88 HYPOGEAMMID.E.— OPHIDEEID-E. 



Cletthara rabdota. (Plate CXLVI. fig. 4.) 



Expanse ^ inch. 



Male. Head, thorax, and fore wing grey, with pale red-brown tints near outer margin ; 

 indistinct narrow postmedial and submarginal brown bands, highly concave towards costa ; 

 dark brown streaks along median nervure and subcostal nervure from end of cell to apex, and 

 one from the end of cell to outer margin ; a dark brown spot near outer angle. Hind wing 

 opalescent white ; an antecilial brown line. Underside of fore wing smoky white. 



OPHIDERID^E. 



Ischygia glaucoptevon. (Plate CXLVII. fig. 19.) 



Expanse 2§ inches. 



Male. Fore wing very dark olive-green ; basal and costal areas shaded oS' to dark bluish 

 grey; a black band, inwardly- bordered with pale brown, outwardly-oblique from costa to 

 subcostal nervure, then straight across the cell, forming the inner margin of the orbicular, 

 which is pale brown with a narrow black line along its oitter margin, and with two pale 

 brown lunules outwardly bordered with black below it, thence from median nervure to inner 

 margin in the shape of a reversed S ; reuiform pale brown, with a narrow black margin, 

 except below, where it is merged in a broad pale brown band, thickly irrorated with black 

 scales, and reaching to the inner margin, the inner margin pf this band concave and edged 

 with black, the outer margin diffused ; a chestnut-coloured streak, widening inwardly, and 

 with diffused black outer edge, from below the apex halfway to reniform, continued down- 

 wards as two more or less well-marked lunules to the pale brown band ; black spots on the 

 second and third median nervules. Some specimens have the outer area from the costa to 

 above outer angle irrorated with blue-grey scales, forming a very indistinct diffused band. 

 Hind wing : basal area black-brown ; a brilliant blue irregular band beyond the cell from 

 costa to discoidal nervule ; the outer area dark olive-green, black towards apex ; a chestnut 

 patch with black strigfe on it on submedian nervure at outer margin ; a pale brown streak 

 bordered with black from middle of inner margin. Underside smoky black : fore wing witli 

 lavender-coloured band from costa to first median nervule two thirds from base, narrow at 

 costa : hind wing with the disc and inner margin of the basal area sufinsed with lavender; a 

 rather narrow well-defined waved band of the same colour across the wing beyond the cell. 

 The hairs covering the head, thorax, abdomen, legs, and palpi tinged with bluish grey. 



Allied to /. schlegelii, Snellen, the male of which has the upperside of the fore wing grey- 

 brown ; the blue band of hind wing wider, with more irregular outer edge. 



