552 NOCTUIDJE. 



with hair; tibiae thickly fringed with hair especially the fore 

 tibiae ; hind tarsi fringed with hair on upperside. Fore wing 

 with the apex nearly rectangular. Hind wing with vein 5 from 

 lower angle of cell, which is rather short. 



2628. Ommatophora luminosa, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii, pi. 274, D ; 



C. # 8. no. 2545. 

 Ommatophora fulvastru, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 191. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown; palpi with a black 

 spot at base ; a black shoulder-stripe. Fore wing brown ; the 

 basal and costal areas suffused with glistening purplish, the post- 

 medial area with vinous red ; curved subbasal and waved ante- 

 medial black lines ; an ocellus beyond end of cell composed of a 

 white-edged brown lunule on inner side, a blackish pupil with 

 greenish-yellow patch on it, the outer edge black and arising from 



Fig. 313. Ommatophora luminosa, <$. \. 



a black spot above the pupil; a postmedial line oblique and 

 whitish from the costa to vein 6, then becoming a curved black 

 line with greenish lower edge to below the ocellus, and thence 

 sinuous to inner margin ; an indistinct, pale, oblique submarginal 

 line, dentate near costa and inner margin. Hind wing with fuscous 

 medial line; highly dentate postmedial, with two indistinct 

 i'uscous lines beyond it; both wings with two crenulate black 

 lines inside the margin ; underside with large black cell-spot and 

 some white marks on a diffused submarginal band. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Assam ; Java ; Philippines. Exp. 62 millim. 



Genus SPIRAMA. 



Spirama, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 194 (1852). 

 Hypopyra, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 198. 

 Emnonodia, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1332. 

 Maxula, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 1096 (1865). 



Type, S. retorta, Linn. 



Range. Japan ; China ; Chusan ; throughout India, Ceylon, and 

 Burma ; Andamans ; Borneo ; Java. 



Differs from Ommatophora in the antennae usually being minutely 

 fasciculate in male, the tibiae not hairy, and the mid tibiae spined. 



