432 NocTtriD^. 



5656. Ozarba sancta. (Plate CLXI. fig. 31.) 



Acontiola sancta, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 382, pi. 5. f. 4 (1899); id. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 225. 



J . Head and thorax white mixed with rufous ; abdomen yel- 

 lowish tinged with brown ; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen white, the tarsi brown ringed with white. Fore wing 

 white suffused with ochreous and rufous and slightlj' irrorated with 

 dark brown ; subbasal line represented by a white striga from 

 costa ; antemedial line white slightly defined at sides by brown, 

 somewhat sinuous and slightly oblique ; orbicular with white 

 annulus slightly defined by brown, round, a minute white spot 

 beyond it on median nervure ; reniform with white annulus incom- 

 pletely defined by black, narrow and somewhat oblique ; a blackish 

 medial shade, oblique from costa to reniform and inwardly oblique 

 below the cell; postmedial line double filled in with white, dilated 

 at costa, oblique to vein 6, slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved 

 and minutely waved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on 

 costa and a waved blackish shade from below costa to vein 4 ; sub- 

 terminal line white defined on inner side by fuscous brown forming 

 a difi'used patch on costal area, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle and angled inwards at discal fold; a terminal series of 

 minute black luuules defined on inner side by white ; cilia black 

 with white patches below apex and at middle. Hind wing golden 

 yellow with slight dark irr oration on apical area ; a fine waved 

 black terminal line ; cilia chequered fuscous and white. Underside 

 of fore wing yellow, the inner area whitish, a dark point in middle 

 of cell, discoidal striga, postmedial point on costa and apical brown 

 patch with some yellow points on costa ; hind wing with discoidal 

 point, postmedial point on costa and subterminal striga from costa. 

 2 . Hind wing with the basal half and termen irrorated with 

 fuscous, a difi'used fuscous subterminal band interrupted at vein 2 

 and submedian fold. 



Hah. Palestine, 1 J; Aden {Chevalier), \ 5; Arabia, Muscat 

 (Jayaher), 1 $ ; Persian Gtulf, Fao {Cuming), 1 S . Exp. 18 

 millim. 



5657. Ozarba varia. (Plate CLXI. fig. 32.) 

 Fanemeria varia, Wlk. xxxiii. 772 (1865). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with some whitish ; abdomen 

 yellow suffused with brown ; palpi, pectus, legs, and ventral surface 

 of abdomen yellow irrorated with red-broAvn. Fore wing red-brown 

 mixed with some yellow and whitish ; subbasal line represented by 

 two slight black points on costa ; antemedial line double, waved, 

 angled inwards in cell and submedian fold ; orbicular represented 

 by obliquely placed yellowish point in cell and white point on 

 median nervure incompletely defined by black ; reniform with 

 brown centre and white annulus incompletely defined by black, its 



