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postmedial line oblique, slightly incurved below discal fold ; subterminal line 

 ih6re golden with some cupreous bronze on its inner side and dark suffusion 

 before it and beyond it at apex, excurved from below cosba to vein 6, then 

 oblique ; a terminal series of slight golden strise. Hind wing fuscous brown 

 with a reddish bronze gloss ; cilia whitish with a dark line near base ; the 

 underside grey irrorated with brown, the terminal half suffused with brown 

 except the term en. 



Sahitat.—'N . India (Walhouse) ; Madras, Gooty (Campbell), Nilgiris 

 (Lindsay, Hampson) ; Ceylon, Maskeliya (de Mowbray), Pattipola (Green). 

 JSxp. 42-48 mill. Type in B. M. 



Genus Omobphina. 



Ti/pe. 



Omorphina, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., XXVI., p. 452 (1892). .aurantiaca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, slender, the 1st and 

 2nd joints fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd rather long ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes small, reniform ; antennas of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with rough hair only and without crests ; tibise clothed with long 

 hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. Fore- 

 wing short and broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomos- 

 ing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell . Hindwing with veins 3 '4 from 

 angle of cell ; 5 fully developed from above angle ; 6' 7 from upper angle ; 8 

 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2688«. Omokphina aurantiaca, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., XXVI., 



p. 452 (1392) ; id. Rom. Mem. ix., p. 

 41, pi. 1 f. 2. Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal., p. 220. 



Head, thorax and abdomen black clothed with bright rufous hair ; palpi 

 and legs with fuscous hair mixed, the anal tuft pale rufous. Forewing bright 

 rufous, the basal half slightly suffused with fuscous ; traces of a sinuous dark 

 antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform defined by deep rufous, the former 

 round, the latter narrow ; a deep rufous postmedial line, slightly bent out- 

 wards below costa, then waved, incurved at discal fold and strongly below 

 vein 4 ; a minutely waved rufous subterminal line ; cilia deep rufous. 

 Hindwing bright orange yellow ; the base and inner area suffused with 

 black, confluent with the black discoidal lunule ; a narrow black terminal 

 band ; cilia pale rufous, with dark line near base ; the underside with the 

 blackish suffusion confined to inner area. 



Habitat — Tibet ; Sikkim. Llxp. 24 mill. 



NOCTUIN-E. 

 2300. COSMOPHILA MESOGONA. 



Larva. Semi-looper. Grass green with numerous black-centred white 



