74 MR. F. MOORE ON THE OPHIDERINA OF THE INDIAN REGION. 
with a lateral linear grey streak; abdomen and legs above orange-yellow, beneath 
grey. 
Female. Fore wing darker green, with a series of creamy-white spots on the disco- 
cellular area, another series below the cell, a large patch at the posterior angle, and 
two small slender spots below the apex, all partially crossed by slender brown strige. 
Expanse 5 to 34 inches. 
Hab. India (Bombay, Canara, Nilgiris, Darjiling, Khasia); Burmah (Moulmein) ; 
Andamans ; Ceylon. 
“ Larva semilooper, cylindrical, elongated, slightly humped on the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 
11th segments. Legs fourteen, with a rudimentary pair on 6th segment. Colour dusky 
purplish-brown, blotched with very dark brown, and spotted with minute dots of cobalt- 
blue; on each side of 5th and 6th segments is a large ocellus, the iris bright yellow in 
front and vermillion behind, pupil purplish-brown, with a crescent of cobalt-blue, and 
with a centre which is considerably darker than the rest; besides these the body is 
extensively marked with black and yellow patches of different shapes. Changes occupy 
twenty-six days.” (S. V. Ward, M.S. Notes, Canara.) 
ARGADESA, n. gen. 
Ophideres (part), Guenée, Walker. 
Fore wing in male and female with the exterior margin oblique and scalloped 
throughout its length; palpi shorter, and the third joint slender. Larva similar in 
form to that of Othreis. 
ARGADESA MATERNA. (Plate XII. figs. 4, 4a, 6,¢,d, larva and pupa; Plate XIV. fig. 3, 
3a, imago, ¢ & .) 
Phalena Noct. materna, Linneus, Syst. Nat. ii. p. 840; Drury, Ins. ii. p. 24, pl. xiii. f. 4; Cramer, 
Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 174. f. B; iii. pl. 267. f. E. 
Noctua materna, Faby. Spec. Ins, ii. p. 212; Mant. Ins. ii. p. 187 ; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 16. 
Rhytia materna, Hiibuer, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 264. 
Triphena materna, Westwood, Nat. Libr. xxxvii. Exotic Moths, p. 201, pl. xxv. fig. 2. 
Ophideres materna, Boisduval, Faun. Ent. Madag. Bourb. et Maur. Lép. p. 100; Guenée, Noct. iii. 
p. 113; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus. sii. p. 1221. 
Noctua hybrida, Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 593. 
Male. Fore wing greenish-grey, covered with greenish-brown or purple-brown trans- 
verse confluent strige ; a short curved dark brown antemedian costal line anda distinct 
oblique postmedian line ; between the lines are three purple-glossed, plumbeous, longi- 
tudinal streaks, the upper short and near the costa, the next from lower angle of the 
cell, the third below the cell; reniform mark trilobed, purple-black; a narrow grey 
streak curving below the apex and spreading irregularly to the posterior angle. Hind 
