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Genus OPHTHALMODES. 

 Ophthalmodes, Guen. Phal i, p. 283 (1857). 



Type. 0. lierbidaria, Guen. 



Range. Japan; China; Himalayas; Assam; Svlhet; Ganjam ; 

 Ceylon ; Borneo. 



Palpi reaching vertex of head and fringed with hair in front ; 

 antennae bipectinated to near apex in both sexes, the branches 

 longer in the male than the female ; hind tibiae not dilated. Fore 

 wing with a fovea in male ; the apex rounded ; vein 3 from close 

 to angle of cell ; 7, 8, 9 stalked from near upper angle ; 10 free ; 

 11 given off from 12. Hind wing with vein 3 from close to angle 

 of cell. 



3375. Ophthalmodes herbidaria, Guen. Phal. i, p. 283 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceifl. iii, pi. 191, tip-. 4 ; C. $ S. no. 3367. 



Ophthalmodes diurnaria, Guen. Phal. i, fig. 284 ; C. fy S. no. 3366. 

 Boarmia pertusaria, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 125, fig. 17. 

 Ophthalmodes mundata, Wlk. Char, undescr. Het. p. 97 ; C. % S. 



no. 3369. 



Ophthalmodes pulsaria, Sivinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 489. 

 Ophthalmodes lectularia, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 489, 



pi. 19, fig. 4. 



Grass-green, grey-green, or yellowish green, irrorated with black ; 

 abdomen with paired black dorsal specks. Fore wing with waved 

 antemedial and dentate medial, post-medial, and subrnarginal black 

 lines, the medial excurved round a black annulus at end of cell, the 

 postmedial bent inwards to near the medial line below vein 4. 



Fig. 136. Ophthalmodes herbidaria, . \. 



Hind wing with annulus at end of cell ; dentate subbasal, medial, 

 and submarginal lines ; both wings with marginal series of black 

 specks. Underside with large spot at end of cell of each wing, 

 and more or less complete broad marginal fuscous band. 



In herbidaria the colour is grey or grass-green ; underside of 

 male pale fuscous with the marginal band complete, in the female 

 whitish with the margin also whitish. Diurnaria is yellowish 



