. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. OMOT{PinXA. lo;} fi^. Piitagia n<it dilatetl witli scales at extremity, a'. Fore wing with the inner margin excised towards torniis Eospiiouopteuvx, p. /a Fore wing with the inner margin not excised towards tornus Piiytometea, p. 45'-'. '. Abdomen with ridges of hair on basal segments, but without crests. a^. Eyes small, elliptical Ojiorpiiina, p 403. b*. Eyes lai-ge, round , p. 581 446. Genus OMOEPHINA. Type. O/uorphina, Alph. llor. Soc. Ent. Eos:*, xxvi. p. 452(1892) aarantiaca. Pi'oboscis fidly developed ; pal
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. OMOT{PinXA. lo;} fi^. Piitagia n<it dilatetl witli scales at extremity, a'. Fore wing with the inner margin excised towards torniis Eospiiouopteuvx, p. /a Fore wing with the inner margin not excised towards tornus Piiytometea, p. 45'-'. '. Abdomen with ridges of hair on basal segments, but without crests. a^. Eyes small, elliptical Ojiorpiiina, p 403. b*. Eyes lai-ge, round , p. 581 446. Genus OMOEPHINA. Type. O/uorphina, Alph. llor. Soc. Ent. Eos:*, xxvi. p. 452(1892) aarantiaca. Pi'oboscis fidly developed ; palpi upturned, the 2ncl joint reaching to vertex of head and fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate; froiis smooth, with tuft of hair; eyes rattier small and elliptical, overhung by long cilia; antenna; of male minutely ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair only and with- out crests; tibia; fringed with rather long hair; abdomen dorsally clothed with rough hair at base but without ci-ests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near anglo of cell, (i Irom upper angle, 9 ironi 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the cell about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle; 5 fully developed from just above angle; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 8220. Omorphina aurantiaca. Omorjihincr auranfiaca, Alph. Ilor. Soe. Ent. Ross. xxvi. p. 452 (1892); id. Rom. Mem. ix. p. 41, pi. i. f. 2 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. p:il. p. 220. Omorphina chri/sosi/(/ma, Piing. Iris, xix. p. 223 (1906). Head and thorax rufous ; antennte grey ; palpi grey mixed with brown ; tarsi grey; abdomen dark grey-brown with some rufous hair towards base of dorsum, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface grey. Fore wing rufous slightly tinged with greyish, the postmedial area somewhat paler; an indistinct brown antemedlal. Fig. 103.— Oiiuirphina aiircDiliuca, c? . {. line, incurved
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