OJirHALETIS. 



379 



brownish at apex, tbe underside with postmedial series of short 

 black streaks on the veins and apical blackish patch. 



2 . Thorax and fore wing suffused with grey-brown or red- 

 brown, the triangular dark shade hardlj' traceable. 



Bnh. N. S. Wales, Broken Hill (Loiuer), 4 c^ , 6 $ ; S. Aus- 

 tralia, Parkside (Li/ell), 1 J- ^■'-P- 30-34 millim. Type f 

 niesombra in Coll. Lower. 



4037. Omphaletis melodora. 



Frometojyws melodora, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvi. p. 645 (1902), $ • 

 Fromatoptis onalacopis. Lower, Tr. R. Soc. S. Austr, xxvi. p. 221 (1902), j. 



6 . Head and thorax fuscous mixed with reddish ochreous ; 

 palpi yellowish white at tips ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous white slightly irrorated with black. Fore wing 

 grey tinged with brown and thickly irrorated and suffused with 

 fuscous; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to subraedian 

 fold : autemedial line double, black filled in with reddish ochreous, 

 waved, oblique ; orbicular minute, round, reddish ochreous defined 

 by black ; reniform narrow, reddish ochreous defined by black, its 

 lower part obscured by a black mark and its lower extremity 

 produced: a diffused dark medial line oblique from costa to median 

 ncrvure ; postmedial line blackish defined by ochreous on outer 



Fig. 100. — Omphale/ls mdodora, (^ . \. 



side, double at costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, excurved to rein 4, then incurved, some ochreous points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line reddish ochreous defined by 

 blackish on inner side, slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of black striae with ochreous points on their inner 

 side ; cilia fuscous at base, grey and fuscous at tips. Hind wing 

 white tinged with pale brown especially on the veins ; a fine brown 

 terminal line; the underside with the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and postmedial series 

 of slight streaks on the veins. 



5 . Head, thorax, and fore wing slightly mixed with grey and 

 without any reddish ochreous tinge. 



Hah. jSr.^8. Wales, Broken W\\\ {Lower), 17c?, 16 ?; Victokia, 

 Birchip {Lyell), 1 c? , 1 $ . Exp. 28-36 millim. Type t and 

 type t malacopis iu Coll. Lower. 



