OMPHALETIS. 



*4034. Omphaletis exundans. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 14.) 



Nitocris exundans, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. 5 (18G8). 



Ewplexia mamesiroides, VVlk. Cbar. Lep. Het. p. 71 (1869). 



Caradrina oxygona, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. .\xvi. p. 651 (1902). 



Vromet(/pus jpoliophracta. Turner, Tr. E. Soc. S. Aiistr. xxxii. p. 57 (1908). 



J . Head and thorax pale grey irrorated with fuscous ; palpi 

 hlack, white in front and at tips ; trons and a bar between antennae 

 black ; tegular with the basal half black ; tarsi fuscous with whitish 

 rings ; abdomen grey sufl'used with fuscous. Fore wing purple- 

 grey irrorated with fuscous, the end of cell, area beyond it and 

 l^ostmedial area suffused with fuscous ; a slight rufous tinge in base 

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

 median fold ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved, angled 

 outwards in submedian fold and inwards on vein 1 ; claviform 

 absent; orbicular a small rufous spot defined by black; reniform 

 white tinged with rufous on inner side and defined by black, its 

 lower extremity acutely produced, a brown bar in middle and its 

 lower part filled in with black ; an indistinct oblique waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line black defined by grey on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, somewhat oblique 

 below vein 4, some grey points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line only defined by the contrast between the blackish and grey 

 areas, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a slight black 

 terminal line ; cilia fuscous with a fine yellowish line at base. 

 Hind wing grey suffused with fuscous : cilia whitish with a fuscous 

 line through them, wholly fuscous at apex except at base ; the 

 underside grey irrorated Avith fuscous, the costal area white 

 irrorated with black, the apical area suff'used with black, a slight 

 discoidal lunula and traces of a postuiedial series of slight dark 

 streaks on the veins. 



Hah. Victoria, Blackrock (Lyell), type t S poUophracta in Coll. 

 Drake, Black Porest, type t 6 o.vyf/ona in Coll, Lower. Exj). 36 

 millim. Type mamestroides in Mus. Melbourne examined by 

 Dr. Turner. 



4035. Omphaletis heliosema. (Plate CXXXT. fig. 15.) 



Frnmetojms heliosema, Lower, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxvi. p. 222 (1902). 



S . Head yellowish white slightly mixed with brown ; palpi 

 with fuscous marks at sides of 2nd and 3rd joints ; antennae 

 brownish ; thorax grey-white mixed with blackish ; pectus whitish ; 

 legs pale broAvn, the tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen white 

 tinged with pale brown. Fore wing grey-white suftused with 

 fuscous brown and slightly irrorated with black, a diff'used 

 Avhite fascia below costa to beyond middle, the terminal area 

 greyish ochreous ; subbasal line represented by a whitish point on 

 costa ; a diffused blackish fascia below base of cell ; antemedial line 

 with w^hitish point on costa, obsolete to median uervure, then fine. 



