ME. r. MOORE ON THE OPHLDEEIN^ OF THE INDIAN EEQION. 71 



PURBIA DISCREPANS. (Plate XIV. fig. 1, cj .) 



Ophideres discrepans,Wa\ker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. siii. p. 1227 (1857), (J. 

 Ophideres archon, Felder, Reise der Novara, Lep. pi. cxiii. f. 3 (1873-i), ? . 



Male. Fore wing pale purplish-brown or fawn-colour, with a few black speckles 

 along the costa and on the veins ; crossed by three very indistinct and incomplete nar- 

 row brown bands, the outer sinuously recurved and bordered externally by clusters of 

 greenish scales; an indistinct greenish subbasal spot and a green-speckled reniform 

 mark. Hind wing orange-yellow, with broad black apical marginal band, the row of 

 cilial spots and apical angle being white; a short broad curved black discal band. 

 Thorax, head, palpi, and legs purplish brown ; abdomen orange-yellow. 



Female. Differs in having a narrow white reniform mark, and two short linear white 

 spots on middle of the disk. 



Expanse 3 to -Sf inches. 



Hab. India {Malabar) ; Siam ; Singapore ; Java. 



MiENAS, Hiibner. 

 Manas, Hiibuer, Yerz. bek. Schmett. p. 2CJ. (1810). 

 Ophideres (part), Guenee, Walker. 



Fore wing elongated, trigonal; costa slightly arched towards the end, apex acute; 

 exterior margin oblique, straight ; posterior margin long, with a tufted angle near base ; 

 slightly curved to the end. Palpi short, compactly clothed with short scales ; apical 

 joint small, very short, and conical. Larva similar in form to that of Othreis. 



M^NAS S.\LAMINIA. (Plate XII. figs. 3, Bff, 3 J, larva and pupa ; Plate XIV. fig. 2, 

 imago.) 



Phalena Nod. salaminia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 117, pi. clxsiv. f. A (1779); Clerck, Icones, 



pi. xlviii. f. 5, 6. 

 Noctua salaminia, Fabr. Eut. Syst. iii. 2, p. 17 (1793). 

 Manas salaminia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264. 

 Ophideres salaminia, Guenee, Noet. iii. p. 113; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1225. 



Male and Female. Fore wing dark green with golden reflections ; a broad purplish- 

 grey costal band extending from near base of hind margin to the apex, and a nanow 

 similar band on exterior border, the costal band with numerous short green and ociire- 

 ous transverse strigae, which are confluent along the costal border, the exterior band 

 with paler purplish-green inner border ; a distinct red line along the discal portion of 

 the lower median vein. Hind wing orange-yellow, with a black apical marginal band 

 and yellow cilial spots, and a short black bilobed discal band. Thorax, head, palpi, 

 and front of fore legs ochreous-green ; abdomen and legs orange-yellow. 



Expanse 3 to 3^ inches. 

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