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4'-. Obelura gen. nov. 



Distinjiuisbed Lv the extraordinary length of the abdomen of both sexes, 

 eii(ieci;i,lly of tlie anal segment of the S, which is armed witli two lateral brushes 

 below ; also by the strongly crennlate outer margins of both wings; and the 

 three deejj excisions in that of the hindwing between nnal angle and middle. 



Type : Obelura do/icrti/i M'arr. (Banisia). 



4f». Pharambara acutalis. 



Pymlls arula! in W\k. xxxiv. p. 1523 (1865'). 



Micnisra ititeiis Butler, Ann. Mag. N. II. 1887. ii. p. 116. 



The type of acutalis, from Mysol, like that of inductalis mentioned above, is 

 a considerably worn and faded specimen, but is evidently, on comparison, identical 

 with Butler's nitens from Ahi. The species is of wide distribution, occurring, 

 besides the Malayan islands, commonly in the Solomons, New Guinea, and 

 North Australia. 



50. Pharambara cellulata spec nov. 



Forewing : hyaline ochreons, the bauds and strigulations dull red-brown ; the 

 inner margin, the base, and a costal streak are also sutfused with brown, two 

 basal dark bands leaving only a small pale spot below median ; a dark antemcdian 

 band with a pale one ou each side, the outer one swollen and traversed by a 

 reddish line ; postmedian band swollen below costa and in submedian interval, almost 

 interrupted between, forming a square spot at end of cell ; a broken brown 

 subajiical streak from subcostal area to outer margin at vein 4, and an erect 

 streak from anal angle ending in a fork at 4 ; the pale outer portion of wing 

 divided off by the red veins and transverse striae into aggregations of rounded 

 cells, a line of which also appears alternated with brown along the costa ; fringe 

 (worn) red-brown. 



Hinduiny : with a broadly forked brown median and a narrow excurved 

 postmedian baud, beyond which the wing is rufous-tinged, darker along outer 

 margin ; the cellular spaces touching the median band are all whitish hyaline. 



Underside buff, with all the dark markings dull brown ; forewing with 

 a streak of black and yellowish hairs along upper margin of cell and beyond 

 it, and an obliipie sinuous streak of the same across cell ; hindwing with the veins 

 and discocellular clothed with shining pale scales ; the costa striated with 

 dark brown. 



Head and thorax brown, the patagia oclireous and glossy; abdomen wanting. 



Expanse of wings : 33 mm. 



1 3 from West Java, 1892. 



Allied to Fit. semi perforata Warr., from India. 



51. Pharambara fractifascia .>ii''c. nov. 



Like F. squamigera Pag. from Natal, but distinguished in several jioiuts : — 

 Both wings are narrower, the forewing with less prominent apex ; the olive 

 brownish suffusion of the basal two-thirds of forewing not restricted to costal 

 area, bnt extending to inner margin, except on a small space at middle ; no 

 postmedian dark brown fascia, the dentate edge of the brown area ending in 

 a subfpadrate blotch on submedian interspace at two-thirds ; the curved sub- 



