ophiusa. 495 



Larva bluish grey speckled with blue-black ; lateral and sub- 

 lateral yellowish bands with intervening blue-grey line ; a dorsal 

 black stripe bordered by reddish-white spots between 4th and 5th 

 somites ; a pair of dorsal red tubercles on anal somite ; spiracles 

 and fore legs red ; the bead black-striped. 



Hab. Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian regions. Exp. 60- 

 70 millim. 



2484. Ophiusa serva, Fair. Syst. Ent. p. 593 ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, 



pi. 169, figs. 4, 4 «, b ; C. $ S. no. 2628. 

 Noctua vulpina, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, 2, p. 39. 

 Noctua mercatoria, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, p. 62. 

 Ach&a ino, Hilbn. Verz. p. 269. 

 Achaea fasciculipes, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1400. 

 Achgea nubifera, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 609, pi. 59, fig. 9 ; 



C. $ S. no. 2626. 



Differs from melicerte in being usually more uniform pale 

 brick-red, with the markings of the fore wing indistinct ; the ante- 

 medial, medial, and postmedial lines are waved and often double. 

 Hind wing with the medial band less prominent ; the marginal 

 spots smaller, that at anal angle obsolescent. 



The form fasciculipes is large and dark. 



Hab. Peninsular India ; Ceylon ; Burma ; Borneo ; Java; Celebes; 

 New Hebrides ; Australia. Exp. 50-76 millim. 



2485. Ophiusa illibata, Fabr. Syst. Ent p. 592 ; C. $ S. no. 2622. 

 Hemeroblemma peropaca, Hilbn. Zutr. iii, p. 33, figs. 541, 542. 

 Ophisma laetabilis, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 241. 



Ophisma contenta, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1381 ; C. $ S. no. 2614. 



Pale rufous. Fore wing with short subbasal and oblique ante- 

 medial dark lines on pale reddish bands ; the reniform large with 

 a dark line in it ; three indistinct waved postmedial lines on pale 

 reddish suffusion and one submarginal line ; a large semicircular 

 patch with white edges at apex. Abdomen and hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the latter with indistinct pale medial line ; the margin grey 

 except at apex. 



Hab. China; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma. Exp. 

 72 millim. 



2486. Ophiusa circumsignata, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 255; C. fy S. 



no. 2634. 



Pale ochreous brown. Pore wing with waved subbasal line; 

 an antemedial line angled in the cell; traces of some whitish 

 medial suffusion ; a dark speck at end of cell ; two curved and 

 waved postmedial lines ; an apical brown patch with ochreous 

 edges, three specks on the costa and some whitish suffusion on it ; 

 the margin whitish with a series of marginal black specks. Hind 

 wing with indistinct curved medial line and black spot at anal 

 angle ; the margin whitish with a series of black specks. 



Hab. Sylhet. Exp. 50 millim. 



