42 OPHIITSID^E. 



the end of the cell ; the belts of secondaries straight ; thorax darker ; collar redder. Under 

 surface uniformly red, crossed by three equidistant dusky discal stripes ; veins, base, and a 

 submarginal series of angular markings brownish. Expanse of wings 3 inches 1 line. 

 Yokohama (Jonas). 



ophiusim;. 



CHRYSORITHRUM, Butl. 



Chrysorithrum sericeum. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 4.) 

 Chrysorithrum sericeum, Butler, Ann. <Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 292 (1878). 



Smaller and darker than G. amataj primaries shining slaty grey; all the markings black, and 

 surrounded by a line of the ground-colour, followed by a black line; the bands somewhat different in 

 shape : secondaries fuliginous brown, darkest on the disk, with a broad, central, tapering, ochreous 

 band, not reaching the anal angle : body dark slaty grey ; back of head, collar, and tegula? blackish. 

 Under surface fuliginous brown, outer border narrowly grey : primaries with a broad subbasal 

 sordid ochreous patch ; a pale stramineous discal belt crossed by black nervures : secon- 

 daries with the basal third greyish ; a central oblique squamose stramineous streak ; palpi, 

 tarsi, and the upper surface of the coxa? and femora of the front legs brown. Expanse of wings 

 2 inches 4 lines. 



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OPHIUSA, Guinee. 



Ophiusa dulcis. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 5.) 

 Ophhisa dulcis, Butler, Ann. 6f Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 293 (1878). 



Allied to 0. angularis of Madagascar, but rather smaller, greyer ; the lilacine belt of pri- 

 maries with parallel margins ; the brown belt beyond it narrower, feebly and regularly excavated 

 from the middle to the inner margin, but not sinuate-angulated ; apical blackish spots larger 

 and confluent : secondaries with whitish border. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 



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EUCLIDIA, Ochs. 



Euclidia consors. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 6.) 

 Euclidia consors, Butler, Ann. § Mag Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 293 (1878). 



Primaries above like E. cuspidea of Europe, but paler and with the oblique inner band 



