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PURBIA DISCEEPANS. (Plate XIV. fig. 1, cT .) 



Ojjhideres discrepans,Vfa\keT, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1227 (1857), cJ . 

 Ophidnres archon, Fekler, Reisc der Novara, Lcp. jil. cxiii. f. 3 (1873-1), ? . 



Male. Fore wing pale purplish-brown or fawn-colour, 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 wing 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. 



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

 spots on middle of the disk. 



Expanse 3 to of inches. 



Hah. India [Malabar) ; Siam ; Singapore ; Java. 



M^NAS, Hiibner. 



Mcenus, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmctt. p. 204 (1816). 

 Op/ildercs (part), Guenee, Walker. 



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

 exterior margin oblique, straight ; posterior margin long, with 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 OtJireis. 



M^iSfAS SALA^NiA. (Plate XII. figs. 3, 3«, oh, larva and pupa ; Plate XIV. fig. 2, 

 imago.) 



Phal(£na Noct. sa/amiiua, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 117, pi. clxxiv. f. A (1779); Clerck, Icones, 



pi. xlviii. f. 5, G. 

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

 Manas salaminia, Iliibuer, Verz. bek. Scluuctt. p. 264-. 

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



Male and Female. Fore whig dark green witli golden reflections; a broad purplish- 

 grey costal band extending from near base of hind margin to the apex, and a nanow 

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

 ous transverse strig«, 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 3J inches. 

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