OliONTODES. 



H3 



waved ; a patch of blae-grej- suffusion irrorated with black in aud 

 below end of cell ; a black discoidal stn'ga with patches of chocolate- 

 brown beyond it and above it on costa ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with yellowish and defined on outer side by yellowish, 

 excurved and minutely waved, some white points beyond it on 



Fig. 48. — Faralo'phi rubiginea, 5- t- 



costa; pubtcrminal line white with blackish points beyond it below 

 veins 7, 5, 4, slightly angled outwards below costa, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle, then minutely M'aved ; a series of dark stria? 

 just before termen. Hind wing yellowish white, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown narrowing to a point at tornus ; cilia with 

 pale points at base and pale tips ; the underside yellowish white 

 thickly irrorated -with pale brown, the terminal area darker with 

 slight subterminal whitish streaks on the veins and terminal series 

 of dark points. 



Hah. Er. N. GtriNEA, Owgarra (i/ee^), type t 5 inCoU. Eethune- 

 Baker. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus ODONTODES. 



Type. 



Odontodes, Gnen. Noct. iii. p. 60 (1852) aleuca. 



Nedroma, "Wit. Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg. i. p. 353 (1869) aleuca. 



Burdria, Wlk. Char. Undescr. Het. p. 59 (1869) aleuca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching to vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, tlie 3rd rather long ; frons smooth, with tuft 

 of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennos of male minutely ciliated; thorax 

 clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests; tibiae slightly fringed 

 with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on 1st and 3rd segments. Fore wing 

 with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, crennlate, the tornus with 

 scale-tooth ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

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

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



A. Hind wing uniform black-brown with a slight bluish gloss, metameleeiia. 

 J}. Hind wing with the interspaces paler and somewhat 



semihyaline to beyond middle aleuca. 



6369. Odontodes metamelsena. (Plate CLXXYII. fig. 25.) 



Odontodes metamelcena, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xvi. p. 533 (1905). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and fuscous ; 

 pectus grey ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen fuscous slightly 



