502 



The variety discalis has the whole of the dark patch between the 

 white band and the postmedial line suffused with purplish white. 



Hab. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma : Audainaus. Exp. 

 63 millim. 



2511. Ophiusa amygdalis, Moore, Lev. Ceyl. iii. p. 551, pi. 214, fig. 3; 



C. 8f S. no. 2660. 



Differs from maturescens (p. 499) in being suffused with lilacine 

 grey. Fore wing with the antemedial line bent outwards below the 

 cell ; the apical streak with its outer edge indented ; three while 

 specks on the costa before apex. 



Hob. Sikhim; Nilgiris; Travancore; Ceylon. #.*;>. 52 rnillim. 



2512. Ophiusa onelia, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 256; C. $ S. no. 2637; 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 170, figs. 1, 1 b (larva). 

 Naxia lageos, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 256. 

 Ophiusa umbrosa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 9C58. 

 Ophiusa luteipalpis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 968; C. # S. no. 2671. 

 Ophiusa obimibrata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 969. 



Dark grey-brown with a purplish tinge ; the head and collar 

 usually fulvous. Fore wing suffused with brown ; subbasal, ante- 

 and postmedial indistinct waved lines and antemedial and medial 

 ill-defined grey bands ; a grey apical patch with whitish edges, and 

 a sinuous dark line from it to inner margin ; an indistinct dentate 

 submarginal line ; the margin grey. Hind wing with traces of 

 medial and submarginal pale lines near inner margin ; the outer 

 margin grey. 



Larva with the 1st two pairs of abdominal prolegs rudimentary ; 

 greyish white above ; olive-grey below, with black spots in some- 

 what linear series on each somite ; a reddish lateral spot on 4th 

 somite. Pupa efflorescent. Food-plant, Phyllanthus. 



Hob. China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Penang ; 

 Java. Exp. 44-46 millim. 



B. The hind wing orange. 



2513. Ophiusa COronata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 596; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 167, fig. 1, and pi. 166, fig. 5 (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 2595. 

 Noctua leonina, Fabr. t. c. p. 596. 

 Noctua ancilla, Fabr. Ent. Sysl. iii, 2, p. 17. 

 Corycia magica, Hiibn. Zutr. iii, p. 32, figs. 535, 536. 



Head and thorax pale reddish brown ; abdomen orange, the 

 segments fringed with black. Fore wing irrorated with dark 

 specks ; a short subbasal dark line ; an outwardly-oblique, slightly 

 sinuous, antemedial line ; the orbicular small, round, and grey ; the 

 reniform large and chocolate, ringed with grey or broken up into 

 grey or chocolate grey-ringed spots ; a slightly inwardly-oblique 

 postmedial line ; a pale submarginal line, slightly bent below the 

 costa. Hind wing orange, with broad medial and submarginal 

 fuscous black- bands not reaching inner margin, the latter widest 



