. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 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.âGrammosc
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 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.âGrammoscelis 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
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