OMPHALETIS. 381 



irrorated with brown, with dark discoid al point, crenulate post- 

 medial line, and diffused black apical patch. 



Hah. Victoria, Gisborne, type f $ in Coll. Lower. ^.rp. 

 30 millim. 



*4040. Omphaletis petrodora. (Plate CXXXI. lig. 19.) 



Prometopus 2ietrodora, Lower, Pr. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. xxvi. p. 647 (1902). 



5 . Head and thorax white with a slight pale brown tinge ; 

 abdomen white slightly tinged with brown on dorsum. Foro 

 wing white irrorated with fuscous ; the subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; the antemedial line double, 

 oblique, waved, and excurved below cell ; traces of a waved medial 

 line ; reniform a small black and white lunule with some fuscous 

 at lower angle of cell ; traces of a double waved postmedial line 

 incurved to costa, with a series of black points on it on the veins ; 

 an indistinct sinuous subterminal line and a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing white slightly tinged with fuscous on 

 terminal area ; the underside with blackish apical patch. 



Hah. S. Australia, Parkside, type j- § in Coll. Lower. E.vp. 

 36 millim. 



4041. Omphaletis xerampelina. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 2Q.) 



Prometopus xerampelina. Turner, Tr. E. Soc. S. Austr. xxTiii. p. 214 

 (1904). 



5 . Head and thorax fiery red mixed with brown ; palpi at sides 

 and vertex of head with some black scales ; tegulae with slight 

 blackish medial line ; patagia with some black scales near upper 

 edge; tarsi banded with blackish; abdomen greyish tinged with 

 red and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing fiery red irrorated 

 with brown and some black scales ; subbasal line represented by 

 slight double black striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line 

 indistinctly double, slightly waved, oblique : claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniform rather small, very indistinctly defined by 

 blackish, the former round, the latter only defined on inner side ; 

 traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line dark defined by 

 red on outer side, slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some minute red points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight red 

 lunules with minute blackish streaks before them below costa and 

 at middle, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a slight waved black terminal line; cilia red mixed with 

 black. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown especially towards 

 termen ; cilia white tinged with red and with slight brown line 

 through them ; the underside white, the costal area and apical half 

 of terminal area irrorated with brown. 



Hah. W. Australia, Coolgardie, type f 5 in Coll. Turner; 

 S. Australia, Willochra (Loiver), 1 $ . Exp. 36 millim. 



