68 MR. F. MOORE ON THE OPHIDERINZ OF THE INDIAN REGION. 
Male. Fore wing deep ferruginous-brown, with numerous darker brown strigz ; 
crossed by indistinct greenish-brown fasciee, which are bordered with glaucous-grey or 
purple ; a subbasal, an antemedian, and a postmedian transverse oblique black line ; a 
brown-bordered reniform mark. Hind wing orange-yellow; marginal black band atte- 
nuated hindward, cilial spots yellow; a short black bilobed discal band. Thorax, head, 
palpi, fore and middle legs deep ferruginous-brown ; abdomen and hind legs orange- 
yellow. 
Female. Fore wing dark purple-brown, strige darker, transverse fascie glaucous- 
purple, postmedian transverse oblique black line sinuous hindward, a broad longitudinal 
irregular green band extending below the cell from near base to beyond postmedian 
line; reniform mark partly green. Other parts as in male. 
Expanse 21 to 3 inches. 
Hab. India (Allahabad, Bombay, Canara, Nilgiris, Darjiling) ; Ceylon. 
“‘ Larva half-looper; sixteen legs, the first ventral pair being so slightly developed as 
to be useless for the purpose of progression; cylindrical, the 11th segment raised, and 
the apex surmounted by a single blunt red tubercle raised above the skin, behind which 
the body slopes abruptly down towards the anal legs; spiracles oval and black. General 
colour dusky purplish-brown, dotted with numerous minute cobalt-blue spots regularly 
arranged, and with large yellow oval patches on the 4th, 5th, and 6th segments, those 
on the sides of the 5th and 6th being in the shape of ocelli, the iris yellow, pupil azure 
blue, surrounded by black; the 9th and 10th segments also patched with yellow irre- 
gularly more or less. Changes to pupa beneath a canopy of living leaves fastened 
firmly together and thinly lined with a bed of silk; pupa fastened by the tail; of an 
orange-colour, beautifully burnished and rough like shagreen; the lower part of the 
thorax is much compressed, in fact quite sharp. Found during June, July, and August 
and sparingly in October and November below the Ghats, and in July and August above 
the Ghats.” (S. WV. Ward, MS. Notes.) 
Has been reared by Dr. Thwaites, in Ceylon, from larva feeding on Menispermum ; 
Mr. 8. N. Ward reared the larva, in Canara, upon Cocculus villosus. 
OTHREIS SMARAGDIPICTA. 
Ophideres smaragdipicta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1229 (1857), 2. 
Female. Fore wing deep ferruginous-brown, with a purplish tinge, varied with black 
strige, which are darkest and thickly confluent on the costa and disk; an irregular- 
shaped longitudinal bright green band extending from the base below the cell, its broad 
basal centre being brown; some green strigz along the costa, and a thick cluster below 
the apex and along exterior border. Hind wing orange-yellow, marginal black band 
broad, extending paler along the costa and suffusing the base; a short black bilobed 
