GEAMMOSCELIS. OMPHALOSCELIS. 



469 



cell; antemedial line double, black filled in with whitish, angled 

 outwards below costa, inwards in submedian fold, then stronglv 

 bent outwards to inner margin ; claviform large, defined bj' black ; 

 orbicular and reniform moderate with brownish centres and whitish 

 annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, the latter 

 produced at upper extremity ; a slight medial brown shade, oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell ; postmedial line double, black 



Fig. 160. — Grammoscelis leuconeura, ^. \. 



filled in with whitish, stronglj^ bent outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and slightly sinuous ; subterminal line white defined on 

 inner side by dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 inwards at vein 2, then bent outwards to tornus ; a fine waved 

 black terminal line with white line on its inner edge ; cilia chequered 

 fuscous and brownish white with blackish line through them. Hind 

 wing pale suffused with brown, the inner area paler, the terminal 

 area darker ; cilia brownish at base, whitish at tips ; the underside 

 white irrorated with brown, a prominent black discoidal spot, strong 

 brown postmedial line and terminal series of brown striae. 



Hah. C. Colony, Deelfontein {Sloggett), 1 (^ type. Exp. 

 30 millim. 



Genus OMPHALOSCELIS, nov. 



Type, 0. lunosa. 



Pi-oboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, fringed with long hair 

 in front, the 3rd joint short ; frons with semicircular corneous prominence 

 with raised edges and corneous plate below it ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae 

 of male minutely sei'rate and fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed with hair 

 only, the vertex of head with large crest, the tegulaj produced to a slight dorsal 

 ridge, the pro- and metathorax without distinct crests ; abdomen with some rough 

 hair at base and lateral tufts of hair but without crests. Fore wing with the 

 termen evenly curved, 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 M'ing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



2684. Omphaloscelis lunosa. 



■ Noctua lunosa, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 230 (1809) ; Curt. Brit. Ent. p. 237 ; 

 Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 147 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 205. 

 Orthosia suhjecta, Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 295, pi. 27. f. 3 (1836). 

 Anchoscelis agrotoides, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. p. 486 (1839), non 



descr. 

 Orthosia neurodes, Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 94, 289 (1845). 



Head and thorax varying from pale greyish brown to bright 

 rufous or dark purplish red-brown ; sides of palpi and frons blackish 



