MR. F. MOORE ON THE OPHIDERINE OF THE INDIAN REGION. 71 
PURBIA DISCREPANS. (Plate XIV. fig. 1, ¢.) 
Ophideres discrepans, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1227 (1857), 3. 
Ophideres archon, Felder, Reise der Novara, Lep. pl. exiii. f. 3 (1873-4), 2. 
Male. Fore wing pale purplish-brown or fawn-colour, with a few black speckles 
along the costa and on the veins; crossed by three very indistinct and incomplete nar- 
row brown bands, the outer sinuously recurved and bordered externally by clusters of 
greenish scales; an indistinct greenish subbasal spot and a green-speckled reniform 
mark. Hind wing orange-yellow, with broad black apical marginal band, the row of 
cilial spots and apical angle being white; a short broad curved black discal band. 
Thorax, head, palpi, and legs purplish brown; abdomen orange-yellow. 
Female. Differs in having a narrow white reniform mark, and two short linear white 
spots on middle of the disk. 
Expanse 5 to 52 inches. 
Hab. India (Malabar); Siam; Singapore; Java. 
Manas, Hiibner. 
Menas, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264 (1816). 
Ophideres (part), Guenée, Walker. 
Fore wing elongated, trigonal; costa slightly arched towards the end, apex acute; 
exterior margin oblique, straight ; posterior margin long, with a tufted angle near base ; 
slightly curved to the end. Palpi short, compactly clothed with short scales; apical 
joint small, very short, and conical. Larva similar in form to that of Othreis. 
Manas SALAMINIA. (Plate XII. figs. 3, 3a, 36, larva and pupa; Plate XIV. fig. 2, 
imago.) 
Phalena Noct. salaminia, Cramer, Pap. Exot, ii. p. 117, pl. clxxiv. f. A (1779); Clerck, Icones, 
pl. xlviii. f. 5, 6. 
Noctua salaminia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 2, p. 17 (1793). 
Menas salaminia, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264. 
Ophideres salaminia, Guenée, Noct. iii. p. 115; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1225. 
Male and Female. Fore wing dark green with golden reflections; a broad purplish- 
grey costal band extending from near base of hind margin to the apex, and a nariow 
similar band on exterior border, the costal band with numerous short green and ociire- 
ous transverse strigze, which are confluent along the costal border, the exterior band 
with paler purplish-green inner border ; a distinct red line along the discal portion of 
the lower median vein. Hind wing orange-yellow, witha black apical marginal band 
and yellow cilial spots, and a short black bilobed discal band. ‘Thorax, head, palpi, 
and front of fore legs ochreous-green ; abdomen and legs orange-yellow. 
Expanse 3 to 34 inches. 
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