64 MR. F, MOORE ON THE OPHIDERINZ OF THE INDIAN REGION. 
Genus OTHREIS, Hubner. 
Othreis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264 (1816). 
Corycia, Hiibuer, ib. p. 265. 
Ophideres (part), Guenée, Walker. 
Fore wing elongated ; costa nearly straight, slightly arched near the end, apex acute ; 
exterior margin oblique and slightly convex hindward, even in the male, scalloped in 
the female; posterior margin short, with a fringed lobe near base, and slight excava- 
tion beyond ; costal vein extending to near apex ; first and second branches of subcostal 
at equal distances before end of cell, third starting from the second at a short distance 
beyond the cell and forked near the apex, fifth anastomosed to third near its juncture 
with the second, sixth from angle below end of the cell; discocellular very slender, 
recurved ; two upper median branches from angles above lower end of the cell, third 
from its end, and fourth at one third; submedian bent near the base. Hind wing broad, 
anterior margin extending beyond angle of fore wing; exterior margin convex, with a 
slight subanal angle, abdominal margin short ; costal vein recurved, extending to apex ; 
subcostal with two branches from end of the cell; discocellular very slender, deeply 
concave ; upper median branches from pointed angles at end of the cell, lower conti- 
guous; three submedians. Body robust, densely clothed above; fore femora and tibiz 
thickly pilose beneath, the latter furnished beneath with an elongated, pouched, glan- 
dular spur; middle and hind legs less pilose, with spurred tibiz and spined tarsi ; palpi 
large, long, ascending, second joint clothed with short adpressed hairy scales, third 
joint slender, long, and with a slight hairy tuft above. Antenne filiform, long, thick- 
ened towards the base. 
Larva semilooped, cylindrical, sparsely covered with minute hairs ; with sixteen feet, 
but the first pair of ventrals rudimentary; eleventh segment thickened at the dorsal 
extremity and surrounded by a tubercular spot. When at rest holds the head up and 
also the last segments ; frequently curling the anterior segments up in front. Changes 
to pupa in a canopy of growing leaves fixed together and lined with a net-like web; 
pupa fastened by the tail. 
OTHREIS FULLONICA. (Plate XII. figs. 1, 1a, larva and pupa; Plate XIII. figs. ds viune 
imago, ¢ 2.) 
Phalena B. fullonica, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p .812 (1767) ; Clerck, Icones, pl. xlviii. figs. 1-4 (Seba, 
Ins. t. 42. f. 13, 142). 
Ophideres fullonica, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 111; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1222. 
Noctua dioscoree, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 593, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 212, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 137, Ent. Syst. 
ili. 2, 16, 26, ¢. 
Phal. N. pomona, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 1. pl. 77. f. C, ¢. 
Othreis pomona, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264. 
Ophideres cajeta, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1223 (nec Cramer). 
