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PROMETOPUS RUBRISPERSA, n. sp. 
(Rubrispersus, speckled with red.) 
Female, 30-32 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi pale reddish, 
irrorated with dark fuscous. Antenne ochreous-whitish. 
Abdomen pale grey. Legs, dark fuscous, irrorated and an- 
nulated with whitish. Forewings elongate-triangular, costa 
scarcely arched, apex round-pointed, termen moderately 
oblique, slightly bowed, slightly crenulate ; fuscous intimately 
mixed with blackish, whitish, and reddish scales, the last 
varying in depth of colour in different individuals; lines in- 
terrupted and indistinct, indicated by blackish scales, edged 
posteriorly by pale scales; two or three short sub-basal lines 
from costa to fold; an antemedian and a postmedian line; six 
to eight whitish dots on costa; orbicular reddish-white, edged 
thinly with blackish scales, circular; reniform similar in 
coloration as far as its median portion, the upper and lower 
parts obsolete, or faintly indicated by a thin, blackish out- 
line; a fine, dark fuscous, terminal line; cilia fuscous, mixed 
with pale reddish. Hindwings with termen rounded, wavy ; 
grey, paler towards base; cilia whitish. 
Type in Coll., Turner. 
Q., Brisbane, Toowoomba; four specimens. 
PROMETOPUS XERAMPELINA, n. Sp. 
( X erampelinos, reddish.) 
Female, 35 mm. Head, thorax, and palpi pale reddish, 
with scattered fuscous scales. Abdomen pale reddish- 
ochreous irrorated with fuscous. Legs pale reddish, irro- 
rated, and tarsi anvulated with dark fuscous. Forewings 
elongate-triangular, costa nearly straight, termen bowed, 
oblique, slightly crenulate; pale reddish, irrorated with fus- 
cous; a narrov’ fuscous antemedian line from one-quarter 
costa to two-fifths dorsum, outwardly curved, slightly den- 
tate; orbicular obsolete, reniform very faintly indicated; a 
narrow, fuscous, dentate postmedian line from mid-costa to 
three-fifths dorsum, outwardly curved in upper two-thirds; 
a sub-terminal series of pale reddish dots; terminal edge 
fuscous; cilia reddish barred by dark fuscous -irroration. 
Hindwings with termen slightly sigmoid; whitish; towards 
termen suffused with fuscous; cilia whitish, tinged with red- 
dish. 
Type in Coll., Turner. 
W.A., Coolgardie: oue specimen. 
