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PURBIA DISCREPANS. (Plate XIV. fig. 1, (^ .) 

 Ophideres t^jscre/aaws, Walker, Catal. Lcp. Hct. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 3227 (1857), cj . 

 Ophideres archon, Felder, Reise der Novara, Lcp. pi. csiii. f. 3 (1873-1), ? . 



Male. Fore wing pale purplish-brown or fawn-coloui', with a few black speckles 

 along the costa and on the veins ; crossed by three very indistinct and incomplete nar- 

 row brown bands, the outer sinuously recurved and bordered externally by clusters of 

 greenish scales ; an indistinct greenish subbasal spot and a green-speckled reniform 

 mark. Hind Aving orange-yellow, with broad black apical marginal band, the row of 

 cilial spots and apical angle being white ; a short broad curved black discal band. 

 Thorax, head, palpi, and legs purplish brown ; abdomen orange-yellow. 



Female. Differs in having a narrow white reniform mark, and two short linear white 

 spots on middle of the disk. 



Expanse 3 to of inches. 



Ilab. India {Malabar) ; Siam ; Singapore ; Java. 



M^NAS, Hiibner. 

 Matnas, Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 2G-1 (1816). 

 Ophideres (part), Guenee, Walker. 



Fore wing elongated, trigonal; costa slightly arched towards the end, apex acute 

 exterior margin oblique, straight ; posterior margin long, witli a tufted angle near base ; 

 slightly curved to the end. Palpi short, compactly clothed with short scales ; apical; 

 joint small, very short, and conical. Larva similar in form to that of Othreis. 



M^NAS SALAMINIA. (Plate XII. figs. 3, 3 a, ob, larva and pupa ; Plate XIV. fig. 2, 

 imago.) 

 Phalaina Nod. salaminiu, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 117, pi. elxxiv. f. A (1779); Clerck, Icones, 



pi. xlviii. f. 5, 6. 

 Noctua salaminia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 17 (1793). 

 M<enas salaminia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264. 

 Ophideres salaminia, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 115; Walker, Catal. Lcp. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1225. 



Male and Female. Fore wing dark green with golden reflections ; a broad purplish- 

 o-rev costal band extending from near base of hind margin to the apex, and a narrow 

 similar band on exterior border, the costal band with numerous short green and ochre- 

 ous transverse strigje, which are confluent along the costal border, the exterior band 

 with paler purplish-green inner border ; a distinct red line along the discal portion of 

 the lower median vein. Hind wing orange-yellow, with a black apical marginal band 

 and yellow cilial spots, and a short black bilobed discal band. Thorax, head, palpi, 

 and front of fore legs ochreous-green ; abdomen and legs orange-yellow. 



Expanse 3 to 3i inches. 

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