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nent spot at the end of the cell ; indications of an interior 

 brown transverse line ; a median brown line with black 

 marks on the veins, duplex in the female ; a similar inner 

 line running up and curving inwards on to the costa round 

 the cell-spot ; a submarginal pale sinuous line, marked with 

 black along its inner border, marginal black lunules in the 

 interspaces : hind wings grey, tinged with pale pink, the 

 tinge being deepest in the outer portions, where there are 

 some brown striations ; the basal portions are pale, and in 

 some examples nearly white, and limited by a brown median 

 sinuous band with black markings on the veins ; a short 

 similar subbasal band, also an indistinct submarginal band ; 

 in one example these bands are prominent, in others they 

 are more or less obsolete ; a black dot at end of cell and a 

 black lunular marginal band. On the underside the wings 

 are nearly pure white, with a broad black marginal band on 

 lore wings and at apex of hind wings, with the black cell- 

 spots large and prominent and the transverse lines more or 

 less visible. 



Expanse of wings 1 rV - 1t 6 o inch. 



Cherra Punji. Four males, one female. 



Tribe Pyeales. 

 Family Pyralidse. 

 Subfamily Pymalinm. 

 Genus Omphalomia, nov. 

 $ . Fore wing twice as long as broad ; costa bulged at 

 base, with a strong fold beneath, reaching nearly one third of 

 the length, concave in the middle, and convex again towards 

 apex ; apex blunt, outer margin slightly curved : hind 

 wings with the angles rounded. Fore wings beneath with a 

 tuft of hair-like scales along the subcostal, in the cell, and 

 along the submedian fold. Antenna} simple ; forehead hairy 

 below ; palpi flattened laterally, drooping, hairy. 

 Type : Omphalomia accersita. 



Superficially very much like Omphalocera, but distinguished 

 at once by the simple antenna? of the male and the tufts of 

 hair-like scales on the under surface of the fore wings. 



1. Omphalomia accersita, sp. n. 

 £ . Palpi brown, ochreous on the inner sides ; head, body, 

 and wings dark brown. Fore wings with the veins darker 

 and some darker suffusions in parts ; a small ochreous-grey 

 subcostal streak near the base, a similarly coloured streak or 

 line commencing at the costa close above the outer end of the 

 short subbasal streak, and terminating at the lower end of the 



