OSSONOBA. ARTHISMA. 



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Genus OSSONOBA. 

 Ossonoba, Wlh. Cat. xxxv, p. 1966 (1866). 



Type, 0. torpida, Wlk. 



Range. Sikhitn ; Burma. 



Palpi nearly naked, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 

 3rd long. Antennae of male bipectinated to the apex, the branches 

 short ; thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, the latter very long 

 and with slight lateral and anal tufts. Tibiae hairy ; mid tarsi 

 with tuft on 2nd joint ; hind tarsi with tuft on 1st joint and large 

 tuft on 2nd joint. Fore wing long and narrow ; the costa arched 

 towards apex ; the outer margin obliquely curved, with the cilia 

 crenulate ; the inner margin lobed near base. 



2312. Ossonoba torpida, Wlh. Cat. xxxv, p. 1966 ; Butl. III. Het. vi, 

 pi. 106, fig. 8 ; C.$S. no. 2253. 



3 . Purplish red-brown. Pore wing with erect antemedial pale 

 line ; a minute white speck in cell ; traces of a medial angulated 

 line ; a pale postmedial line, very highly angled below costa, and 

 with some dark blotches beyond its lower half ; an indistinct apical 



Fig. 228. — Ossonoba torpida, <$ . £. 



streak ; the veins paler towards outer margin. Hind wing paler 

 and redder ; the underside purplish with the inner area pale ; a 

 white speck at end of cell ; diffused ante- and postmedial lines and 

 waved medial line. 



2 . More purplish, and without the dark marks beyond post- 

 medial line. 



Bab. Sikhim ; E. Pegu. Exp. 40 millim. 



Genus ARTHISMA. 

 Artkisma, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 20. 



Type, A. scissuralis, Moore. 



Range. Burma; Singapore. 



Palpi upturned and naked, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head, the 3rd long ; antennae minutely ciliated in male ; thorax 

 and abdomen smoothly scaled ; tibiae naked. Pore wing with the 

 apex acute ; the outer margin angled at vein 4, then oblique and 

 crenulate to outer angle. Hind wing with a deep indentation of 



