EREMOCHKOA. XICKOPIA. 373 



with ochreous brown ; faint diffused brownish postmedial and 

 subterminal lines, rather more distinct on underside. 



Hah. S. AtrsTEALiA, Parkside {Loiver), 1 J . E.vp. 40 millim. 



4030. Eremochroa alphitias, 



Eremochroa alphitias, Mejr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 369. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen glossy white slightly tinged with 

 ochreous; palpi tinged with red-brown at sides; tibiaj and tarsi 

 slightly banded with rfd-brown. Fore wing white irrorated with 

 reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by a slight striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with white, 

 slightly angled outwards below costa, more strongly in submedian 

 fold, and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform narrow, white 

 defined by brown above ; orbicular white with bi^own centre, 

 elongate elliptical ; reniform defined by white at sides and with 



Fig. 97. — Eremochroa alphitias, ^ , \. 



brown marks above and below, strongly constricted at middle; 

 postmedial line slight, brown defined by white on outer side, 

 minutely dentate, oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwarely 

 oblique and slightly excurved below submedian fold ; a minutely 

 waved white subterminal line ; cilia chequered white and reddish 

 brown. Hind wing white faintly tinged in parts with reddish 

 brown ; a brown terminal line ; the underside with traces of 

 diffused curved postmedial line. 



Hab. QuEEis^sLAND, Brisbane {Turner), Id,! $ , Dalby {Turner), 



I c? ; W. Australia, Koebuck Bay {J. J. Walker), 1 $ ; N. S. Wales 

 {Raynor), 2 (S , 2 $, Broken Hill {Lower, Lt/ell), 5 c{ , 10 5 . 

 Ex^). 30-40 millim. 



Genus MICHOPIA, nov. 



Type, M. rhodocentiv. 



Proboscis aborted, small ; palpi porrect, moderately scaled, not extending 

 beyond the largo rounded frontal prominence with corneous plate below it ; 

 eyes large, round; antennfe of female ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with 

 scales, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibiaa smoothly scaled, the 

 fore tarsi with small curved claw-like spines on outer side of the joints ; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the aj)ex rounded, the 

 termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; (5 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 



II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4, and H, 7 stalked ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; S anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



