PROMETOPUS. By W. Warren. 
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A. maculatra Lower (28 m). Eorewing pale purplish grey tinged with brown and with slight dark dust- maculaira. 
ing; lines black, indistinct, the inner oblique and dentate, preceded by another slighter line; outer outeurved 
and waved, with traces of another line beyond it marked on cellfold by a long black spot; subterminal pre¬ 
ceded by a dark shade; orbicular stigma a black dot; reniform an obscure small black lunule; hindwing white, 
the veins and margins tinged with ochreous brown. Described from a single from Queensland. 
A. bimacula Walk. (= terminata Hmps.) (28 m). Forewing pale yellowish ochreous dusted with dark; bimacula. 
terminal area dark brown beyond outer line, with the shade preceding subterminal line still deeper, its inward 
angle beyond cell marked by a dark blotch; inner and outer lines very fine, marked by slight scales; the median 
shade diffuse and plainer; orbicular stigma a strong black dot; reniform undefined except by a slight brown 
tint; in the $ said to be marked with two oblicpiely placed dark dots; hind wing whitish tinged with brown, 
especially on veins and along ter men. The type from Sarawak, Borneo; of terminata Hmps. from Bhutan; 
recorded also from Luzon, the Philippines; in the Tring Museum there are 4 from the Khasia Hills, Assam. 
A. variana Swinli. Forewing rufous grey, with slight brown dusting; inner line blackish, oblique, variana. 
strongly sinuous; orbicular stigma absent; reniform laterally defined by fuscous; a diffuse blackish median 
shade, bent in middle; outer line indistinct, excurved above and denticulate; hindwing whitish, tinged with 
ochreous brown on costal and terminal areas and on veins. Described from a single $ from Mhow, Bombay, 
which expans 26 mm. Not 16 mm. only. 
108. Genus: Prometopus Guen. 
Tongue developed; frons with a short truncate conical prominence, with raised rim and corneous 
plate below it; palpi obliquely porrect upwards, the second segment thickened with scales, the third slender, 
horizontally porrect; antennae of lamellate, pubescent; thorax with slight crests; abdomen without crests; 
forewing narrow, elongate, the apex rectangular; termen bent below middle, slightly insinuate above, very 
oblique below; no areole, veins 7, 8, 9, 10 being stalked; hindwing with 3, 4 and 6, 7 shortstalked. Type P. 
inassueta Guen. 
Of the 5 known species 3 are Australian and 1 from the Malay Islands. 
P. albistigma Swinli. (28 m). Forewing olive yellow; the costal edge black, the inner margin below vein albistigma. 
1 brown black; lines ill-defined, starting from whitish costal spots; inner line below median double, minutely 
waved; outer line crenulate, blackish, incurved below vein 4; a row of blackish streaks beyond it between the 
veins; reniform stigma an oblique oblong white patch reaching costa; hindwing brownish grey. Recorded from 
Singapore in the Malay peninsula and from Malang and Sandakan, Borneo. 
P. horologa Meyr. (28 n). Forewing a mixture of grey, brown, and blackish scales; lines black; the horologa. 
inner oblique and waved; the outer outwardly edged with whitish; subterminal line pale preceded by a dark 
shade; orbicular stigma rounded, its centre brown in a white annulus outlined with black; reniform a white 
lunule, with the upper and lower lobes brownish; hindwing fuscous, paler at base. Queensland. 
P. inassueta Guen. (= dorsivaria Walk., scotti Fldr., chromoneura Trnr., lichnomima Trnr.) (28 n). inassueta. 
Forewing greenish grey dusted with black and suffused with brown between outer and subterminal lines; lines 
black; the subbasal conspicuous, swollen above vein 1; the inner oblique, sharply angled outwards on fold 
and inwards on vein 1; outer line curved and crenulate, inangled on lower fold; reniform stigma with white 
outline, constricted at middle; subterminal line obscurely dentate; some black terminal streaks between veins 
before the black terminal points; hindwing fuscous brown. Queensland, Australia and Tasmania; the type of 
dorsivaria from this latter locality. 
P. nodyna Trnr. (28 n). Forewing grey dusted with blackish; a black streak from base above vein 1; nodyna. 
subbasal and inner lines blackish, oblique outwards; a broad dark median band, parallel to them; outer line 
black, outeurved, denticulate; subterminal grey, outwardly defined by small black dentate marks; orbicular stig¬ 
ma rounded, with some black dots round it; reniform large, brownish, with waved black edge; hindwing brown¬ 
ish grey, with veins and outer line darker; fringe of both wings chequered dark and light. Brisbane, Queensland. 
