382 



X0CTUID-E. 



*4042. Omphaletis plinthina. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 21.) 



Caradrina plinthina, Turner, ined. 



5 . Head and thorax bright rufous slightly mixed with black ; 

 tarsi banded with black ; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing 

 bright fiery rufous irrorated with black ; a waved black subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; a strong waved black ante- 

 medial line ; orbicular and renif'orm slightly defined by black, the 

 former round ; an indistinct waved medial shade ; postmedial line 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 tben incurved ; an indistinct diffused somewhat dentate subterminal 

 line ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing ochreous 

 white tinged with brown ; the underside with the apical area 

 suffused with brown. 



Hub. W. Australia, lloebourne, type f 5 in Coll. Turner. Exp. 

 36 millim. 



B. Frons with pointed process in middle of prominence ; bind wing with 

 vein 5 from below middle of discocellulars. 



4043. Omphaletis ethiopica, n. sp. 



2 . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous and some 

 fuscous ; palpi whitish, blackish towards tips : fore and mid tibiae 

 banded with blackish, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen ochreous mixed with brown, the ventral surface whitish. 



Fig. 101. 



-Omphaletis ethiopica, J 1 . 



Fore wing red-brown suffused in parts with bright rufous and 

 slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by a Blight 

 black striga from costa ; antemedial line black, waved, slightly 

 oblique, a slight black streak from it to postmedial line in sub- 

 median fold ; orbicular small, round, defined by black ; reniform 

 defined on inner side by a black bar, faintly defined on outer ; 

 postmedial black defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards 

 below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined 

 on inner side by slight dentate black marks angled outwards at 

 veins 7, 6, 4, 3 ; a terminal series of black stria? ; cilia brownish 

 white mixed with fuscous and with dark line at middle. Hind 

 wing ochreous suffused and irrorated with brown especially on 

 terminal area; an indistinct curved postmedial line, diffused sub- 

 terminal band, and fine black terminal line ; cilia blackish at base, 

 white at tips; the underside ochreous white irrorated with brown. 



