72 MR. F. MOORE ON THE OPHIDERINZ OF THE INDIAN REGION. 
Hat. India (Kussowlie, Darjiling, Khasias, Caleutta, Nilgiris, Madras); Ceylon ; 
Singapore; Java; Formosa; Shanghai; Japan. 
A widely distributed species, which has also been taken at sea in north of Bay of 
Bengal in October. A specimen from Australia is in the British-Museum collection. 
Larva reared on Menispermum glabrum at Allipore, by Mr. A. Grote. In Ceylon the 
larva is also found on the same plant. Dr. Horsfield reared it in Java during February 
and March from larva feeding on a species of Cissus. 
VANDANA, 0. gen. 
Fore wing less angular in form than in Manas salaminia, the costal border more 
arched, and the hind wing with a greater width of lobe at the base ; second joint of the 
palpi longer, and the third joint very long and slender. 
VANDANA DIVIDENS. 
Ophideres dividens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. xiii. p. 1228 (1857), 9. 
Female. Fore wing pale fawn-colour, greenish and darkest along the costa, and with 
a slight rosy tinge, base tinged with pale olive-green; crossed by a dark sap-green 
oblique band, which is attenuated at the apex and dilating in width to posterior mar- 
gin, the inner border of the band even, and the outer border irregular hindward ; 
reniform mark black, elongated longitudinally, angled at the lower end of the cell, and 
divided by a pale line along the discocellular vein; a pale sap-green narrow fascia 
outside the oblique band. Hind wing orange-yellow, marginal black band broad, with 
small yellow cilial spots; short black bilobed discal band also broad. Thorax, head, 
palpi, legs, and body beneath brownish fawn-colour ; abdomen above orange-yellow. 
Underside: fore wing brown, with an oblique medial band, and base of hind margin 
only yellow; hind wing with the marginal brown band extending broadly along the 
costa to the base. 
Expanse 33 inches. 
Hab. Java. In Coll. British Museum. 
Ruytia, Hiibner. 
Rhytia, Hibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264 (1816). 
Ophideres (part), Guenée, Walker. 
Fore wing in male and female with the exterior margin even, and angled outward 
in the middle; palpi very long, the third joint with broad clavate tufted tip. Larva 
similar in form to that of Othreis, but with slight dorsal protuberance on the 5th, 6th, 
7th and 11th segments. 
