68 ME. F. MOORE OX THE OPHIDERINiE OF THE INDIAN EEGION. 



Male. Fore wing deep ferruginous-brown, with numerous darker brown strigEE ; 

 crossed by indistinct greenish-brown fascije, which are bordered with glaucous-grey or 

 purple ; a subbasal, an antemedian, and a postmedian transverse oblique lilack line ; a 

 brown-bordered reniforni mark. Hind wing orange-yellow ; marginal black band atte- 

 nuated hindward, cilial spots yellow ; a short black bilobed discal band. Thorax, head, 

 palpi, fore and middle legs deep ferruginous-brown ; abdomen and hind legs orange- 

 yellow. 



Female. Fore wing dark purple-brown, strigae darker, transverse fasciae glaucous- 

 purple, postmedian transverse oblique black line sinuous hindward, a broad longitudinal 

 irregular green band extending below the cell from near base to beyond postmedian 

 line ; reniform mark partly green. Other parts as in male. 



Expanse 2\ to 3 inches. 



Hah. India {Allahabad, Bombay, Canara, Nilgiris, Darjiliiig) ; Ceylon. 



" Larva half-looper ; sixteen legs, the first ventral pair being so slightly developed as 

 to be useless for the purpose of progression; cylindrical, the 11th segment raised, and 

 the apex surmounted by a single blunt red tubercle raised above the skin, behind which 

 the body slopes abruptly down towards the anal legs ; spiracles oval and black. General 

 colour dusky purplish-brown, dotted with numerous minute cobalt-blue spots regularly 

 arranged, and witli large yellow oval patches on the 4th, 5th, and 6th segments, those 

 on the sides of the 5th and 6th being in the shape of ocelli, the iris yellow, pupil azure 

 blue, surrounded by black; the 9th and 10th segments also patched witli yellow irre- 

 gularly more or less. Changes to pupa beneath a canopy of living leaves fastened 

 lirmly together and thinly lined with a bed of silk ; pupa fastened by the tail ; of an 

 orange-colour, beautifully burnished and rough like shagreen ; the lower part of the 

 thorax is much compressed, in fact quite sharp. Found during June, July, and August 

 and sparingly in October and November below the Ghats, and in July and August above 

 the Ghats." (*S'. iV". Ward, i¥<b'. Kates.) 



Has been reared by Dr. Thwaites, in Ceylon, from larva feeding on Menispermum ; 

 Mr. S. N. "Ward reared the larva, in Canara, upon Cocculus villosus. 



Othreis smaragdipicta. 

 Ophideres smarar/dipicta, 'Wa.lker, Cat. Lep. Het. Brit. Mu.s. xiii. p. 1229 (1857), $ . 



Female. Fore wing deep ferruginous-brown, with a purplish tinge, varied with black 

 striga?, which are darkest and thickly confluent on tlie costa and disk ; an irregular- 

 shaped longitudinal bright green band extending from the base below the cell, its broad 

 basal centre being brown ; some green strigic along the costa, and a thick cluster below 

 the apex and along exterior border. Hind wing orange-yellow, marginal black band 

 broad, extending paler along the costa and suffusing the base ; a short black bilobed 



