OPHTUSA. LAGOPTEBA. 505 



with the outer area fuscous. Underside whitish ; the costal and 

 outer areas of both wings brownish and dark-speckled ; fore wing 

 with a fuscous submarginal band. 



Hob. Assam ; Nilgiris ; Travancore ; Ceylon. Eacp. 66 millim. 



2520. Ophiusa triphsenoides, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1358 ; C. $ S. no. 



2610. 



Head and thorax grey ; palpi dark ; abdomen fuscous. Fore 

 wing violaceous grey irrorated with dark scales ; the costa 

 ochreous ; an antemedial, outwardly-oblique, slightly curved, pale 

 and rufous line ; the orbicular a black speck ; reniform brown 

 with dark outline ; a postmedial, pale and rufous, inwardly-oblique, 

 slightly sinuous line ; a submarginal sinuous line angled outwards 

 at vein 6, the angle filled in with black and with black above it. 

 Hind wing wibh the basal area brownish ochreous, the outer area 

 fuscous black ; cilia white towards apex. Underside with the 

 basal area ochreous white, the outer fuscous. 



Hob. Formosa ; N.W. and E. Himalayas ; Bengal ; W. and S. 

 India. Eocp. 60 millim. 



Genus LAGOPTERA. 

 Lagoptera, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 223 (1852). 



Type, L. juno, Dalm. 



Range. W. Africa ; Japan ; China ; Himalayas ; Mgiris ; Aus- 

 tralia. 



Differs from Oplimsa in the abdomen being clothed with coarse 

 hair on the back and sides, the lateral tufts in the male being 

 large ; mid and hind tibiae spined. Fore wing narrower, \vith the 

 costa more arched near base, then nearly straight to apex, in the 

 male slightly excised ; the apex more produced, and outer margin 

 more oblique. Hind wing of male with very long radiating hair 

 on inner margin ; vein 1 a fringed with hair below. 



2521. Lagoptera Juno, Dalm. Anal Entom. p. 52. 



Ophideres elegans, Van der Hoev. Tijd. Nat. Gesch. vii, p. 280, 



pi. 5, figs. 6, a, b ; C. $ S. no. 2597. 

 Lagoptera multicolor, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 226. 



Head and thorax chestnut or grey-brown ; abdomen crimson 

 with lateral white specks, the dorsum grey-brown except the 

 terminal segment. Fore wing chestnut, grey-brown, or ochreous 

 brown ; a short subbasal rufous line ; an antemedial, slightly 

 sinuous, outwardly-oblique line ; the orbicular a speck ; reniform 

 with indistinct outline, and often with black spots in both upper 

 and lower portions ; an outwardly-oblique, slightly sinuous, post- 

 medial rufous line ; a curved line from apex to outer angle ; the 

 inner margin rufous. Hind wing with the basal area black, with 

 bluish-white ill-defined medial band not reaching costa or inner 

 margin ; the outer area crimson, with a patch of black specks at 



