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Orurets caseTa. (Plate XIII. figs. 2,2a, ¢ 9.) 
Phalena Noct. cajeta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. p. 48, pl. xxx. f. AB, g, C, 2. 
Corycia cajeta, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 265. 
Ophideres cajeta, Guenée, Noct. iii. p. 112, g 9. 
Ophideres multiscripta, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1226, 2. 
Male. Fore wing dark umber-brown, suffused with greyish fawn-colour externally, 
greyest at the posterior angle; a few grey strigze disposed on basal and costal areas, and 
a basal and subapical cluster of green or cream and dark brown scales; veins alternate 
pale and black-speckled ; an equidistant curved antemedian and a postmedian transverse 
blackish double line, prominent and pale-centred in some, indistinct in others; a small 
pale-circled dark orbicular spot, and pale-bordered, dark, elongated, lunular, reniform 
mark. Hind wing orange-yellow; a black apical marginal band, with row of yellow cilial 
spots, and a short, black, curved, discal band. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above 
brown, legs with white spots. 
Female. Fore wing brownish fawn-colour, numerously covered with black, pale-grey- 
bordered, speckled strigze, which are thickly disposed along the costa, and form irregular 
fasciz across the disk ; posterior angle broadly greyish, above which is a small dentate 
whitish spot; reniform mark prominent, angled hindward and black-lined ; a minute 
black, pale-circled, orbicular spot. Hind wing and body as in male. 
Expanse 3 to 32 inches. 
Hab. §. India (Malabar and Madras); Ceylon. 
This species has a limited range, the specimens under examination having been - 
either from South India or Ceylon. It is very rare. A single specimen is in the 
Banksian Cabinet in the British Museum; but there are none in the General Cabinet. 
“Larva feeds on the Muttee (Terminalia, sp.). Found in September. Makes a slight 
web within a canopy of living leaves. Pupa plum-colour, with a thick bloom or powder 
which comes off when touched; front part smooth, top of thorax rounded; the three 
first segments of thorax very much humped, the succeeding ones decreasing in size like 
steps; extremity blunt and rounded, with several hooked bristles disposed like a bow- 
string.” (S. V. Ward, MS. Notes.) 
OTHREIS ANCILLA. (Plate XII. figs. 2, 2a, larva and pupa; Plate XIII. figs. 3, 3, 
imago ¢ 2.) 
Phalena Noct. ancilla, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 84, pl. exlix. f. F (1779), ?. 
Ophideres ancilla, Guenée, Noct. iii. p. 114, 9 ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1224, 2 . 
Phalena strigata, Donovan, Ins. Ind. pl. liv. (1800), ?. 
Othreis homaéna, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264. 
Ophideres bilineosa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1227 (1857), 3. 
