74 ME. F. MOOEE ON THE OPUIDERIN^E OF THE INDIAN EEOION. 



with a lateral linear grey streak ; abdomen and legs above orange-yellow, beneath 

 grey. 



Female. Fore wing darker green, with a series of creamy-white spots on the disco- 

 cellular area, another series below the cell, a large patch at the posterior angle, and 

 two small slender spots below the apex, all partially crossed by slender brown strigae. 



Expanse 8 to 3| inches. 



lldh. India {liomhaij, Canara, Nilgiris, BarjiUng, Khasia) ; Burniah {Moulmcin) ; 

 Andamans ; Ceylon. 



" Larva semilooper, cylindrical, elongated, slightly humped on the 4th, 5th, Gth, and 

 11th segments. Legs fourteen, with a rudimentary pair on Gth segment. Colour dusky 

 ])urplisli-brown, blotched with very dark brown, and spotted witli minute dots of cobalt- 

 blue ; on each side of Gth and Gth segments is a large ocellus, the iris bright yellow in 

 front and Vermillion behind, pupil purplish-brown, with a crescent of cobalt-blue, and 

 with a centre which is considerably darker than the rest ; besides these the body is 

 extensively marked with black and yellow patches of different shapes. Changes occupy 

 twenty-six days." {S. N. Ward, U.S. Notes, Canara.) 



Argadesa, n. gen. 

 Ophideres (part), Guenee, Walker. 



Fore wing in male and female with the exterior margin oblique and scalloped 

 throughout its length ; palpi shorter, and the third joint slender. Larva similar in 

 form to that of Othreis. 



Aegadesa MATEEXA. (Plate XII. figs. 4, 4 a, b, c, d, larva and pupa ; Plate XI V. fig. 3, 

 3 a, imago, <? ? .) 



Vhalmna Noct. materna, Linnjeus, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 840 ; Driiry, Ins. ii. p. 24, pi. xiii. f. 4 ; Cramer, 



Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 174. f. B ; iii. pi. 267. f. E. 

 Noctua materna, Fabr. Spec. lus. ii. p. 212; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 137 ; Eut. Syst. iii. 2, p. 16. 

 Bhytia materna, Iliibuer, Yerz. bck. Schmctt. p. 264. 



Triphama 7«a/erM«, Westwood, Nat. Libr. xxxvii. Exotic Moths, p. 201, j)]. xxv. fig. 2. 

 Ophideres materna, Boisduval, Faun. Ent. Madag. Bourb. et Maur. Lep. p. 100; Gucnec, Noct. iii. 



p. 113; AValker, Catal. Lcp. Ilet. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1221. 

 Noctua hybrida, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 593. 



Male. Fore wing greenish-grey, covered witli greenish-brown or purple-brown trans- 

 verse confluent striga; ; a short curved dark brown antemedian costal line and a distinct 

 oblicjue postmedian line ; between the lines are three purple-glossed, plumbeous, longi- 

 tudinal streaks, the upper short and near the costa, the next from lower angle of the 

 cell, the third below the cell ; reniform mark trilobed, purple-black ; a narrow grey 

 streak curving below the apex and spreading irregularly to the posterior angle, lliud 



