562 NOCTUIDJE. 



B. (Khadira). Fore wing with the apex produced to a rounded lobe. 



2641. Ophideres aurantia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 607 ; id. Trans. 



Z. S. xi, p. 69, pi. 13, fig. 4 ; C. $ S. no. 2481. 

 Adris rutilus, Moore, Trans. Z. S. xi, p. 70 ; C. fy S. no. 2482. 



Head and thorax ferruginous, suffused with plum-colour; abdomen 

 orange. Fore wing ferruginous, with dark striae and slight purple 

 bloom ; the veins speckled with blue ; the reniform green and 

 indistinct ; a dark line from apex to centre of inner margin, some- 

 times with green patches beyond it. Hind wing orange, with a 

 large black lunule beyond lower angle of cell; a submarginal patch 

 between veins 1 and 2. Underside orange ; fore wing with black 

 mark below angle of cell and beyond the cell between veins 3 and 

 5 ; hind wing with the lunule and patch of upperside, or the latter 

 sometimes wanting. 



Hob. Ceylon ; Andamans ; Borneo. Exp. 108-120 millim. 



SECT. III. Palpi with the 3rd joint highly spatulate at extremity. 



A. (Adris). Fore wing highly produced at apex, the outer margin 



very obliquely rounded. 



2642. Ophideres tyrannus, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 110; Moore, Trans. 



Z. S. xi, p. 69, pi. 13, fig. 5 ; C. # S. no. 2483. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown with plum-coloured bloom ; 

 some blue on 3rd joint of palpi and sides of thorax ; fore and mid 

 tibia3 with a silvery spot near base ; tarsi spotted with white ; 

 abdomen orange. Tore wing chestnut-red or green, much suffused 

 and striated with rufous ; an antemedial oblique rufous line ; the 

 reniform and orbicular green ; a line from apex to centre of inner 

 margin, often outlined with green and sometimes with pale patches 

 inside it ; the outer area sometimes with pale patches towards 

 outer angle ; a blue speck near base and others on the veins. Hind 

 wing orange, with very large black lunule beyond lower angle of 

 cell ; a black submarginal band with waved edges from costa to 

 vein 2. Underside orange ; fore wing with black medial and post- 

 medial bands ; hind wing with the lunule and a postmedial band. 



A Sikhini specimen has the distance between the tufts on lobe 

 and at outer angle of fore wing longer ; underside with the black 

 postmedial band conjoined to black marginal suffusion. 



Hob. Japan ; China ; throughout the Himalayas ; Calcutta. 

 Exp. 110-120 millim. 



B. (Hhytia). Fore wing not produced at apex ; the outer margin 



rounded. 



2643. Ophideres hypermnestra, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv, pi. 323, A, B ; 



C. fy S. no. 2480. 



c? . Head and thorax yellow-green ; palpi, collar, and tegulae 



