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110. Genus: Micropia limps. 
Tongue aborted, small; frons with large rounded prominence with a corneous plate below it; palpi 
porrect, smooth, not extending beyond the frons; antennae (of $) ciliated; thorax and abdomen without crests; 
tibiae smoothly scaled; the fore tarsi with small curved claw-like spines on outer side of first segment; fore¬ 
wing with apex rounded, the termen evenly curved; neuration normal, except that in the hinclwing veins 3, 4 
and 6, 7 are stalked. Type M. rhodocentra Loiver. 
M. rhodocentra Loiver. Forewing brownish grey with fuscous dusting; a thin fiery red streak below rhodocentra. 
base of cell; traces of an erect dark inner line; orbicular and reniform pale fiery red defined by blackish, the 
former minute, round, the latter a small lunule; outer line hardly traceable, excurved from costa to vein 4, 
incurved and double from lower edge of reniform to inner margin; traces of a subterminal series of whitish 
dots with slight dark streaks before them; a fine terminal black line with fiery red scales before it; hindwing 
white tinged with brown, the fringe white. Described from a single $ from Broken Hill, N. S. Wales. 
111. Genus: Oiiiplialetis Hmps. 
Tongue fully developed; palpi upturned, the second segment moderately scaled, the third short; frons 
with short truncate conical prominence with raised rim, a truncate or pointed corneous process in centre and 
corneous plate below it; antennae of <$ either bipectinate or ciliated; thorax and abdomen without crests; 
fore tarsi with more or less developed curved clawlike spines at outer sides of segments; wings with normal neuration. 
Type 0. florescens Walk. The 10 species are all Australian. 
Sect. I. Antennae of bipectinated with moderate branches. 
0. florescens Walk. (— lucasii Btlr.) (28 n). Forewing whitish suffused with greyish brown and rufous, florescens. 
the submedian fold with a fiery red streak at base, becoming yellow to outer line; terminal area bluish white; 
inner line double, dark filled in with whitish, angled outwards below costa, then oblique and waved; orbicular 
stigma minute, round, fiery red edged with blackish; reniform with reddish bar, inwardly defined by blackish, 
its outer part white with a black mark in its lower half; a dark bent median shade; a yellowish streak beyond 
the reniform; outer line double, filled in with yellowish, the inner arm black, the outer brown, bent outwards 
below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4; subterminal line whitish inwardly defined by brown, angled 
inwards on each fold; a row of slight black terminal dots; hindwing white flushed with reddish brown; fringe 
pure white. Queensland, N. S. Wales, Victoria, S. Australia. 
Sect. II. Antennae of $ ciliated. 
0. passalota Trnr. (29 d). Fore wing black mixed with grey, the terminal area paler, with mixed white passalota. 
and ochreous scales, the veins through them black; a strong black streak below basal half of cell, and a slight 
streak above base of inner margin; a wedge-shaped black patch in outer half of cell, containing the small round 
white orbicular stigma, followed by a triangular patch beyond cell with bidentate extremity; inner line slight, 
forming a long tooth on submedian fold and angled inwards on vein 1; outer line represented by a whitish 
striga from costa, then blackish, bent outwards below costa, defining the bidentate patch, and angled inwards 
in submedian fold to the inner line; subterminal line defined only by the contrast between the two shades of 
colour, with black streaks before it in the intervals; hindwing whitish suffused with fuscous brown; under¬ 
side white irrorated with black; a small discoidal spot; outer'series of short streaks on the veins; a large 
blackish apical patch. Described from a single $ from Birchip, Victoria. 
0. exundans Guen. (— mamestroides Walk., oxygona Loiver, poliopliracta Trnr.) (29 d). Forewing purple exundans. 
grey irrorated with fuscous; the end of cell, area beyond it, and postmedian area suffused with fuscous; a rufous 
tinge in base of submedian fold; subbasal line black; inner line double, oblique, waved, angled outwards in 
submedian fold and inwards on vein 1; orbicular stigma a small rufous spot edged with black; reniform white, 
tinged inwardly with rufous and defined by black, its lower end acutely produced, a brown bar in middle, its 
lower half filled in with black; median line obliquely waved; outer line black outwardly defined by grey, 
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