OZAEBA. 395 



5598. Ozarba excisa. 



Omrha excisa, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B,M. viii. p. 7G, pi. 145. f. 21 (1891) ; id. 

 Moths Ind. ii- p. ('.32. 



5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with rufous ; palpi black in 

 front, pink behind ; tegulse ■ndth some bJack at base ; fore tibiae 

 and tarsi black ringed with pink ; abdomen grey suffused with 

 fuscous. Fore wiug grey tinged in parts with rufous especially on 

 medial and terminal areas and irrorated with fuscous, the costal 

 edge pink ; aubbasal line hardly traceable, double, waved, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinct, double, minutely waved, 

 oblique from costa to below the cell ; orbicular a whitish point with 

 a few black scales round it, the reniform an oblique black bar with 

 some ochreous scales on its outer edge ; medial line slight, oblique to 

 median nervure, then sinuous ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 6 and incurved below 

 vein 4, the costa beyond it with alternating black and pinkish 

 points ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, a black spot before it 

 below costa, then rather punctiform and defined on inner side by 

 black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale rufous with 

 some fuscous at base and tips. Underside of fore wing fuscous, the 

 costa pinkish, the veins of terminal area streaked with white; hind 

 Aving whiiish thickly irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, 

 rather diffused postmedial and subterminal lines, the latter with 

 whitish spots beyond it, a fine waved black terminal line. 



Hab. Madras, Nilgiris {Lindsaij), 1 $ type. Exi^. 28 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennje of male minutely ciliated. 



A. Hind tibise of male fringed on both sides with long hair. 



5599. Ozarba chinensis. 



Metachrostis chinensis, Leech, Trans. Eut. Soc. 1900, p. 156. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish mixed with fuscous brown, 

 the lower part of frons, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 white ; antennae ringed with black ; the fore tibiae and the tarsi 



Fig. 127. — Ozarba chinensis, cj". ^. 



blackish ringed with white. Fore wing brownish white irrorated 

 with black, the medial part of costa, a triangular patch from before 

 the reniform to inner margin, a patch beyond the reniform and 

 another on postmedial costal area grey suffused with black ; ante- 



