OZARBA. 393 



postmedial hand, the terminal area dark with subterminal yellow 

 streaks on the veins ; hind wing orange with black discoidal point, 

 slight curved postmedial line, and rather maculate subterminal line. 

 Hub. Tkansvaal {Ross), 1 6 type. Exij. 32 millim. 



Genus OZARBA. 



Type. 



Osarba, Wlk. xxxii. 684 (1865) pimctigera. 



Acontiola, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 382 (1899) aancta. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joiut reaching 

 about to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; auteun£e of male typically minutely ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibiae typically 

 slightly fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and slightly crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7 from 

 angle ; 8, 9, 10 stalked ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from ano-le 

 of cell ; 5 almost fully developed from well below middle of discocellulars ; 

 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennce of male strongly laminate, minutely uniserrate towards 

 apex. 



A. Fore wing with small black spot on postmedial line at discal 



fold arenacea. 



B. Fore wing without small black spot on postmedial line at 



discal fold. 



a. Fore wing pale rufous more or less suffused with dark 



brown desUtufa. 



b. Fore wing purplish grey tinged in parts with rufous and 



irrorated with fuscous excisa. 



5596. Ozarba arenacea. 



Ozarba arenacea, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B.M. ix. p. 97, pi. 162. f. 3 (1893) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 331. 



5 . Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with greyish and with 

 a few dark scales ; tegulse with black line at base and streak at 

 middle ; pectus, legs, and abdomen greyish suffused with fuscous 

 brown, the fore tarsi black ringed with white. Pore wing greyish 

 suffused with rufous ; a dark point at base and subbasal dark points 

 on costa and in cell ; antemedial line indistinct, double, minutely 

 waved, oblique from costa to submedian fold where it is angled, 

 blackish points beyond it in and below cell ; reniform with rather 

 V-shaped black and white bar on inner side, faintly defined on outer ; 

 medial line oblique and with dark band beyond it from costa to 

 median nervure before the reniform, then sinuous ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, double, with dark spot at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, incurved below vein 4, a small black 

 spot on its outer edge at discal fold and a blackish patch on costal 

 area with some rufous points on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, defined on inner side by blackish points from costal patch to 

 inner margin and on outer by slight dark suftusion, somewhat 



