L\ U xoctuidj:. 



46G3. Phragmatiphila turpis. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 4.) 

 Jsonagria turpis, Butl. A. M. IV. H. (5) iv. p. 359 (1879). 



Head and thorax pale rufous ; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing ochreons tinged with rufous, a slight brown 

 shade below median nervure and between vein 4 and submedian 

 fold to near termen, the interspaces of costal area tinged with 

 brown on apical half, the terminal area tinged with brown ; a 

 slight dark mark in end of cell ; a posttnedial series of dark points 

 on the veins, excurved to vein 4. then oblique ; a terminal series 

 of slight dark points. Hind wing ochrcous whitish tinged with 

 brown: the underside whitish tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 1. Thorax suffused with dark brown ; fore wing with the 

 brown shade below the cell more distinct ; an indistinct dark ante- 

 medial line angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the 

 veins : the dark mark in end of cell prominent ; posfmedial line 

 indistinct, dentate, and produced to dark points on the veins ; 

 a aubterminal series of indistinct wedge-shaped dark marks, excurved 

 below vein 7 ; a terminal series of small black spots ; hind wing- 

 browner. 



Hab. Japan, Yokohama (Fryer), 7 <S , 3 5, Nagasaki (Leech), 



I $ . Exp. 30-32 millim. 



46(54. Phragmatiphila bipartita, n. sp. (Plate CXLIII. fig. 5.) 



2 . Head and front of thorax very dark red-brown with a 

 greyish ochreous ring at base of fcegulffi ; hind part of thorax 

 greyish ochreous : pectus and legs greyish ochreous mixed with 

 dark brown ; abdomen greyish ochreous. Fore wing with the 

 costal half greyish ochreous with some dark brown irroration on 

 costa ; a dark brown fascia from just above median nervure and 

 vein 4 from base to near termen, the inner area greyish ochreous 

 irrorated with dark brown ; a small subterminal black spot on 

 vein 5 and short streak on vein 4 ; cilia greyish ochreous with a 

 brown line through them. Hind wing grey-white tinged with 

 brown ; the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown. 



llab. Transvaal, White It. (Cooke), 1 $ type. Exp. 3'i millim. 



Genus OMPHALAGRIA, nov. 



Type, 0. hemiochr'a. 



Proboscis aborted, minute ; palpi porrect, extending to just beyond the Irons 

 and moderately clothed with scales ; frons with large rounded prominence 

 with truncate corneous process at middle with, raised edges ; eyes large, round ; 

 antenna 3 of female almost simple ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- 

 and metalhorax with spreading crests; tibia? moderatfly fringed with hair; 

 abdomen without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the 

 termen obliquely curved and not crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 ceil ; from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 



II from cell. Hind wing with veins 3,4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with 

 the. cell near base only. 



