OPHJUSA.— PASIPEDA.— ClI ALCIOPE. 1 7 1 



Genus OPIIIUSA, GW/t. 

 OriiiLSA FAUATA, 11. sp. (Plate VI. fijj. It.) 



Fore wing dark brown, with a short basal, a recurved outwardly-obliciue duplex 

 subbasal, and a curved discal purplish-lilac slender line, the latter acutely angled towards 

 the apex, near its costal end, and joins a similar daik-boiden d straight line to the a[)ical 

 angle, giving the wing a falcate appearance; the basal area to middle of the wing piir[)lish- 

 lilac, the outer space to the curved discal line being very dark brown ; a very indistinct 

 submaiginal pale sinuous line witli lilac points : hind wing paler brown, the basal and outer 

 area suffused with dull purplish-lilac. 



Expanse 2^ inches. 



llah. Khasia Hills. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



PASIPEDA, u. g. 



Fore wing with the cosfa slightly arched at the base and before the end, apex acute ; 

 exterior margin oblique, convex hiudward ; cell short, less tluui half the wing ; first subcostal 

 emitted at one half before end of the cell, second at one fifth, trifid, the third from below 

 second at one sixth from its base above end of the cell, fourth at one sixth before the apex, 

 fifth from end of the cell and touching third close to its base ; discocellular bent inward at 

 each end, concave in the middle, radials from the angles ; two upper medians from angles 

 obliquely above end of tlie cell, lower at one half before the end ; submedian sliglitly curved 

 downward from the base. Hind wing short, somewhat quadrate ; exterior margin convexly 

 angular in the middle ; cell very short ; costal vein nearly straight, extending to apex ; two 

 subcoslals from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, radial from near its lower end ; two 

 upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one third before the end ; submedian and 

 internal vein slightly recurved. Body stout ; palpi ascending, flattened, squamosa, second 

 joint long, third joint slender, two thirds length of second; legs short, thick; antenna; 

 simple. 



PaSIPKDA I'ALU.MBA. 



Hulodes palumba, Gueuee, Noct. iii. p. 211 (1852). 



Rcmiffia coUiyens, Walker, Catal. Lcp. liet. B. M. pt. xxxiii. p. 1019 (18G5). 



Hab. Java ; Singapore ; Silhet ; Chcrra {Atkhison) ; S. India ; Ceylon. 



Family E U C L T T) II D .E. 

 Genus CHALCIOPE, Uiibn. 



Chalciope, Hiibncr, Ycrz. bek. Schmett. p. 2GS (1818-25). 

 Trigonodes, Guen. Noct. vii. p. 281 (1852). 



CUALCIOrii DISJUSCTA, 11. sp. 



Allied to C. CepMse (Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. 2:^7. fig. C). A much smaller insect: fore 

 r with a lengthened black fusiform lower basal streak and an entirely separated triangular 



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