OPHIUSA. 495 



Larva bluish grey speckled with blue-black ; lateral and sub- 

 lateral yellowish bands with intervening blue-grey line ; a dorsal 

 black stripe bordered by reddish-white spots between 4th and 5th 

 somites ; a pair of dorsal red tubercles on anal somite ; spiracles 

 and fore legs red ; the head black-striped. 



Hob. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian regions. Exp. GO- 

 TO millim. 



2484. Ophiusa serva, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 593 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl iii, 



pi. 169, figs. 4, 4 a, b ; C. $ 8. no. 2628. 

 Noctua vulpma, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, 2, p. 39. 

 Noctua mercatoria, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, p. 62. 

 Achgea ino, Hubn. Verz. p. 269. 

 Achsea fasciculipes, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1400. 

 Achsea nubifera, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 609, pi. 59, fig. 9 ; 



C. 8? S. no. 2626. 



Differs from melicerte in being usually more uniform pale 

 brick-red, with the markings of the fore wing indistinct ; the ante- 

 medial, medial, and postmedial lines are waved and often double. 

 Hind wing with the medial band less prominent ; the marginal 

 spots smaller, that at anal angle obsolescent. 



The form fasciculipes is large and dark. 



Hob. Peninsular India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Borneo ; Java; Celebes; 

 New Hebrides ; Australia. Exp. 50-76 millim. 



2485. Ophiusa illibata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 592 ; C. fy S. no. 2622. 

 Hemeroblemma peropaca, Hiibn. Zutr. iii, p. 33, figs. 541, 542. 

 Ophisma laetabilis, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 241. 



Ophisma contenta, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1381 ; C. 8f S. no. 2614. 



Pale rufous. Fore wing with short subbasal and oblique ante- 

 medial dark lines on pale reddish bands ; the reniform large with 

 a dark line in it ; three indistinct waved postmedial lines on pale 

 reddish suffusion and one submarginal line ; a large semicircular 

 patch with white edges at apex. Abdomen and hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the latter with indistinct pale medial line ; the margin grey 

 except at apex. 



Hab. China; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. Exp. 

 72 millim. 



2486. Ophiusa circumsignata, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 255; C. # S. 



no. 2634. 



Pale ochreous brown. Pore wing with waved subbasal line; 

 an antemedial line angled in the cell; traces of some whitish 

 medial suffusion ; a dark speck at end of cell ; two curved and 

 waved postmedial lines ; an apical brown patch with ochreous 

 edges, three specks on the costa and some whitish suffusion on it ; 

 the margin whitish with a series of marginal black specks. Hind 

 wing with indistinct curved medial line and black spot at anal 

 angle ; the margin whitish with a series of black specks. 



Hab. Sylhet. Exp. 50 millim. 



