OPHTHALMODES. — ELPHOS. 65 



When Boarmia is subdivided, as it must be eventually, this species will probably form 

 the type of a new genus : before breaking up this large group, however, it will be uecessary 



to ascertain without doubt which section of the genus shall retain the name Boarmia, a work 

 requiring no small amount of time and labour. 



OPHTHALMODES, Guen. 



Ophthalmodes infusaria. (Plate CXVI. fig. 6.) 

 Ophthalmodcs infusaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xx. p. 448. n. 4 ( 18G0). 



Sericeous pale whity brown, densely mottled and banded with olive-green, the pattern 

 being almost identical with that of O. herbidaria, Guen. ( = diurnaria, Walk.), but with 

 diffused green instead of black markings on the upper surface, and on the under surface 

 a much narrower and more angular band across the secondaries, which is also much 

 further from the outer margin; the whole of the dark markings on the under surface are, 

 moreover, greyer than in O. herbidaria. Expanse of wings 74 millim. 



Silhet (Stainsforth) . 



Although from the same locality, this is not likely to be a variety of 0. herbidaria ; 

 indeed it is far more distinct from it than are 0. exemptaria and O. clararia from Borneo 

 and Java. 



ELPHOS, Guen. 



Elplios pardicelata. (Plate CXVI. fig. 7.) 

 Elphos pardicelata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxvi. p. 1544 (1862). 



Nearly allied to E. hymenaria of Silhet, but altogether paler and more evenly coloured 

 in both sexes, which are also much more alike than in E. hymenaria : wings white, sprinkled 

 all over with small grey and blackish spots, and banded with pale sandy testaceous and 

 greyish ; the ordinary markings formed exactly as in E. hymenaria, but none of them quite 

 black, and most of them ill-defined ; body grey. Under surface very distinct from E. hij- 

 menaria, creamy white : the primaries sparsely mottled with grey, with a large spot at the end 

 of the cell, a subapical belt, and a large spot near external angle blackish : secondaries with a 

 large spot at the end of the cell, an angular subapical patch, a large spot near the middle ot 

 the outer margin, and another near the anal angle blackish : body below greyish. Expanse 

 of wings 85 millim. 



India (Hearsay). 



