OPHIDERES. CALPB. 563 



marked with grey ; abdomen orange, the anal tuft brown. Fore 

 wing yellow-green, with dark striae ; some grey patches on inner 

 and outer areas ; an oblique rufous antemedial line ; a very oblique 

 rufous line from the costa before apex to centre of inner margin 

 and curved below the costa, where it is joined by a dark streak 

 from the apex. Hind wing orange, with a black spot at lower 

 angle of cell and another above anal angle ; the marginal area black 

 from apex to vein 2 and with marginal and cilial white spots, its 

 inner edge waved. Underside of fore wing with the postraedial 

 band white. 



$ with large and small white rufous -striated patches and spots 

 on fore wing below and beyond cell, at outer angle, and below 

 apex. 



Hob. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. Exp. 88 millim. 



2644. Ophideres COCalus, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 134, B ; C. fy S. 



no. 2479. 



Noctua maculata, Weber, Observ. Ent. p. 111. 

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



Differs from hypermnestra in having no black spot on hind wing ; 

 the black marginal band with nearly even inner edge and extending 

 to anal angle. 



Hob. " Coromandel " ; Sylhet ; Java. Exp. 86 millim. 



2645. Ophideres discrepans, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1227 ; Moore, Trans. 



Z. S. xi, p. 71, pi. 14, fig. 1 ; C.fy'S. no. 2484. 

 Ophideres archon, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 113, fig. 3. 



Head and thorax grey-brown, with a purplish bloom ; abdomen 

 orange. Fore wing purplish grey-brown, irrorated with fuscous ; 

 traces of medial, post-medial, and submarginal lines ; green patches 

 at base, middle, and end of cell, two beyond its lower angle with 

 white spots on them, and some on the submarginal line. Hind 

 wing orange, with large black lunule beyond end of cell ; a broad 

 black marginal band from costa to vein 2 ; the cilia chequered 

 black and white. 



Hob. Assam ; Siam ; Singapore ; Java. Exp. 96 millim. 



Grenus CALPE. 



Calpe, Trdteche, Schmett. Enr. v, pt. ii, p. 138 (1825). 

 Calyptra, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv, p. 78 (1816), praeocc. 

 Onesia, Guen. Noct. ii, p. 362 (1852). 

 Culasta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 376. 

 Hypocalpe, Butl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 157. 



Type, C. capucina, Esp., from Europe and Japan. 



Ranfje. All regions except the Australian. 



Palpi porrect, the 2nd and 3rd joints fringed below with very 

 long hair ; the frontal tuft large ; metathorax with very slight 

 tufts ; abdomen with coarse hair on dorsuin ; tibiae without spines 



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