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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 

 SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IX 

 '• THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 

 PARt VII. 



By iSiK G. F. Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. 



{Continued from page 485 of this Volume.) 



Genus Omphalobasis. 

 Omphalobasis. — Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc, 1896, p. 525. 

 Ti/pe. — 0. chalyhopkta, Warr. 



Palpi down-curved, about two and a half times length of head, the 



2nd and 3rd joints thickly 

 fringed with hair above 

 ^ and below; maxillary palpi 

 '^ triangularly scaled ; frons 

 rounded; anteiinajof male 

 somewhat thickened and 

 Omphalobasis chulyboplcta $ \, flattened ; tibiae frinoed 



with rough hair. Forewing with the costa arched at base, then straio-ht, 

 the apes produced and acute ; the outer margin highly excurved from 

 below apex to vein 3 ; vein 3 from before angle of cell ; 4'5 from anole ; 

 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 stalked ; male with a glandular 

 swelling at base of costa below fringed with longhair. Hindwing with 

 the outer margin nearly straight from apex to vein 2 ; veins o, 4, o 

 from angle of cell ; 6, 7 stalked. 



45796. Omphalobasis chalybopicta. Warr., A. M. X. H. (Gj, xvii, 

 p. 452. 



$. Dark olive-brow u, slightly mixed with ochreous, and with a 

 jiurplish tinge. Forewing thickly irrorated with chalybeous scales ; an 

 obscure slightly curved oblique antemedial band without metalic scales 

 on it, and obscure patches at upper and lower angles of cell ; a sub- 

 marginal band with chalybeous edges, slightly excurved at middle, and 

 with a large rufous patch on its inner side below costa ; a chalybeous 

 marginal line. Hindwing ochreous ; the basal and inner areas suffused 

 with fuscous ; a large triangular olive-brown patch on medial outer 

 area irrorated with chalybeous scales and traversed by metallic-edged 

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