620 Pieter C. T. Snellen on a 



183. Omiodes palliventralis, nov. spec. 



Three males of 30 — 32 mm. expanse. 



This species, also a true Omiodes, is allied to noctescens, Moore, 

 and still more to humeralis, Guenee ; the shape of the wings and 

 the length of the abdomen is the same as in these species, only the 

 hind wings are shorter at the anal angle, and the patagia also shorter, 

 not only than in humeralis, where they reach to the anal angle of 

 hind wings, but also than in noctescens, where they attain two- 

 thirds of these wings. In palliventralis they do not reach beyond 

 the middle of the said margin. Besides, the legs are only ochreous 

 white, not deep ochreous, as in noctescens, and the under side of 

 the body also. From both species paUiventralis is distinct by the 

 paler yellowish costa of the central area of fore wings. Labial 

 palpi reciorved, bicolorous, white and fuscous, as in humeralis. 

 Antennae setaceous, deep fuscous, as the thorax, the upper side of 

 the abdomen (with the anal tuft), and the wings. The ochreous 

 part of the costa of fore wings is not distinctly limited, extending 

 in one specimen to the apex, and it is suffused with fuscous scales ; 

 markings black, the lines thick, suffused ; the first oblique, the 

 second sinuate, as in the allied species ; discal spots of same size as 

 in noctescens. Hind wings with a very indistinct discal line ; 

 fringes fuscous, but in cells 1 h and 2 of fore wings white with 

 ochreous base, white-tipped in ceU 1 d and 2 of hind wings. Under 

 side of wings paler, greyer, with traces of a discal line ; sides of 

 the venter fuscous grey ; all tarsi and outside of fore tibiae white, 

 the remainder of the legs more greyish. 



Sikkim; Moller. 



Genus Omphisa, Moore, Lep. Ceyl., p. 318. 

 184. Omphisa anastomosalis. 

 Pionea ? anastomosalis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyr., p. 373. 

 Botys illisalis. Walker, Cat., 18, p. 653 ; Lederer, 



Wien. Ent. Mon., vii., p. 371, pi. 9, f. 12. 

 Omphisa illisalis, Moore, fcep. of Ceylon, p. 318, 



pi. 183, f. 4 ; S. & C, No. 4107. 

 Very rightly separated from Botys by Mr. Moore. 

 Sikkim; Moller. 



[Guenee's types, in very bad condition, were from 

 Java, Walker's from Ceylon and North India. The 

 species seems pretty common at low elevation, but I 

 have never taken it myself. — H. J. E.] 



