by 



red on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 



excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some minute red points beyond 



it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight red 



lunules with minute blackish streaks before them below costa and 



at middle, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 



middle ; a slight waved black terminal line ; cilia red mixed with 



black. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown especially towards 



termen ; cilia white tinged with red and with slight brown line 



through them ; the underside white, the costal area and apical half 



of terminal area irrorated with brown. 



Hob. W. Australia, Coolgardie, typcf 2 in Coll. Turner; 

 S. Australia, Willochra (Lower), 1 $ . Exp. 36 inillim. 



