72 ME. F. MOORE ON THE OPHIDEEIN^ OF THE INDIAN REGION. 



Hah. India [KussowUe, Darjiling, Khasias, Calcutta, Nilgiris, Madras) ; Ceylon ; 

 Singapore ; Java ; Formosa ; Shanghai ; Japan. 



A widely distributed species, which has also been taken at sea in north of Bay of 

 Bengal in October. A specimen from Australia is in the British-Museum collection. 



Larva reared on Menispermum glahrum at AUipore, by Mr. A. Grote. In Ceylon the 

 larva is also found on the same plant. Dr. Horsfield reared it in Java during February 

 and March from larva feeding on a species of Cissus. 



Vandana, n. gen. 



Fore wing less angular in form than in Mcenas salaminia, the costal border more 

 arched, and the hind wing with a greater width of lobe at the base ; second joint of the 

 palpi longer, and the third joint very long and slender. 



Vandana dividens. 

 Ophideres rfwjrfens. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1228 (1857), $. 



Female. Fore wing pale fawn-colour, greenish and darkest along the costa, and with 

 a slight rosy tinge, base tinged with pale olive-green; crossed by a dark sap-gi-een 

 oblique band, which is attenuated at the apex and dilating in width to posterior mar- 

 gin, the inner border of the band even, and the outer border irregular hindward ; 

 reniform mark black, elongated longitudinally, angled at the lower end of the cell, and 

 divided by a pale line along the discocellular vein ; a pale sap-green narrow fascia 

 outside the oblique band. Hind wing orange-yellow, marginal black band broad, with 

 small yellow cilial spots; short black bilobed discal band also broad. Thorax, head, 

 palpi, legs, and body beneath brownish fawn-colour ; abdomen above orange-yellow. 

 Underside : fore wing bro^vn, with an oblique medial band, and base of hind margin 

 only yellow ; hind wing with the marginal brown band extending broadly along the 

 costa to the base. 



Expanse 3f inches. 



Hab. -Java. In Coll. British Museum. 



Ehttia, Hiibner. 

 Rhytia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264 (1816). 

 Ophideres (part), Guenee, Walker. 



Fore wing in male and female with the exterior margin even, and angled outward 

 in the middle ; palpi very long, the third joint with broad clavate tufted tip. Larva 

 similar in form to that of Othreis, but with slight dorsal protuberance on the 5th, 6th, 

 7th and 11th segments. 



