504 NOCTU1DJE. 



inner margin ; the orbicular a dark speck ; reniform brown ; an 

 irregularly dentate submargiiial line, with two black subapical 

 lunules on it ; the area beyond it reddish ; a crenulate marginal 

 line. Hind wing orange, with broad submarginal black band not 

 reaching costa or inner margin and sometimes almost obsolete. 



Hob. Europe ; S. Africa ; Madagascar ; throughout India. 

 Exp. 64-80 millim. 



C. Hind wing crimson. 



2517. Ophiusa honesta, Hilbn. Samml. Exot. Schrnett. ii, Index, p. 4, 



pi. 203, figs. 1,2; C. 8f S. no. 2598. 

 Noctua microrheea (?), Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, 2, p. 17. 



Head and thorax reddish chestnut ; the third joint of palpi 

 black ; abdomen crimson. Pore wing reddish chestnut, slightly 

 irrorated with dark scales ; traces of a sinuous aritemedial line 

 with three white specks on it ; reniform grey, the lower part more 

 or less completely filled in with black ; a curved postmedial series 

 of white specks with an indistinct band beyond it angled at vein 6 

 and met by a dark streak from the apex ; a marginal series of 

 specks. Hind wing crimson, with black submarginal medial 

 patch. 



Hab. Philippines ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; 

 Andamans. Exp. 84-104 millim. 



SECT. II. Males with a cleft running the whole length of the 

 mid tibia and containing a mass of flocculent scales. 



2518. Ophiusa fulvotaenia, Guen. Noct, iii, p. 272; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 



iii, pi. 171, fig. 1 ; C. $ S. no. 2669. 



Differs from crameri (p. 501) in being red-brown. Fore wing with 

 the medial band suffused with purplish ; the postmedial line dark 

 throughout, and with an indistinct dentate line beyond it. Hind 

 wing with a medial orange band, wide towards the costa. 



Hob. Japan ; China ; Formosa ; throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma; Sumatra; Java. Exp. 70-80 millim. 



SECT. III. Male with a large tuft of hair on fore femora. 



2519. OpMusa trapezium, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 231 ; C. S. no. 2609. 

 Ophisma cognata, Wtk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 958. 



Head and thorax pale rufous ; abdomen pale fuscous ; the 

 femoral tufts black. Fore wing greenish ochreous irrorated with 

 dark scales ; an outwardly-oblique antemedial dark line ; a dark 

 speck representing the orbicular ; the reniform rufous with dark 

 centre and edge ; an obliquely curved postmedial line ; a double 

 straight submarginal line, the area beyond it reddish suffused 

 with purple with a dentate marginal line. Hind wing whitish, 



