OMOKPIUXA. 



lOli 



M. Putagia not tlilafetl with scales at 

 extremity. 

 a^. Fore wing with the inner margin 



excised towaids torniis Eospiiokopteuyx, p. 446. 



bo. Fore wing with the inner margin 



not excised towards tormis .... PiiytOxMete,\, p. 45-. 

 /r*. Abdomen with ridges of hair on basal 

 segments, but witiiout crests. 



(1^. Eyes small, elliptical Omorpmina, p 403. 



b*. Eyes large, round Pal.eoplusia, p. 581. 



Genus OMOEPHINA. 



Type. 



Omorphina, Alph. Ilor. (Soc. Ent. Eoss. xxvi. p. 452(1892) aurantiaca. 



Pi'oboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and fringed witli long hair in front, tlie 3rd moderate; fVoiis smooth, 

 witli tuft of hair; eyes ratlier small and elliptical, overhung by long cilia; 

 antenna; of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only and with- 

 out crests; tibia; fringed with rather long hair; abdomen dorsally clotlied 

 with rough hair at base but without crests. Fore wing witii the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell, i'i from upper angle, 9 i'rom 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; 

 veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



8220. Omorpliina aurantiaca. 



Omorphina aurantiaca, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xxvi. p. 452 (1892); 



id. Rom. Mem. ix. p. 41, pi. i. f. 2 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220. 

 Omorphina chrysostigma, Piing. Iris, xix. p. 223 (1906). 



Head and thorax rufous ; antennje grey ; palpi grey mixed with 

 bro\vn ; tarsi grey ; abdomen dark grey-brown with some rufous 

 hair towards base of doi-sum, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral 

 surface grey. Fore wins: rufous slio-htlv tino'ed with greyish, the 

 postmedial area somewhat ]ialer ; an indistinct brown antemedial 



Fig. 103. — Omorphina auran/iaca, (^ . \. 



line, incurved in cell ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined 

 ])y brown, the former round, the latter narrow and ellij^tical ; i^ost- 

 inedial line indistinct, brown, excurved below costa, incurved at 

 discal fold, incurved below vein l and excurved below submedian 



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