426 NOCTCID.E. 



submedian fold, narrowing at costa and lower extremity, its inner 

 edge angled inwards at lower angle of cell and its outer edge 

 excurved from below costa ; a diffused curved silvery blue sub- 

 terminal line , slightly incurved at discal fold. Hind wing black- 

 brown with broad orange-red post-medial band from below costa to 

 above tornus, narrowing towards costa and tornus ; cilia with a 

 silvery blue gloss. Underside of fore wing black-brown with a 

 cupreous gloss, the basal half of costal area suffused with silvery 

 blue scales, a triangular white patch in middle of cell and bar 

 across end of cell, the postmedial patch as on upperside ; hind wing 

 with the costal and terminal areas suffused with silvery blue 

 scales. 



Hab. U.S.A., Atlantic States, Kansas (Snow), 1 £ ? Texas, Dallas 

 (Boll), 3 d , 1 $ . Exp. 26-30 millim. 



Larva. Head red-brown with four black spots on each lobe. 

 Body slightly enlarged at joint 12, each segment with four purple- 

 brown transverse lines alternating with four pale yellow ones; a 

 pale red dorsal patch on joint 12, containing four tubercles in a 

 square ; cervical shield and anal plate red, spotted with black. 

 Food-plant, Grape (Vitis).—R. G. D. 



Genus 0VI0S. 



Type. 



Ovios, Wlk. iii. p. 753 (1855) capensis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, extending to well beyond 

 frons, tbe 2nd joint fringed with long hair in front, the 3rd moderate; irons 

 with large truncate conical prominence with raised edges ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennae of male bipectinate with short branches, serrate towards base and 

 apex ; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests, the patagia 

 fringed with long rough hair and scales mixed ; tibire fringed with long hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal hairy crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex 

 rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to 

 form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 

 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing with large black discoidal lunule capo/sis. 



B. Hind wing without discoidal lunule septenirionis. 



4899. Ovios capensis. 



Eudryas capensis, Herr.-Schaff. Aussereur. Schmett. ff. 115-116 (1853); 

 Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 40. 



Head and thorax white ; palpi black, the 2nd joint fringed with 

 orange hairs in front and the extremity of 2nd and 3rd joints 

 orange; frons, vertex and back of head with black bars; tegulae 

 with slight black line at base near sides and black band near tips ; 

 patagia and thorax with some black scales, the patagia fringed with 

 long orange hair ; pectus and legs orange, the fore tibiae and the 



