376 NOCTUID^.. 



IP'. Fore wing grey-white largely suffused with brown 



except on terminal area hetwsema, 



h. Fore wing with the terminal area not paler than the 

 postmedial area. 

 «'. Fore wing with wedge-shaped brown patch in and 

 beyond end of cell, obscured by brown suffusion in 



female nuna. 



hK Fore wing without wedge-shaped brown patch in and 

 beyond tne cell. 

 a-. Fore wing grey largely suffused and irrorated with 



fuscous mclodora. 



It". Fore wing grey tinged with brown but not largely 

 suffused with fuscous. 



«3. Tegulse blackish at base mcfaneura. 



cfi. TeguliB not blackish at base. 



a'^. Fore wing suffused in parts with ferruginous . sarcoinorpha. 



h*. Fore wing not suffused with ferruginous petroclora. 



c". Fore wing rufous. 



fl3. Fore wing tinged with brown and slightly irro- 



i-ated with black xerampelina. 



b^. Fore wing not tinged with brown and strongly 



irrorated with black plinthina. 



*4033. Omphaletis passalota. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 13.) 



I'romeiffpus passalota. Turner, ined. 



5 . Head and thorax black mixed with some white and ochreous 

 scales ; palpi with the extremities of the joints white ; tegulse 

 whitish at base and tips; pectus M'hite; tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen brown mixed with ochreous and white, the base 

 and slight segmental lines white, the ventral surface white 

 irrorated with brown and ochreous. Fore wing black mixed with 

 grey, the terminal area paler with white and ochreous scales 

 mixed, the veins of terminal area streaked with black ; a strong 

 black fascia below basal half of cell and a slight streak above base 

 of inner margin ; a wedge-shaped black patch in terminal half of 

 cell with the small round white orbicular on it, followed by a 

 triangular patch beyond the cell, its extremity bidentate ; ante- 

 medial line slight, represented bj' a long tooth in submedian fold, 

 then angled inwards on vein 1 ; postmedial line represented by a 

 whitish striga from costa, then blackish, bent outwards below 

 costa, defining the bidentate patch and angled inwards in sub- 

 median fold to the antemedial line, some whitish points beyond it on 

 costa; subterminal line only defined by the contrast between the 

 postmedial and terminal areas, and with slight black streaks before 

 it in the interspaces, slightly excurved at vein 7 ; a fine black 

 terminal line. Hind wing Avhitish suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 cilia white with a dark line near base from apex to vein 2 ; the 

 underside white irrorated with black, a small discoidal spot, post- 

 medial series of short streaks on the veins, and large apical blackish 

 patch. 



Hah. YicioEiA, Birchip, type f 5 in Coll. Turner. Exp. 26 

 millim. 



