FROM THE INDIAN ARCIIIPELAOO. 83 



(luabus obliquis, lituris qimtuor guttisqiie duabus nigris; abdomine 

 linea guttulaii fasciisque interriiptis piceis; alls anticis pallide 

 cinereis, annulis variis elongatis liturisque subcostalibus fuscis, 

 strigis marglnalibas obscurioribus, lituris duabus subcostalibus 

 albidis elongatis ; alis posticis ochraceis, strigis duabus margiaeque 

 nigricantibus. 

 Female. Green, partly testaceous. Head with a notched transverse 

 black line, which includes the ocelli ; face black on each side next 

 the front. Prothorax with a black stripe, which is broadest at its 

 hind end ; two black dots on each side, one in the disk, the other 

 next the border, which is dilated and obtusely angular on each side. 

 Mesothorax with four longitudinal black marks on the fore border ; 

 two black dots on the hind border, opposite to the inner marks, which 

 are broader than the outer pair ; a black oblique stripe on each side. 

 Abdomen with a piceous band on the fore border of each segment ; 

 these bands are interrupted in the middle, where there is a row of 

 piceous dots. Fore wings pale cinereous, sericeous, long, narrow, 

 with several fusiform longitudinal brown ringlets of various sizes ; 

 some of these are incomplete ; a row of short, darker brown streaks 

 along the exterior border, the hinder streaks forming ringlets ; some 

 brown subcostal marks; two elongated, whitish, subcostal marks. 

 Hind wings ochraceous ; blackish-bordered ; two blackish streaks in 

 the disk, the fore one capitate. Length of the body 10-]0| lines; 

 of the wings 30-32 lines. 

 Hah. Amboina; Ceram ; Morty. 



Most allied to F. Jiilpa (Cat. Horn. i. 6), from which it may 

 be distinguished by the streaks on the fore wings, which are paler 

 and have not the complete hyaline band of the latter species. 



Gen. OxTPLEUKA, Amyot et Serv. 



2. OxYPLEURA CANESCENS. F(£m. Tcstacca, cauo pubcsccns ; capitc 

 fasciis duabus nigris, 1* excavata, 2^ tenui ; prothorace nigro-marginato, 

 lateribus rectangulatis ; mesothorace maculis quatuor nigris obconicis; 

 abdomine fasciis apiceque nigris ; tarsis piceis ; alis diaphanis, costa 

 testacea, venis fulvis, venis transversis venisque marginalibus nonnun- 

 quam fusco nebulosis. 



Female. Testaceous, with hoary pubescence, probably pale green when 

 recent. Head with two irregular black bands; first band between 

 the eyes, much excavated ; second in front, very narrow. Prothorax 

 bordered with black and dilated into a right angle on each side. 

 Mesothorax with four obconical black spots which rest on the fore 

 border, the outer pair very large. Abdomen with a black band on 

 the fore border of each segment ; tip black. Tarsi piceous. Wings 

 pellucid; costa testaceous; veins tawny; transverse veins and mar- 



