TEPHRINA. ORSONOBA. 211 



SECT. IV. Antennae of male minutely serrate ; fore wing without 

 fovea ; vein 11 anastomosing with 12; hind wing with fovea 

 at base of vein 8. 



3260. Tephrina ? purpurascens, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 261, pi. 8, fig. 19 ; 



C. $ S. no. 3597. 



cf . Dark purple-grey ; collar ochreous. Fore wing with an 

 ochreous costal fascia with dark striae on it and expanding into two 

 postmedial and a smaller apical patch; curved antemedial and 

 medial lines and two waved postmedial brown lines. Hind wing 

 with antemedial and medial sinuous lines and a waved postmedial 

 line ; both w r ings with fine marginal line. 



Hob. Sikhiin. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus OXYMACABJA. 

 Oxymacaria, Warr. Nov. Zool. p. 438 (1894). 



Type, 0. palliata, Hmpsn. 



Range. Nilgiris. 



Palpi short and hairy ; antennse of male with fascicles of long 

 cilia ; hind tibiae of male not dilated. Fore wing with a fovea ; 

 the apex produced and falcate ; vein 3 from, before angle of cell ; 

 7, 8, 9 stalked, from before upper angle; 10 and 11 stalked and 

 anastomosing with 12. Hind wing angled at vein 4 ; 3 from 

 before angle of cell. 



3261. Oxymacaria palliata, Hmpsn. 111. Het. viii, p. 113, pi. 151, 



figs. 5, 11. 



c? . Whitish, irrorated with olive-brown. Both wings with the 

 outer area suffused with olive-green ; an indistinct medial fuscous 

 line and submarginal line which is slightly sinuous on fore wing, 

 slightly angled at vein 6 on hind wing ; a marginal series of dark 

 specks. Underside of fore wing with subapical white speck. 



$ . Much paler ; both wings with postmedial series of dark 

 specks on the veins ; in some specimens there is a dark patch on 

 the middle of the series on fore wing ; the submarginal line 

 obsolete. 



Hob. Nilgiris. Exp., 3 38, $ 44 millim. 



Genus ORSONOBA. 



Orsonoba, Wlk. Cat. xx, p. 218 (1860). 

 Gonodontis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 287 (? 1818), non descr. 



Type, 0. clelia, Cram. 



Range, Throughout India and Ceylon ; Borneo ; Australia. 



Palpi thickly scaled and reaching beyond the frons ; antennse 

 bipectinated to two-thirds length in male ; hind tibiae not dilated. 

 Fore wing with the costa arched towards apex, which is somewhat 

 falcate ; the outer margin oblique, with two dentitions below apex ; 

 inner margin lobed at outer angle ; vein 3 from angle of cell ; 



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