502 NOCTUID^. 



The variety discalis has the whole of the dark patch between the 

 white band and the postmedial line suffused with purplish white. 



Hah. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma : Andainans. Exp. 

 63 inillim. 



2511. Ophiusa amygdalis, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 551, pi. 214, fig. 3; 



C. 8r 8. no. 26C0. 



Differs from maturescens (p. 499) in being suffused with lilacine 

 grey. Tore wing with the antemedial line bent outwards below the 

 cell ; the apical streak with its outer edge indented ; three white 

 specks on the costa before apex. 



Hah. Sikhim ; Nilgiris; Travancore ; Ceylon. Exp. 52 millim. 



2512. Ophiusa onelia, Guen. Nod. hi, p. 256; C. $ 8. no. 2637; 



Moore, Lep. Ceyl. hi, pi. 170, figs. 1, 1 b (larva). 

 Naxia lageos, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 256. 

 Ophiusa umhrosa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 968. 

 Ophiusa luteipalpis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 968 ; C. fy 8. no. 2671. 

 Ophiusa ohumbrata, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 969. 



Dark grey-brown with a purplish tinge ; the head and collar 

 usually fulvous. Fore wing suffused with brown ; subbasal, ante- 

 and postmedial indistinct waved lines and antemedial and medial 

 ill-defined grey bands ; a grey apical patch with whitish edges, and 

 a sinuous dark line from it to inner margin ; an indistinct dentate 

 submarginal line ; the margin grey. Hind wing with traces of 

 medial and submarginal pale lines near inner margin ; the outer 

 margin grey. 



Larva with the 1st two pairs of abdominal prolegs rudimentary ; 

 greyish white above ; olive-grey below, with black spots in some- 

 what linear series on each somite ; a reddish lateral spot on 4th 

 somite. Pupa efflorescent. Food-plant, Phyllanthus. 



Hah. China ; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Penang ; 

 Java. Exp. 44-46 millim. 



B. The hind wing orange. 



2513. Ophiusa COronata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 596; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. 

 iii, pi. 167, fig. 1, and pi. 166, fig. 5 (larva) ; C. 8? S. no. 2595. 

 Noctua leonina, Fabr. t. c. p. 596. 

 Noctua ancilla, Fabr. Ent. Sys/. iii, 2, p. 17. 

 Corycia magica, Hiibn. Zutr. iii, p. 32, figs. 535, 536. 



Head and thorax pale reddish brown ; abdomen orange, the 

 segments fringed with black. Fore wing irrorated with dark 

 specks ; a short subbasal dark line ; an outwardly-oblique, slightly 

 sinuous, antemedial line ; the orbicular small, round, and grey ; the 

 reniform large and chocolate, ringed with grey or broken up into 

 grey or chocolate grey-ringed spots ; a slightly inwardly-oblique 

 postmedial line ; a pale submarginal line, slightly bent below the 

 costa. Hind wing orange, with broad medial and submarginal 

 fuscous black bands not reaching inner margin, the latter widest 



