274 OZARBA. By W. Warren. 



a corneous plate below it: palpi obliquely porrect, short; antennae of $ ciliated; thorax and abdomen scaled; 

 a small crest on basal segment of dorsum; neuration of wings normal. Larva on low plants; green with white 

 spots and lines. Type Ph. obliterata Rmb. 



numerica. Ph. numerica Bsd. (51 k). Forewing deep golden brown irrorated with white; inner and outer lines 



double, black brown, filled in with white; the former waved, oblique; the outer incurved beyond cell to reni- 

 f orm stigma and again below vein 4 to lower edge of renif orm, then vertically waved ; subbasal and subterminal lines 

 white and denticulate; the latter inangled on both folds; a denticulate white terminal line defining black lunules ; 

 fringe black brown strongly intersected with white; orbicular and reniform stigmata black brown with white 

 annuli ; the former round, the latter constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure so as to be- 

 come almost confluent with orbicular ; hindwing whitish flushed with brownish yellow ; fringe brownish yellow 

 with the tips white. A local species, occurring in S. France, Spain, and Corsica; in Algeria, N. Africa; and in 

 ornaiula. N. Persia and W. Turkestan ; the form found in the last three localities — subsp. ornatula Christ. — has the inner 

 line of forewing more acutely angled inwards in cell and outwards on submedian fold ; the outer line more acutely 

 angled outwards below costa, and less incurved on the folds ; the orbicular stigma oval, touching inner line ; the 

 disjecta, reniform more produced outwards at its extremities; a Spanish form — ab. disjecta ab. nov. (= ab. 1. Hmps.) — 

 shows the orbicular stigma well separated from the reniform, which is still more constricted at middle, less 

 angled inwards along the median vein, and not touched by the outer line. Larva yellowish green spotted with 

 3 r ellowish white; the lines white; feeding on Santolina. 



melacheila. P. melacheila Stgr. Forewing ashy grey speckled with black, with a broad blackish terminal border; 



an oval black-edged stigma at end of cell ; dark basal and extrabasal transverse lines ; the former only reaching 

 the median vein, forming the limit of a dark patch at base of costa; the latter diffuse, oblique outwards to near 

 middle of inner margin ; outer half brown black preceded closely by a faint line which converges with the extra- 

 basal at inner margin ; fringe somewhat mottled ; hindwing light grey, somewhat darker terminally ; fringe white ; 

 underside silvery grey; placed by Stattdinger, temporarily, near obliterata Rmb. Asia Minor. 



obliterata. Ph. obliterata Rmb. (= wimmerii Tr., recta Ev.) (51 k). Forewing white overlaid with reddish brown; 



inner line diffuse, whitish above middle, oblique below ; outer somewhat quadrately bent outwards above and 

 approaching inner below middle; subterminal line white, bent outwards to anal angle; fringe redbrown che- 

 quered with whitish at tips; a dark brown point represents the orbicular, and two brown spots the reniform 

 cretacea. stigma; hindwing whitish overlaid with reddish brown; the Japanese form, cretacea Btlr. is greyer, the forewing 

 having an oblique dark band below middle preceding the outer line. In Europe this species is found only in the 

 South, in Italy, Corsica, the Tyrol, Hungary, the Balkans, and S. Russia; in Asia in Persia, Turkestan, Siberia, 

 China, Corea, and Japan. Larva green, with the dorsal line dark and the lateral lines white ; feeding on Artemisia. 



21. Genus: Ozarba Walk. 



Tongue present; frons smooth; palpi upcurved in front of face, the second segment thickly scaled, 

 the third slender; antennae of $ ciliated; thorax and abdomen smooth; forewing with veins 8, 9, 10 stalked; 

 vein 5 of hindwing from well above 4. A large genus of small dull-coloured insects, most numerous in tropical 

 countries. Type Ozarba punctigera Walk. 



punctigera. 0. punctigera Walk. (51 k). Forewing purplish fuscous, beyond the inner line suffused with brighter 



brown; inner line erect, double, outwardly dark-shaded; in the basal area two shorter double dark lines; outer 

 line pale with a dark fine line down its centre, sharply angled below costa, then inwardly oblique; a pale ir- 

 regular waved submarginal line; reniform with its lower half surrounded by black specks; hindwing uniform 

 fuscous. An Indo-m'alayan species' reaching Australia, occurring in China, Japan, Yesso, Kiushiu, and Corea; 

 also found across the Indian frontier in Kashmir. 



chinetisk. 0. chinensis Leech Forewing pale olive brown, darker at base and pinkish-tinged beyond middle; 



an oblique blackish line from inner margin near base to median nervure ; an oblique blackish band from before 

 middle of inner margin to costa before apex; submarginal shade dusky, attenuated towards costa; stigmata 

 outlined with ground colour, the reniform double; hindwing fuscous. Ship-y-shan, Central China. The <$ has 

 the hindtibia fringed with long hair. 



sancta. 0. sancta Stgr. (51 n). Forewing whitish washed with rufous ochreous and diisted with dark brown; 



inner and outer lines double, brown filled in with whitish, somewhat swollen at costa; the inner oblique and 

 sinuous; the outer oblique to vein 6, indented beyond cell, curved and denticulate below middle; subterminal 

 white preceded by fuscous shading forming a diffused patch on costal area ; terminal black lunules edged Avith 

 white; median shade blackish, bent at middle; orbicular stigma round, the annulus white defined by brown, 

 followed on median vein by a small white dot; reniform narrow, oblique, the white annulus partly edged with 

 black; hindwing golden yellow, the apical area with darker scaling; a fine waved black terminal line; fringe 



