. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EREMOCHKOA. XICKOPIA. 373 with ochreous brown ; faint diffused brownish postmedial and subterminal lines, rather more distinct on underside. Hah. S. AtrsTEALiA, Parkside {Loiver), 1 J. 40 millim. 4030. Eremochroa alphitias, Eremochroa alphitias, Mejr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 369. Head, thorax, and abdomen glossy white slightly tinged with ochreous; palpi tinged with red-brown at sides; tibiaj and tarsi slightly banded with rfd-brown. Fore wing white irrorated with reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by a slight
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. EREMOCHKOA. XICKOPIA. 373 with ochreous brown ; faint diffused brownish postmedial and subterminal lines, rather more distinct on underside. Hah. S. AtrsTEALiA, Parkside {Loiver), 1 J. 40 millim. 4030. Eremochroa alphitias, Eremochroa alphitias, Mejr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 369. Head, thorax, and abdomen glossy white slightly tinged with ochreous; palpi tinged with red-brown at sides; tibiaj and tarsi slightly banded with rfd-brown. Fore wing white irrorated with reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by a slight striga from costa; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in with white, slightly angled outwards below costa, more strongly in submedian fold, and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform narrow, white defined by brown above ; orbicular white with bi^own centre, elongate elliptical; reniform defined by white at sides and with. Fig. 97.—Eremochroa alphitias, ^, \. brown marks above and below, strongly constricted at middle; postmedial line slight, brown defined by white on outer side, minutely dentate, oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwarely oblique and slightly excurved below submedian fold ; a minutely waved white subterminal line ; cilia chequered white and reddish brown. Hind wing white faintly tinged in parts with reddish brown ; a brown terminal line ; the underside with traces of diffused curved postmedial line. Hab. QuEEis^sLAND, Brisbane {Turner), Id,! $ , Dalby {Turner), I c? ; W. Australia, Koebuck Bay {J. J. Walker), 1 $ ; N. S. Wales {Raynor), 2 (S, 2 $, Broken Hill {Lower, Lt/ell), 5 c{, 10 5 . Ex^). 30-40 millim. Genus MICHOPIA, nov. Type, M. rhodocentiv. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi porrect, moderately scaled, not extending beyond the largo rounded frontal prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round; antennfe of female ciliated; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the metathorax with spreading crest; tibiaa smoothly scaled, the fore ta
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