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above, and below, and parallel to posterior half of the fold, respectively, 
ending on the dorsum ; some cloudy fuscous-greyish irroration mixed with 
fuscous-blackish scales in the middle of the cell, and a faint indication 
of a transverse cloudy greyish band across the central half of the disc at 
3 / 4 , irregularly mixed with a few- dark scales; a row of ill-defined streaks 
between the veins along the termen, becoming indistinct towards the 
tornus; irregular grey irroration mixed with fuscous-black scales along 
the dorsum from beyond the base. Cilia creamy with light tawmy tips, 
and with a pale tawny interrupted antemedian fascia becoming narrower, 
continuous, and darker, towards the apex, around the apex forming a 
narrow, fuscous-black antemedian line; costal cilia and tufts fuscous- 
tawny, tinged olive. Hind wing glossy fuscous, becoming creamy at the 
base, and towards the costa anteriorly; cilia pale fuscous-grey, a black 
subbasal line around the apex. 
Ovipositor moderate. Genital ventrite strongly sclerotized, with a 
deeply excavate lower edge, and a median process, on the top of which 
opens a split-like, narrow ostium. Ductus bursae simple. Bursa copulatrix 
elongate. Signum, a rounded plate with strong inequal dentations. (Slide 
no. 1025 D, type.) 
Bernhard Camp B, 100 m, April 10, 1938. One specimen. Nearest to 
T. malthacodes Meyeick. 
ORNEODIDAE 
Key to the genera of the Orneodidae 
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Hind wing seven-cleft 2 
Hind wing six-cleft 3 
Labial palpus with terminal segment porrect. Fore wing with veins 8 — 10 out 
of 7 Hebdomactis Meyeick 
Labial palpus with terminal segment ascending. Fore wing with veins 8 — 10 
from cell Triscaedecia Hampson 
Fore wing cleft to about middle 4 
Fore wing cleft to 1 / 3 , 1 / 5 or 1 / 6 
Palpus extremely long Microschismus Fletcher 
Palpus rather short Paelia Walker 
Maxillary palpus absent. Fore wing with veins 8 — 10 absent 
Orneodes Latreille 
Maxillary palpus present. Fore wing with veins 8 — 10 out of 7 6 
Hind wing cleft to Vs Hexerelmis Meyrick 
Hind wing cleft to almost 1 / 3 Prymnotomis Meyrick 
Orneodes Latreille, 1802 
Orneodes Latreille, 1802, Hist. Nat. Crust. Ins., vol. 3, p. 418. Precis Charact. 
Ins., p. 148, 1796 (invalid). Meyrick, Gener. Ins. fasc. 108, p. 2, 1910. Rev. Handb., 
p. 692, 1928, Spuler, Schm. Eur., vol. 2, p. 330, 1910. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. 
Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 155, 1929. Pierce, Genit. Brit. Tin., p. 39, pi. 22, 1935. Genit. 
Brit. Pyral., p. 59, pi. 29, 1938. 
