. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. OZAEBA. 395 5598. Ozarba excisa. Omrha excisa, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B,M. viii. p. 7G, pi. 145. f. 21 (1891) ; id. Moths Ind. ii- p. ('.32. 5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with rufous ; palpi black in front, pink behind ; tegulse â ndth some bJack at base ; fore tibiae and tarsi black ringed with pink ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous. Fore wiug grey tinged in parts with rufous especially on medial and terminal areas and irrorated with fuscous, the costal edge pink; aubbasal line hardly traceable, double, waved, from costa to
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. OZAEBA. 395 5598. Ozarba excisa. Omrha excisa, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B,M. viii. p. 7G, pi. 145. f. 21 (1891) ; id. Moths Ind. ii- p. ('.32. 5 . Head and thorax grey mixed with rufous ; palpi black in front, pink behind ; tegulse â ndth some bJack at base ; fore tibiae and tarsi black ringed with pink ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous. Fore wiug grey tinged in parts with rufous especially on medial and terminal areas and irrorated with fuscous, the costal edge pink; aubbasal line hardly traceable, double, waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line indistinct, double, minutely waved, oblique from costa to below the cell; orbicular a whitish point with a few black scales round it, the reniform an oblique black bar with some ochreous scales on its outer edge ; medial line slight, oblique to median nervure, then sinuous ; postmedial line indistinctly double, minutely waved, oblique from costa to vein 6 and incurved below vein 4, the costa beyond it with alternating black and pinkish points ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish, a black spot before it below costa, then rather punctiform and defined on inner side by black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia pale rufous with some fuscous at base and tips. Underside of fore wing fuscous, the costa pinkish, the veins of terminal area streaked with white; hind Aving whiiish thickly irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot, rather diffused postmedial and subterminal lines, the latter with whitish spots beyond it, a fine waved black terminal line. Hab. Madras, Nilgiris {Lindsaij), 1 $ type. Exi^. 28 millim. Sect. II. Antennje of male minutely ciliated. A. Hind tibise of male fringed on both sides with long hair. 5599. Ozarba chinensis. Metachrostis chinensis, Leech, Trans. Eut. Soc. 1900, p. 156. Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish mixed with fuscous brown, the lower part of frons, pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white ; antennae
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