560 



Phalaena strigata, Donov. Ins. Ind. pi. 54, fig. 2. 

 Othreis homoena, Hilbn. Verz. p. 264. 

 Ophideres bilineosa, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1227. 



c? . Head and thorax fulvous brown ; the collar, metathoracic 

 tufts, and tibiae with an orange tinge ; head and collar with a purple 

 bloom ; abdomen orange. Fore wing olive-green, suffused with 

 purplish red-brown and striated with rufous ; dark subbasal and 

 antemedial lines and slightly curved postmedial line ; traces of 

 some waved medial lines ; an indistinct reniform stigma and dentate 

 submarginal line. Hind wing orange, with large black lunule beyond 

 lower angle of cell ; a submarginal baud with waved edges from 

 costa to vein 2. Underside of fore wing with the postmedial band 

 orange. 



2 . Fore wing much darker, with deep purple and chocolate tones ; 

 a broad verditer-green fascia below the cell, sending bars to inner 

 margin near base and outer angle, and conjoined to the green reni- 

 form spot. 



Larva purplish brown, with numerous blue specks and large 

 yellow patches on 3rd, 4th, and 5th somites, the two latter forming 

 ocelli with yellow iris and azure-blue black-edged pupil ; 8th and 

 9th somites with irregular yellow patches ; a dorsal tubercle on 

 llth somite. Food-plant, Menispermum. Pupa orange, burnished, 

 and roughened. 



Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. Exp. 80 millim. 



b. (Ophideres). Fore wing with the cilia non-crenulate in male, 

 crenulate in female. 



2639. Ophideres Mlonica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 812 ; Moore, Trans. 



Z. S. xi, p. 64, pi. 12, figs. 1, 1 a (larva) ; C. fy S. no. 2477. 

 Noctua dioscoriae, Fair. Sp. Ins. ii, p. 212. 

 Phalaena pomona, Cram. Pap. Exot. i, pi. 77, C. 

 Phalsena cajeta, Cram. Pap. Exot. i, pi. 30, A, B, C ; C. & S. 



no. 2476. 

 Ophideres multiscripta, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1226. 



Head and thorax red-brown suffused with plum-colour ; abdomen 

 orange. Fore wing red-brown, usually with a greenish tinge and 

 irrorated with dark specks ; an oblique antemedial line, generally 

 dark and indistinct, but sometimes pale and prominent; the reniform 

 indistinct ; a curved postmedial line, almost always met by an oblique 

 streak from apex. Hind wing orange, with a large black lunule 

 beyond lower angle of cell ; a marginal black band with cilial pale 

 spots from costa to vein 2. Underside of fore wing with the post- 

 medial band orange. 



5 . Fore wing much more variegated and striated with dark red- 

 brown ; the reniform dark and sending a spur along median nervure 

 to below the orbicular speck ; a triangular white mark usually 

 present on the postmedial line below vein 3. 



Larva, llth somite dilated and surmounted by a tubercle ; colour 

 dark purplish brown, the dorsum brown from 6th to llth somites ; 



