132 THE LEPIDOPTEEA OF CEYLON. 



OTHREIS CAJETA (Plate 162, Fig. 1, \a,S ? ). 

 PhalcBna Noctua Cajeta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 48, pi. 30, fig. a b, J, c ? (1779). 

 Corycia Cajeta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 265 (1818-25), 

 Ophideres Cajeta, Giieuee, Noct. iii. p. 112, <? ?. 



Othreis Cajeta, Moore, Traus. Zool. Soo. xi. p. 67, pi. 13, fig. 2, 2a,$ ? (1881). 

 Ophideres multiscripta, Walker, Catal. Lep. llet. B. M. xiii. p. 1226 (1857), ? . 



Male : forewing dark umber-browu, suffused with greyish fawn colour externallj, 

 being greyest at the posterior angle ; a few grey strigte disposed on the basal and 

 costal areas, and a basal and subapical cluster of olive-green or pale ochreous, and 

 dark brown scales ; veins alternately pale and black-speckled ; an equidistant curved 

 antemedial and a postmedial transverse blackish duplex line, which is prominent and 

 pale centred in some specimens, indistinct in others ; a small pale-circled blackish 

 orbicular spot, and pale-bordered dark elongated lunular reniform mark : hindwing 

 orange-yellow ; with a black apical marginal angular-bordered band, and yellow cilial 

 spots, a short black curved discal band. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above brown ; 

 legs with white spots. Female : forewing brownish greyish -ochreous or fawn-colour, 

 numerously covered with black pale-grey bordered speckled strigte, which are thickly 

 disposed along the costa, and form irregular fascise across the disc ; posterior angle 

 broadly greyish, above which is a small dentate whitish spot ; reniform mark pro- 

 minent, triangularly angled, and black lined ; a minute black pale-encircled orbicular 

 spot: hindwing and body as in male. 



Expanse 3 to 3| inches. 



OTHREIS ANCILLA (Plate 161, Fig. 3, 3a, h, $ q , larva). 



Phalmna Noctua Ancilla, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 84, pi. 149, fig. f (1779), ?. 



Ophideres Ancilla, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 114,?; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1224, J . 



Othreis Ancilla, Moore, Trans. Zool. Soc. xi. p. 67, pi. 12, fig. 2, 2a, pi. 13, fig. 3, 3a (1881), $ ?. 



Phalmna strigata, Donovan, Ins. India, pi. 54 (1800), ?. 



Othreis Hommna, Hiibner, Veiz. bek. Scbmett. p. 264 (1818-25). 



Ophideres hilineosa. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1227 (1857), $ . 



Male: forewing deep ferruginous-brown, with numerous darker brown strigs; 

 crossed by indistinct greenish-brown fascia3, which are bordered with glaucous-grey 

 or purj^le ; an inwardly-oblique subbasal, and a postmedial transverse black waved 

 line, and a paler basal and medial less defined line ; an indistinct orbicular punctiform 

 spot, and a brown-bordered reniform mark : hindwing orange-yellow ; marginal black 

 band attenuated hindward, cilial spots yellow; a short bilobed black discal band. 

 Thorax, head, palpi, fore and middle legs deep ferruginous-brown; abdomen and 

 hind legs orange-yellow. Female : forewing dark purple-brown, the strigte darker, 

 the transverse fasciee glaucescent-purple, the postmedial transverse oblique black line 

 sinuous hindward; a broad longitudinal irregular angular-bordered green band 



