1883. J MK. A. G. BUTLEK ON INDIAN LKPIDOPTERA. 165 



black-speckled, crossed in the middle by two indistinct widely diver- 

 gent pale lines, the inner one abruptly angulated towards the inner 

 margin ; reniform oblique, its upper half blackish as in O. hottentota, 

 separans, &c. (of the O. vesta group) ; a costal black spot halfway 

 between it and the external area, which is zigzag internally as in 

 O. lunaris (but not cuprea), and bounded internally by a continuous 

 black stripe unlike any species known to me : secondaries mouse- 

 brown, with the entire disk from before the middle of the wing to near 

 the outer margin covered by a diffused black nebula : body pale 

 brown. Under surface pale sandy brown ; all the wings crossed by 

 an ill-defined grey discal band. Expanse of wings 47 mm. 

 Solun, in July. 



98. Ophiodes cuprea. 



Ophiodes cuprea, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 74. 

 Locality missing ; we have it from Formosa. 



99. Pandesma anysa. 



Pandesma anysa, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 439, n, 1311 (1852). 

 Locality not recorded. 



100. Opiiiusa achatina. 



Phalcena achatina, Sulzer, Ins. pi. xxii. fig. 4. 



" Dugshai ; I have it also from Suttara, taken iu September." — C. S. 



101. Ophiusa arctot^nia. 



Ophiusa arctotmiiia, Guenee, Noct. Hi. p. 2/2, n. 1711 (1852). 



" Solnn, in June ; dark and less broadly marked with white than 

 my examples of Ophiusa achatina from Kurrachee, Mahableshwur 

 and Umballa."— (7.S. 



102. GiRPA OPTATIVA. 



Remi(/ia optativa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1510, n. 22 

 (1857). 



Locality wanting. 



Colonel Swinhoe says that he has this species from the Nilgherries. 



103. Byturna digramma. 



Bocana digramma. Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. iv. p. 1170 

 (1865). 



Mhow, in September 1881. 



" Also taken at Kurrachee in June." 



This is evidently a variable species : the two characteristic black 

 costal spots are wanting in the type. A specimen, in poor condition, 

 of what may prove to be only another variety was taken by 

 Colonel Swinhoe at Mhow in September; it differs from the more 

 typical example in the clearer colour of its wings, upon which the 

 black costal spots are the only markings to be seen : this form he 

 says was " also taken at Assirghur iu October." 



