64 ME. F. MOOEE ON THE OPHIDERIN^ OF THE INDIAN EE&ION. 



Genus Otheeis, Hiibner. 



Othreis, Hubner, Verz. bck. Sclimett. p. 264 (1816). 

 Corycia, Hubner, ib. j). 2G5. 

 Ophideres (part), Giicuce, Walker. 



Fore wing elongated ; costa nearly straiglit, slightly arched near the end, apex acute ; 

 exterior margin oblique and slightly convex hindward, even in the male, scalloped in 

 the female ; posterior margin short, with a fringed lobe near base, and slight excava- 

 tion beyond ; costal vein extending to near apex ; first and second branches of subcostal 

 at equal distances before end of cell, thiid starting from the second at a short distance 

 beyond the cell and forked near the apex, fifth anastomosed to third near its juncture 

 with the second, sixth from angle below end of the cell ; discocellular very slender, 

 recurved ; two upper median branches from angles above lower end of the cell, third 

 from its end, and fourth at one third ; submedian bent near the base. Hind wing broad, 

 anterior margin extending beyond angle of fore wing ; exterior margin convex, with a 

 slight subanal angle, abdominal margin sliort ; costal vein recurved, extending to apex; 

 subcostal with two branches from end of the cell ; discocellular very slender, deeply 

 concave ; upper median branches from pointed angles at end of the cell, lower conti- 

 guous ; three submedians. Body robust, densely clothed above ; fore femora and tibige 

 thickly pilose beneath, the latter furnished beneath with an elongated, pouched, glan- 

 dular spur ; middle and hind legs less pilose, with spurred tibiae and spined tarsi ; palpi 

 large, long, ascending, second joint clothed with short adpressed hairy scales, third 

 joint slender, long, and with a slight hairy tuft above. Antennaj filiform, long, thick- 

 ened towards the base. 



Larva semilooped, cylindrical, sparsely covered with minute hairs ; with sixteen feet, 

 but the first pair of vcntrals rudimentary ; eleventh segment thickened at the dorsal 

 extremity and surrounded by a tubercular spot. When at rest holds the head uji and 

 also the last segments ; frequently curling the anterior segments up in fi'ont. Changes 

 to pupa in a canopy of growing leaves fixed together and lined witli a net-like web ; 

 pujia fastened by the tail. 



//Otheeis fullonica. (Plate XII. figs. 1, la, larva and pupa; Plate XIII. figs. 1, 1 a, 

 imago, c? ? .) 



Phaloena B.fuUonica, Linn. Syst. Nat. il. p .812 (1767) ; Clerck, Icones, pi. xlviii. figs. l-J. (Seba, 



Ins. t. 42. f. 13, 14?). 

 Ophideres fullonica, Giien. Noct. iii. p. Ill; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1222. 

 Noctua dioscoreee, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 593, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 212, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 137, Eut. Syst. 



iii. 2, 16, 26, ? . 

 Phal. N. pomona, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 1. pi. 77. f. C, ? . 

 Othreis poifiona, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264. 

 Ophideres cajeta, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1223 (nee Cramer). 



