164 Lloyd's natural history. 



some accidental abrasion. The Indian species and their 

 transformations have been well described and figured by 

 Mr. F. Moore in the " Transactions " of the Zoological Society 

 for 1881. 



GENUS OTHREIS. 



Othreis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264 (1822 ?) ; Moore, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. xi, p. 264 (1881). 

 Corycia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 265 (1822 ?) 



This genus includes several species with brown fore-wings, 

 lined or mottled with darker, and orange-yellow hind-wings, 

 bordered with black on the hind margin, but not to the 

 anal angle. The incisions on the black border are spotted 

 with yellow, and there is a thick black curved mark towards 

 the anal angle. 



OTHREIS SMARAGDIPICTA. 



{Plate CXLL, Fig. 2.) 



Opht'deres smaragdipicta, Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 



xiii. p. 1229, no. 24 (1857). 

 Othreis smaragdipicta, Moore, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. xi. p. 68 

 (1881). 

 This insect is a native of Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. 

 •' Ferruginous, varied with black. Abdomen luteous. Fore- 

 wings with a purplish tinge, with emerald-green marks along 

 the costa, with an interrupted emerald-green sub-marginal 

 band, and with a brighter green, irregular, angular, whitish- 

 bordered, discal stripe ; reniform spot elongated, narrow in the 

 middle, bordered with black. Hind-wings bright luteous, with 

 a short, broad, curved, black, discal band, and with a broad 

 black border, which is abbreviated and slightly interrupted 

 towards the interior angle. Length of the body, thirteen lines ; 

 of the wings, thirty lines " {y\,^alker). 



