. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 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- ^â '-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,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 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- ^â '-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.âOmphale/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 s
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