870 NOCTUID^. 



side whitish irrorated with fuscous ; a prominent black discoidal 

 spot ; a dentate postmedial line bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 3. 



Hah. Queensland, Brisbane (Ttwne?-), 2 5; Tasmania. {Butler), 

 1 J,l $ , type dorsivaria ; Ausxkalia {Harrington), 1 §, E.vp. 

 34-44 millim, 



*4025. Prometopus nodyna. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 8.) 

 Frometojms nodyna, Turner, Tr. R. Soc. S. Aiistr. xxviii. p. 215 (1904). 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with black ; palpi with black 

 band on 2nd segment ; tibia3 and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 brownish grey with the dorsal crests blackish. Eore wing grey 

 thickly irrorated with black ; a diffused irregular black fascia 

 above base of vein 1 ; the subbasal line represented by an oblique 

 black striga from costa, with an oblique blackish band beyond it 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, waved, 

 oblique ; orbicular rounded, incompletely defined by black points ; 

 a broad oblique medial black baud ; reniform large, brownish 

 defined by a waved blackish line; postmedial line black, minutely 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; subtermiual line greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle, defined on outer side by small dentate 

 blackish marks, stronger above tornus ; cilia chequered grey and 

 blackish. Hind wing grey tinged with fuscous brown ; the 

 underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, a medial fuscous bar on costal area and waved postmedial 

 line, 



Hab. Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), type t c? in Coll. Turner. 

 Exp. 32 millim. 



Genus EREMOCHEOA. 



Type. 



Eremoch'oa, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 368 psammias. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi porrect, extending about tlie length of head and 

 TOoderately fringed with liair below ; frons vvitli truncate conical prominence 

 with raised edges and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennte 

 of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading crest ; 

 build slender ; tibiae smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests, long. Fore 

 wing long and narrow, the costa nearly straight, the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 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 3,4 from angle of cell; 6 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell to middle. 



A. Fore wing mostly suffused with rufous. 



a. Fore wing with the orbicular very indistinct, the clavi- 



form reduced to a point psammias. 



h. Fore wing with the orbicular distinct. 



a} , Fore wing with the claviform rather short, the lines 



moderately disl.iuct thermidora. 



