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dots, the costal end projecting obliquely outward and again indistinctly merging into 

 the band on the disc ; an oblique dark brown-speckled fascia from the apex : hind- 

 wing cinereous-brown. Cilia whitish with a blackish line. Thorax white ; abdomen 

 cinereous, brown speckled ; legs with brown bands. 

 Expanse ro inch. 



Genus ODICE. 



Odice, lliibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 258 (1818-25). 



Microphisa* Boisduval, Index Meth. p. 170 (1840). 



Micwphysa, Guen. Ann. 8oc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 233 (1841); Walker, Catal. Lcp. Ilet. B. M. xii. p. 833. 

 Forewing elongated, rather broad, triangular ; cell extending to half the length ; 

 first subcostal emitted at two-fifths before end of the cell, second at one-ninth, trifid, 

 fifth from end of the cell, free ; discocellular bent close to each end, slightly concave 

 in the middle, radials from the angles ; middle median from angle close to end of 

 the cell, lower at two-fifths before the end ; submedian almost straight : hindwing 

 short ; cell broad, extending to half the length ; apex and exterior margin convex, 

 abdominal margin short ; discocellular bent near lower end, radial from the angle ; 

 two subcostals from end of the cell ; two upper medians from a footstalk at a short 

 distance beyond end of the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian and 

 internal vein straight. Cilia broad. Body small, moderately stout, abdomen not 

 extending beyond hindwings ; palpi ascending, reaching to the vertex, fusiform, 

 compactly squamose, apex short, conical ; antennge finely pectinated to the tip ; legs 

 squamose, somewliat long, middle and hind tibiae with long spurs. {Type, 0. inamtena.) 



ODICE TRANSVERSA (Plate 150, Fig. 15). 



Llale and female : forewing greyish violet-brown ; with a short black recurved 

 streak below base of the cell, a black transverse waved subbasal line, a broad 

 brownish-white medial ti-ansverse band with black- speckled borders, the band being 

 traversed along its outer border by a pale brown line ; outer area of the wing with 

 black streaks along the veins and crossed by a slender greyish-white zigzag sub- 

 marginal line ; cilia greyish -white: hindwing and abdomen cinereous-brown. Thorax, 

 head, and palpi violet-brown ; legs cinereous-brown, with darker brown tarsal bands. 



Expanse, $ fo, 2 i°ij inch. 



Hah. Ceylon. 



Allied to 0. abscissa, from S. Africa. 



Genus MARADANA. 

 Eorewing elongate, narrow, exterior margin slightly oblique and convex; cell 

 extending more than half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fourth before 



* Used for a genus of Hemiptera in 1834, by Westwood. 

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