OJirHALOPHANA. 



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Genus OMPHALOPHANA, vox. 



Type, 0. antirrhini. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of head and clothed 

 with long hair, the 3rd joint ratlier long ; frons with small rounded prominence 

 with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male typically 

 with laminate serrations ; head and thorax clothed with rough hair and hair- 

 like scales, the vertex of head with large crest, the tegulte with dorsal ridge, 

 the pro- and nietathorax with double crests; tibiae fringed wifh long hair; 

 abdomen with srme rough hair at base, large crests on basal segments and 

 lateral fringes of hair. Eore wing with the costa almost straight, the termen 

 obliquely curved, the inner niai-gin slightly lobed near base ; 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 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male with laminate serrations. 



A. Fore wing with the cilia intersected by white streaks. 



a. Fore wing with the antemedial Hue erect, minutely 



waved aniirrhinl. 



b. Fore wing with the antemedial line excurved and approxi- 



mated to the postmedial line below cell, 

 a'. Fore wing with small orbicular and reniform stigmata 



with grey annnli serrata. 



b^. Fore wing with the orbicular an oblique white lunule, 



the reniform absent serratula, 



B. Fore wing with the cilia not intersected with white paidi. 



2207. Omphalophana antirrhini. 



Koctua aniirrhini, Hiibn. Eur. Srhmett., Noct. f. 2.n3 (1827); Dup. Lep. 

 Fr. vii. p. 264, pi. 116. f. 6; Frr. Beitr. ii. pi. 172; Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 213. 



Head and thorax grej'-white mixed with rufous and on thorax 

 ■with fuscous, the crests on head and prothorax darker at tips ; 



Fig. 26. — Omphalophana antirrhini, t^ . \. 



tarsi slightly ringed with white ; ahdonaen brown with slight white 

 seo-mental rings, the dorsal crests blackish, the ventral surface with 

 more w'hite, Tore wing pale olive-grey suffused with red-brown, 

 especially on medial area and beyond postmedial line ; antemedial 



