. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 882 *4042. Omphaletis plinthina. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 21.) Caradrina pliufltina, Turner, ined. 5. Head and thorax bright rufous slightly mixed with black; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous brown. Pore wing bright fiery rufous irrorated with black ; a w^aved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a strong w'aved black ante- medial line ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by black, the former round ; an indistinct waved medial shade; postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, e
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 882 *4042. Omphaletis plinthina. (Plate CXXXI. fig. 21.) Caradrina pliufltina, Turner, ined. 5. Head and thorax bright rufous slightly mixed with black; tarsi banded with black; abdomen ochreous brown. Pore wing bright fiery rufous irrorated with black ; a w^aved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a strong w'aved black ante- medial line ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by black, the former round ; an indistinct waved medial shade; postmedial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; an indistinct diffused somewhat dentate subterminal line; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown; the underside with the apical area siiflPused with brown. Hah. W. Australia, lloebourne, type f 5 in Coll. Turner. E,cp. 36 millim. B. Frons with pointed process in middle of prominence ; bind wing with vein 5 from below middle of discocellulars. 4043. Omphaletis ethiopica, n. sp. $ . Head and thorax red-brown mixed with ochreous and some fuscous ; palpi whitish, blackish tow ards tips : fore and mid tibia? banded witli blackish, the tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen ochreous mixed with brown, the ventral surface Fig. 101.— Oinphalcfta ethiopica, (^. I. Fore wing red-brown suffused in parts with bright rufous and slightly irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by a sliglit black striga from costa; antemedial line black, waved, slightly oblique, a slight black streak from it to postmedial line in sub- median fold ; orbicular small, round, defined bj' black; reniform defined on inner side bj' a black bar, faintly defined on outer; postmedial black defined by whititih on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by slight dentate black marks angle
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