378 NocTuin.T;. 



black slightly defined by whitish on inner side, strongly angled 

 outwards in submedian fold and above inner margin, and with 

 short reddish ochreous streak before it in submedian fold ; orbicular 

 minute, round, reddish ochreous defined by black suffusion before 

 and beyond it ; reniform reddish ochreous defined by black, 

 Avith white mark in centre and brown mark in lower part, its 

 npper and lower extremities strongly produced ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, fine, blackish, slightly defined by grey on outer side, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate, strongly angled inwards 

 in submedian fold and outwards on vein 1 ; subterminal line 

 represented by the contrast between the postmedial and terminal 

 areas, and with slight deritate black marks on its inner edge, 

 incurved at discal fold and angled inwards in submedian fold ; a 

 terminal series of black strige ; cilia fuscous and greyish. Hind 

 wing white suffused with brown ; cilia white with series of 

 brownish spots at base from apex to vein 2 ; the underside irrorated 

 with brown, a black discoidal spot, diffused curved postmedial line, 

 and terminal series of striae. 



5 . Thorax and fore wing except terminal area blacker, the 

 whitish subcostal fascia obsolescent except towards base, the blackish 

 fascia below the cell obscured. 



Hah. N. S. Wales, Broken Hill {Lower), 7 J, 13 ? ; S. Aixs- 

 TRALiA, Adelaide (Lyell), 1 d . £lr^J. 24-30 millini. Type f in 

 Coll. Lower. 



4036. Omphaletis nuna. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 16.) 



Nitocris nuna, Guen. Ent. Mo. Mag. v. p. fi (1868). 



Orthosia mesomJ>ra, Lower, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xvii. p. 153(1893). 



S . Head and thorax grey tinged with rufous ; palpi black at 

 sides towards base, Avhitish in front ; tegulse blackish at base ; 

 pectus whitish, the legs tinged with rufous, the tarsi fuscous ringed 

 with whitish ; abdomen whitish dorsally tinged with rufous, 

 ventrally irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey tinged with 

 rufous and slightly irrorated with brown, a wedge-shaped blackish 

 shade from middle of cell to subterminal line from costa to vein 3 ; 

 subbasal line represented by black points on costa and median 

 nervure and red spot below the cell ; the antemedial line by black 

 points on costa. veins, and inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 fiery red defined by black, the former minute, round, the latter a 

 very oblique lunule ; postmedial line represented by black points on 

 costa, veins 7 to 3 and inner margin, bent outwards below costa, 

 some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a whitish edging to the black shade, slightly angled 

 outM^ards at vein 7 and obsolete below vein 3 ; a terminal series of 

 black striae defined by fiery red on inner side ; cilia with a slight 

 yellowish line at base. Hind wing semihyaline white, the apical 

 area and veins of terminal area tinged with brown ; cilia Avhite, 



