93 >'0CTrTD.15. 



costa, then oblique, a minute black spot before it above inner margin, 

 and a sinuous brown shade beyond it ; reniforni defined by brown, 

 with brown bar in centre and rather bilid black-brown mark beyond 

 it before the postmedial line, which is brown slighth' defined on 

 outer side by whitish, bent outwards below costa, at vein 6 bent 

 inwards and angled inwards at discal fold, nearly straight to just 

 al)ove vein 2, then curved upwards to lower edge of reniform and 

 dov\Ti to submedian fold, then again excurved ; an indistinct i)ale 

 dentate subterminal line slightly defined on each side by brown and 

 with some black-brown before it on costal area ; the tenninal area 

 with some brown suffusion except towards tornus ; a fine waved 

 brown terminal line ; cilia whitish tinged with broA\'n. Hind wing 

 grey-white suffused with brown ; a rather diff'used slightly sinuous 

 dark postmedial line ; a brown subterminal shade with the slightly 

 waved whitish subterminal line on it; some dark brown at middle of 

 termen ; cilia whitish tinged with red-bro^vn ; the underside with 

 the basal half whitish tinged with rafous, a dark discoidal lumile. 



5 . Fore wing without the blackish patch beyond the reniform, 

 the postmedial line less angled inwards at discal fold, then sinuous 

 to vein 2, a brown shade before the subterminal Ime but without 

 blackish towards costa. 



Ab. 1. nigrisigna. Fore wing with the antemedial line slightly 

 sinuous. 



Hah. Japak, Satsuma (Leech), 1 S tvpe nign'signn, Kiushiu, 

 1 $ ; N. China, Pekin (B. Fletcher), 1 § ; Cextr. Chixa, 

 Shanghai {Fryer), 1 $, Chekiang (Fn/er), 1 $; Formosa, 

 Tiikow (Hobson), 1 J , 3 $ type. i:.r^j. 32-40 millini. 



864. Mods mutuaria. 



Remiqia muhtaria, Wlk. xiv. 1506 (1858), 2. 



Ophi'usa ji(dica7u% Wlk. xv. 1831 (1858) c^ . 



liemigia torpida, Wlk. xxxiii. 1013 (1865). 



Grammodes insuha, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. iv. p. 173 (I860). 



Ophiusa 7iigrimacula, Mab. Anu. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) ix. p. 347 (1870). 



6 . Head and thorax ]iurplish grey mixed with brown ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with brown, the ventral surface whitisli irrorated witli 

 brown. Fore wing purplish grey tinged with brown and thickly 

 irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal line slight, bi-own defined on 

 outer side by grey, curved, from costii to submedian fold ; ante- 

 medial line chocolate-brown defined on inner side by grey, very 

 slightly excurved below costa, then slightly obli(|ue, a black point 

 before it above inner margin ; reniform large, defined at sides by 

 brown and with bifid black mark beyond it before the postmedial 

 line, which is brown, bent outwards below costa, bent inwards at 

 vein G and angled inwards at discal fold, then obliquely curved to 

 submedian fold, then curved upwards to lower edge of reniform and 

 down to submedian fold, then again excur\'ed ; an indistinct dentate 

 grey subterminal line with black spots before it, above and below 

 vein 7, then defined on inner side by a slight dark shade ; cilia 



