628 AGARISTID^. 



Genus OMPHALOCEPS, nov. 



Type, 0. triangularis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with long 

 uair in front, the 3rd roughly scaled and somewhat porrect ; frons with slight 

 rounded prominence; antennae almost simple, distinctly dilated towards ex- 

 tremity; tibiae fringed with hair on upper side ; the hind tibiae and 1st joint 

 of tarsi in male with very long hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests except on 

 terminal segments, male with lateral protrusible tufts of long hair from base. 

 Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle • 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with vein 2 from towards angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Fore wing with three patches daria. 



B. Fore wing with oblique band from below costa beyond 



middle to above tornus 



168. Omphaloceps daria. (Plate LIY. fig. 18.) 



Agarista daria, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xv. p. 42 (1895). 

 JEgocera triplagiata, Eoths. Nov. Zool. iii. p. 95 (1896). 

 Mgocera triplagiata, var. dispar, Kirby, A. M. N. H. (6) xviii. p. 377, 



pi. xix. f. 1 (1896). 

 Mitrophrys meraca, Karsch, Ent. Nachr. xxiv. p. 332 (1898). 



5 (triplagiata). Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown ; palpi 

 fringed with orange; sides of frons white; tegulee with white points; 

 thorax with dorsal white stripe ; fore tibiae banded with orange. 

 Fore wing black-brown : a silvery-white point below base of costa 

 and antemedial striga above vein 1 ; an oblique triangular ante- 

 medial yellow patch from subcostal nervure to above vein 1 ; a band 

 across end of cell ; a white point in submedian fold just beyond 

 middle ; an oblique postmedial yellow band with waved edges from 

 below costa to below vein 2. Hind wing orange-yellow, with the 

 terminal half black, narrowing somewhat to inner margin ; cilia 

 white at tips. 



Ab. 1. daria. Fore wing with the markings white instead of 

 yellow; hind wing white; a leaden-silvery bar across middle of 

 cell ; a discoidal bar continued obliquely to inner margin, where 

 there is a spot before it and a bar beyond the postmedial band from 

 below costa to vein 5. 



Hab. E. Apeica (Amorge), 2 5 , Lindi, type f $ in Coll. Druce; 

 Zambesia, Loangwa E,., M'pta (Cor^/ncZon), typet S triplagiata in 

 Coll. Rothschild ; Germ. S.W. Africa. Exp. 54-68 millim. 



169. Omphaloceps triangularis. 



Eusemia triangularis, Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Beige, xxxvii. p. 57 (1893) ; id. 



Nov. Lep. pi. xxii. f. 3. 

 Phasis astrapeus, Holl. Psyche, vi. p. 373 (1893). 



Dark chocolate-brown ; palpi at base, extremity of 2nd joint of 

 palpi, sides of frons, and basal joint of antennae whitish ; pectus 

 orange ; legs brown and orange. Fore wing with rather narrow 



