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discal band. Thorax, head, palpi, fore legs in front, and tarsi beneath dark ferruginous- 
brown, thorax grey-speckled ; abdomen above orange-yellow, beneath blackish. 
Expanse 3 inches. 
Hab. Borneo. In coll. British Museum. 
KADIRA, n. gen. 
Differs from Othreis in the fore wing having a decided falcate apex, the hind margin 
with shorter and more deeply excavated space between the angles; the hind wing also 
shorter ; the palpi having the third joint slender and not tufted at the apex, the second 
joint also being more slender; fore tibie less tufted, and tarsi more spimous. 
KHADIRA AURANTIA. (Plate XIII. fig. 4.) 
Ophideres aurantia, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1877, p. 607. 
Male. Fore wing dark ochrey-red, with numerous short transverse grey strige, veins 
alternate grey- and black-speckled ; a narrow black oblique band from apex to middle 
of excavation on hind margin; the oblique band, two inner and two outer transverse 
dusky fasciee bordered inwardly with purple-grey: hind wing pale orange-yellow, with 
a black, short, curved, narrow submarginal band, and broader, short, constricted discal 
band. Thorax, head, palpi, fore legs in front, and antennze ochrey-red; abdomen pale 
orange-yellow. Underside orange-yellow; fore wing with a dusky patch at the apex, 
and two blackish short curved oblique discal streaks above posterior angle; hind wing 
_ with a short black discal spot and an indistinct dusky outer fascia. 
Expanse 4 inches. 
Hab. South Andamans. In coll. British Museum. 
ADRIS, n. gen. 
Fore wing: costa arched beyond the middle, convex at the end, the apex being pro- 
duced into a lengthened point; exterior margin very oblique, convex, the angle very 
acute ; posterior margin very short in the male, lobe much produced, excavation beyond 
short. Hind wing prolonged anteriorly, the exterior margin slightly concave below the 
apex; veins similar to those in Othreis. Palpi larger and stouter than in the other 
genus, more laxly clothed, the third joint with a large, flattened, dense tuft above. 
Fore tibiz in male more densely clothed with longer lateral hairs. 
Type A. tyrannus. 
Apris Tyrannus. (Plate XIII. fig. 5, ¢.) 
Ophideres tyrannus, Guenée, Noct. iii. p. 110 (1852) ; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xii. 
p- 1224. 
Male. Fore wing dark ochreous-brown, with indistinct darker transverse sinuous 
fascie bordered with chalybeous purple; sparsely covered with dark red-brown delicate 
