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extending below the cell from near the base to beyond the postmedial line ; reniform 

 mark partly green : hindwing and body as in male. 



Expanse 25- to 3 inches. 



Larva half looped ; with sixteen legs, the first middle pair being so slightly 

 developed as to be useless for progression; the twelfth segment raised and dorsally 

 surmounted by a single blunt red tubercle raised above the skin, behind which the 

 body slopes abruptly down towards the anal legs ; spiracles oval and black. General 

 colour dusky purplish-brown, dotted with numerous minute cobalt-blue spots, 

 regulai'ly arranged, and with large yellow oval patches on the fourth, fifth, and sixth 

 segments, those on the sides of the fifth and sixth being in the shape of ocelli, of 

 which the iris is yellow, and the pupil azure-blue surrounded by black ; the ninth 

 and tenth segments also more or less irregularly patched with yellow. Pupa beneath 

 a canopy of living leaves fastened firmly together and thinly lined with a bed of silk ; 

 pupa fastened by the tail, of an orange colour, burnished and roughened like shagreen. 



" Feeds on Menispermum." [Dr. Thwaites.) 



Genus ARGADESA. 



Argadesa, Moore, Traus. Zool. Soc. xi. p. 74 (1881). 

 Ophideres (part), Gueuee; Walker. 



Forewing in both sexes with the exterior margin oblique aud scalloped throughout 

 its length. Palpi shorter, and more slender. 



ARGADESA MATEENA (Pl.\te 161, Fig. 2, i ). 



PhalcEna Noctua materna, Linnaeus, Sjst. Nat. ii. p. 840 (1767); Driirj, las. ii. p. 24, pi, 13, fig. 4; 



Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 174, fig. b, ill. pi. 267, fig. e. 

 Noctua materna, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 212; Eut. Syst. iii. 2, p. 16. 

 Rhytia materna, Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264. 



Triphaena materna, WestwooJ, Nat. Libr. Exot. Moths, p. 201, pi. 25, fig. 2. 

 Ophideres materna, Boisdiival, Faun. Eut. Madag. Bourb. et Maur. Lep. p. 100; Gueuee, Noel. iii. p. 



113; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1221. 

 Argadesa materna, Moore, Traus. Zool. Soc. xi. p. 74, pi. 12, fig. 4, 4a, pi. 14, fig. 3, Za, (^ J. 

 Noctua hyhrida, Fabricius, Syst. Eat. p. 593 (1775). 



Male : forewing greenish-grey, nuuierously covered with greenisli-brown or 

 purple-brown transverse confluent strigte; with a short curved dark brown ante- 

 medial costal line and a distinct oblique postmedial line; between the lines are three 

 broad purple-glossed plumbeous longitudinal streaks, the upper streak short and 

 near the costa, the next from lower angle of the cell, the third below the cell ; 

 renifom mark trilobed, jDurple-black ; a narrow grey streak curving below the apex 

 and spreading irregularly to the posterior angle : hindwing orange-yellow, with a 

 narrow black marginal baud and prominent white cilia! spots; a small single black 



