1 64 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



some accidental abrasion. The Indian species and their 

 transformations have been well described and figured by 

 Mr. F. Moore in the " Transactions " of the Zoological Society 

 for 1881. 



GENUS OTHREIS. 



OthreiS) Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264 (1822 ?) ; Moore, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. xi. p. 264 (1881). 

 Corycta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 265 (1822 ?) 



This genus includes several species with brown fore-wings, 

 lined or mottled with darker, and orange-yellow hind-wings, 

 bordered with black on the hind margin, but not to the 

 anal angle. The incisions on the black border are spotted 

 with yellow, and there is a thick black curved mark towards 

 the anal angle. 



OTHREIS SMARAGDIPICTA. 



(Plate CXLL, Fig. 2.) 

 Ophideres smaragdipicta^ Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 



xiii. p. 1229, no. 24 (1857). 



Othreis smaragdipicta, Moore, Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. xi. p. 68 

 (1881). 



This insect is a native of Borneo and the Malay Peninsula. 



" Ferruginous, varied with black. Abdomen luteous. Fore- 

 wings with a purplish tinge, with emerald -green marks along 

 the costa, with an interrupted emerald-green sub-marginal 

 band, and with a brighter green, irregular, angular, whitish- 

 bordered, discal stripe ; reniform spot elongated, narrow in the 

 middle, bordered with black. Hind-wings bright luteous, with 

 a short, broad, curved, black, discal band, and with a broad 

 black border, which is abbreviated and slightly interrupted 

 towards the interior angle. Length of the body, thirteen lines ; 

 of the wings, thirty lines " (Walker). 



