ME. F. MOOEE ON THE OPHIDEEIN^ OF THE INDIAN EEGION. G7 



Otureis cajeta. (Plate XIII. figs. 2,2a, 6 2 .) 



Phalaena Noct. cajeta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 48, pi. xxx. i. KB, ^ ,C, ^ . 



Corycia cajeta, Hiibuer, Verz. bek. ScLmctt. p. 263. 



Ophideres cajeta, Gueiiec, Noct. iii. p. 112, (J ? . 



Ophi deres multi scripta. Walker, Catal. Lcp. Het. Brit. Mus. siii. p. 1220, ? . 



31ale. Fore wing dark umber-brown, suffused with greyish fawn-colour externally, 

 greyest at the posterior angle ; a few grey strigoe disposed on basal and costal areas, and 

 a basal and subapical cluster of green or cream and dark brown scales ; veins alternate 

 pale and black-speckled ; an equidistant curved antemedian and a postmedian transverse 

 blackish double line, prominent and pale-centred in some, indistinct in others ; a small 

 pale-circled dark orbicular spot, and pale-bordered, dark, elongated, lunular, reniform 

 mark. Hind wing orange-yellow ; a black apical marginal band, with row of yellow cilial 

 spots, and a short, black, curved, discal band. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above 

 brown, legs with white spots. 



Female. Fore wing bro\vnish fawn-colour, numerously covered with black, pale-grey- 

 bordered, speckled strigte, which are thickly disposed along the costa, and form irregular 

 fasciae across the disk ; posterior angle broadly grpyish, above which is a small dentate 

 whitish spot; reniform mark prominent, angled hind ward and black-lined ; a minute 

 black, pale-circled, orbicular spot. Hind wing and body as in male. 



Expanse 3 to 3^ inches. 



Hab. S. India {Malabar and Madras) ; Ceylon. 



This species has a limited range, the specimens under examination having Ijeeu 

 either from South India or Ceylon. It is very rare. A single specimen is in the 

 Banksian Cabinet in the British Museum ; but there are none in the General Cabinet. 



" Larva feeds on the Muttee {Terminalia, sp.). Found in September. Makes a sliglit 

 web within a canopy of li^ ing leaves. Pupa plum-colour, with a thick bloom or powder 

 which comes off when touched ; front part smooth, top of thorax rounded ; the tliree 

 first segments of thorax very much humped, the succeeding ones decreasing in size like 

 steps ; extremity blunt and rounded, with several hooked bristles disposed like a bow- 

 string." [S. N. Ward, MS. Notes.) 



Othreis ancilla. (Plate XII. figs. 2, 2a, larva and pupa; Plate XIII. figs. 3, 3« 

 imago J ? .) 



Phalcena Noct. ancilla, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 84, pi. cxlix. f. F (1779), ? . 



Ophideres ancilla, Gueuee, Noct. iii. p. 11 1, ? ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1221, ? . 



PItalana striyatn, Donovan, Ins. lud. pi. liv. (1800), ? . 



Othrei.^ homa'ena, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sehmett. p. 264. 



Ophideres Zi////(eosa, Walker, Catal. Lcp. Ilet. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1227 (1857), J" . 



