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orange, with a black centre, and the reniform stigma is very 

 large, constricted in the middle, and broader below than 

 above. A white black-bordered line runs obliquely from the 

 tip to the middle of the wing ; and below it, the marginal area 

 is broadly yellowish-grey. The hind-wings and abdomen are 

 blue-black, the tip of the former with a whitish mark; and 

 near the anal angle is a very large rose-coloured spot, contain- 

 ing a double, and rather irregular, white spot. 



FAMILY LAGOPTERID^E. 



This Family, which corresponds to the Ophiusida. of Guene*e, 

 originally included some genera with long wings and abdomen, 

 which have some resemblance to the Sphingidcz or Notodontidcz, 

 to which last family some of them (such as CHnodes, Herrich' 

 Schaffer) probably belong. Otherwise, the family is very compact, 

 and includes a large number of species with rather short and 

 broad wings, the fore-wings having the costa arched, and the tip 

 rather pointed, and the four sub-median nervules of the hind- 

 wings of equal thickness, and rising almost at the same point. 

 The fore-wings are generally brown, grey, reddish, or yellowish, 

 and the hind-wings are often marked with white or bluish-white, 

 but are sometimes yellow. 



The larvae are smooth and slender, with the first pairs of 

 pro-legs more or less imperfectly developed. They feed openly 

 on plants, and the pupae are enclosed in cocoons, and are not 

 subterranean. 



GENUS LAGOPTERA. 



Lagoptera, Guenee, Spec. Ge*n. Lepid. Noct. iii. p. 223 (1852); 



Walker, List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 1350 (1858); 



Hampson, Faun. Brit. Ind. Moths, ii. p. 505 (1895). 



Lagoptcra was employed by Guenee to include several 



Indian species, but has now been restricted by Sir George 



