MR. F. MOORE ON THE OPHIDERINZ OF THE INDIAN REGION, 65 
Male. Fore wing dark ferruginous-brown or vinous-brown, numerously covered with 
either ochreous, dark green, or greyish strige, which on the exterior border form irre- 
gular fascie and terminate in a straight streak to the apex; an ante- and a postmedian 
oblique transverse darker brown line, the interspace glossy and suffused generally with 
purple-brown, the reniform mark being more or less unglossed. Hind wing orange- 
yellow, with a broad black apical marginal band and row of pale yellow cilial spots; a 
large broad curved black discal band. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above dark brown; 
abdomen orange-yellow ; legs and abdomen beneath paler; a yellow spot on tibia and 
tarsal joints; palpi black-tipped. 
Female. Fore wing brighter-coloured, mottled grey and brown, strige paler grey; 
discal area and fascize on exterior border chalybeous-grey ; postmedian line irregularly 
sinuous, with a prominent white dentate spot on its middle and narrow lunules below 
it; reniform mark triangular, and more or less black; a minute black orbicular spot. 
’ Hind wing and body as in male. 
Expanse 3 to 43 inches. 
Hab. India, N.W. Himalayas (Masuri, Kussowlie), Lucknow, Umballa, E. Himalayas 
(Darjiling), Cachar, Allipore, W. and E. Ghauts (Bombay, Malabar, Madras); Ceylon ; 
Andamans; Malay peninsula; Penang; Sumatra; Java; Formosa; Shanghai. 
From the above-cited localities (specimens from which haye been examined) it 
will be seen that this species has a very extended range of habitat. Specimens have 
been also occasionally recorded as having been taken on board ship in the eastern seas, 
many miles from land. It also occurs at Moreton Bay, Australia; and an allied (or 
probably the same) species, was taken by Mr. Wallace on Ké Island. Other closely 
allied species from New Hebrides and Navigators’ Islands, and another from Sierra 
Leone, are in the British-Museum Collection. 
This insect is stated to be dreaded by the Australian colonists on account of the mis- 
chief the imago causes to the orange plantations—perforating the ripening fruit with 
its proboscis, and thus causing them to soon fall to the ground and rot. 
This insect has been reared by Mr. A. Grote at Allipore, near Calcutta, from larve 
feeding on Menispermum glabrum. Sir W. Elliot reared it at Vizagapatam: on Coc- 
culus acuminatus and C. cordifolius; and in Java it was frequently reared by Dr. 
Horsfield from larve feeding on the Tayungan (Epibatherium, sp.) and on the Buntia 
Silit (Leschenaultia, sp.) from November to April, being most abundant in the latter 
month. 
Major A. M. Lang, in his Entomological Note-book, gives the following account of 
the rearing of the larva of this species at Lucknow in 1866 :-— 
“September 8th. Took from the middle of the underside of a leaf of (? Menispermum) 
a solitary, spherical, smooth, unsculptured, translucent, light-yellowish egg, about 3!" in 
diameter. Four or five more found on the 13th, all on the underside. On the 1ltha 
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