. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. I'KOMETOITS. 'AOU *4023. Prometopus horologa. (Tlute CXXXI. fig. 7.) Ortlwsia horologa, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. o67. 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with blaclv and slightly with grey ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen pale. Fore wing clothed with grey, brown, and black scales ; an indis- tinct obliquely waved black aiitemedial line ; orbicular indistinct, rounded, with brownish centre, white annulus and black outline ; reniform strongly constricted at middle, white with brownish centres to upper and lowe
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. I'KOMETOITS. 'AOU *4023. Prometopus horologa. (Tlute CXXXI. fig. 7.) Ortlwsia horologa, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. o67. 5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with blaclv and slightly with grey ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen pale. Fore wing clothed with grey, brown, and black scales ; an indis- tinct obliquely waved black aiitemedial line ; orbicular indistinct, rounded, with brownish centre, white annulus and black outline ; reniform strongly constricted at middle, white with brownish centres to upper and lower lobes; the postmedial line black defined by Avhitish on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved; some white points on apical part of costa; an indistinct sinuous subterminal line with some dentate black marks on it; some black points on termen. Hind wing fuscous, whitish <.owards base; the underside white with the terminal area fuscous. Hah. Queensland, Brisbane in Coll. Turner. Exp. ,'50 millira. 4024. Prometopus inassueta. Pro'iiytopuf. Ina&mieta, Guen. Noet. i. p. 38 (1852). Bryophila dorsivaria, Wlk. xv. 10-48 (1858). Ag'rotis scotti, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. IIU. f. Ifi (1874). Caradrina chrohioneura. Turner, Pr. Linn. 8or. N. S \V. xxvii. p SiJ (1902). Erastroides Ikhnomima, Turner, Pr. Liun. Soc. X. S. W. xxvii. p. 110 (1902). Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with black and brown ; tibiae and tarsi banded black and white. Fore wing grey tingwl with green and irrorated with black and suffused at base and on disk with brown ; a curved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, then bent outwards above vein 1 ; an oblique. Fig. 96. —Proiuefopns inassiccia, (^. black antemedial line, angled inwards on vein 1 : reniform outlined in white and constricted at middle; a curved crenulate black postmedial line angled inwards in submedian fold ; some whitish points on costa towards apex; an obscure dentate subterminal line and black stre
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