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recurved submarginal line, and a marginal row of black points; from tlie costa 

 between the two inner lines, and also between the outer lines, tlie ground colour 

 of the wing is clouded with darker brown ; orbicular spot composed of a small 

 rounded brown ring with an ochreous greyish-white centre ; reniform mark large, 

 either entirely black and bordered by an ochreous greyish-white line, or broken up 

 into seven or eight white-lined black spots; sometimes both the orbicular and 

 reniform are obsolescent, or defined only by the brown outer line, in others they 

 both have an olive-grey centre : hindwing dark yellow, with an inner and outer discal 

 broad black band, both directed and tapering towards the anal angle. Thorax, head, 

 palpi and legs above, purplish ferruginous-brown ; tarsi greyish-brown ; abdomen 

 dark yellow, with black dorsal bands. 



Expanse 2| to 3^ inches. 



Adult larva elongated, half-looped ; with sixteen legs, the first middle pair 

 aborted and unfit for walking ; head large ; a pair of short black dorsal tubercles 

 on eleventh and twelfth segments ; colour dull sienna-brown, longitudinally striped 

 with blackish-brown ; a blackish spot on back of ninth segment, and a yellowish- 

 bordered lateral spot on sixth segment ; under surface blackish-brown ; legs testa- 

 ceous-yellow ; head striped with black. Pupa purplish-black. 



"Feeds on Quisqualis indica." 



Genus MINUCIA. 



Ascalapha,* Hiibner, Tentamen, p. 2 (1806). 



Ophiodes,-\ Guenee, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. x. p. 77 (1852); Noct. iii. p. 227; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. 



B. M. xiv. p. 1353. 

 Phoheria (part), Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 267. 

 Pseudophia (part), Lederer, Noct. Eur. p. 200. 

 Ophiusa (Sect. B), Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 93. 



Forewing rather long, costa almost straight, apex angled, exterior margin 

 slightly obhque and scalloped ; cell extending half the leng-th ; first subcostal emitted 

 at one-third before end of the cell, second at one-sixth, trifid, thud from very near 

 base of second, fourth at two-thirds from base of third, fifth from end of the cell and 

 slightly touching third near its base ; discocellular bent in the middle and at each 

 end, radials from upper and lower angles ; middle median from angle close to end of 

 the cell, lower at one-third before the end ; submedian recurved : hindwing longer 

 than broad, exterior margin convex and slightly scalloped ; cell extending one-third 

 the length ; two subcostals from end of the cell ; discocellular concave, obhque 

 posteriorly, radial from near the lower end ; two upper medians from end of the 



* Used by Fabricius in 1776 for a genus of Neuroptera. 

 t Used by Wagler in 1828 for a genus of Reptiles. 



