74 ME. F. MOOEE ON THE OPHIDEEINiE OF THE INDIAN EEGION. 



with a lateral linear grey streak; abdomen and legs above orange-yellow, beneath 



grey. 



Female. Fore wing darker green, with a series of creamy-white spots on the disco- 

 cellular area, another series below the cell, a large patch at the posterior angle, and 

 two small slender spots below the apex, all partially crossed by slender brown strigse. 



Expanse 3 to 3| inches. 

 ' Hob. India [Bomlay, Canara, Mlgiris, Larjiling, Khasia) ; Burmah {Mouhnein) ; 

 Andamans ; Ceylon. 



" Larva semilooper, cylindrical, elongated, slightly humped on the 4th, 5th, Gth, and 

 11th segments. Legs fourteen, with a rudimentary pair on 6th segment. Colour dusky 

 purplish-brown, blotched with very dark brown, and spotted with minute dots of cobalt- 

 blue ; on each side of 5th and 6th segments is a large ocellus, the iris bright yellow in 

 front and Vermillion behind, pupil purplish-brown, with a crescent of cobalt-blue, and 

 with a centre which is considerably darker than the rest ; besides these the body is 

 extensively marked with black and yellow patches of different shapes. Changes occupy 

 twenty-six days." [S. N. Ward, M.S. Notes, Canara.) 



Argadesa, n. gen. 

 Ophideres (part), Guenee, Walker. 



Fore wing in male and female with the exterior margin oblique and scalloped 

 throughout its length ; jjalpi shorter, and the third joint slender. Larva similar in 

 form to that of Othreis. 



Argadesa materna. (Plate XII. figs. 4, 4 a, h, c, d, larva and pupa ; Plate XIV. fig. 3, 

 3ff, imago, d ? .) 



Phalana Nod. materna, Liuiia;us, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 810 ; Drury, Ins. ii. p. 24, pi. xiii. f. 4; Cramer, 



Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 174. f. B ; iii. pi. 267. f. B. 

 Noctiia materna, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 212; Mant. lus. ii. p. 137 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 16. 

 Rhijtia materna, Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 2C4. 



Triphana materna, West-wood, Nat. Libr. xxxvii. Exotic Moths, p. 201, pi. xxv. fig. 2. 

 Ophideres materna, Boisduval, Faun. Ent. Madag. Bourb. et Maur. Lep. p. 100 ; Guenee, Noct. iii. 



p. 113; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. siii. p. 1221. 

 Noctua hybrida, Fabricius, Syst. Eut. p. 593. 



Male. Fore wing greenish-grey, covered with greenish-brown or purple-brown trans- 

 verse confluent strigEe ; a short curved dark brown antemediau costal line and a distinct 

 oblique postmedian line ; between the lines are three purple-glossed, plumbeous, longi- 

 tudinal streaks, the upper short and near the costa, the next from lower angle of the 

 cell, the third below the cell ; reniform mark trilobed, purple-black ; a narrow grey 

 streak curving below the apex and spreading irregularly to the posterior angle. Hind 



