OPHIUSA. 503 



towards costa. Underside orange ; the costal and outer areas of 

 both wings dark-speckled, and with a slight reddish suffusion ; a 

 black patch near outer angle of fore wing. 



Larva dull sienna-brown longitudinally striped with black- 

 brown ; a dorsal black spot on 8th somite ; paired black dorsal 

 tubercles on 10th and 11th somites ; a lateral yellow-edged spot 

 on 5th somite ; underside dark ; head striped with black. Food 

 plant, Quisqualis indica. 



Hab. Throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Andamans ; Java ; 

 Australia. Exp. 82-96 millim. 



2514. Ophiusa discriminans, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1358 ; Hmpsn. III. 



Het. ix, pi. 165, fig. 13 ; C. $ S. no. 2603. 



Head and thorax reddish orange ; palpi grey ; sides of head 

 chestnut ; abdomen orange, with a black dorsal patch near ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing greenish orange, the outer third reddish, 

 slightly irrorated with black ; a faint outwardly- oblique, sinuous 

 antemedial line, and inwardly -oblique crenulate postmedial line; 

 the orbicular a dark speck ; the reniform grey with dark edge ; 

 two grey and black subapical spots ; a series of grey submarginal 

 specks and iarge grey patch at outer angle ; the cilia grey. Hind 

 wing orange, with broad submarginal fuscous-black band. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 65 millim. 



2515. Ophiusa indiscriminata, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, p. Ill, 1.176, 



fig. 23 (larva). 

 Minucia discriminans, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, pi. 166, fig. 4 {nee Wlk.). 



Differs from discriminans in the head and thorax being yellowish 

 grey ; abdomen without the black patch. Fore wing yellowish 

 grey without black specks ; a maculate line beyond the post- 

 medial line ; a grey and dark patch beyond the subapical spots, 

 and hardly a trace of the patch at anal angle ; a dentate sub- 

 marginal line with the area beyond it reddish. Hind wing with 

 the black reduced to a submarginal medial patch. 



Larva pale brown, with numerous waved longitudinal black 

 lines, between which are series of black specks ; some red between 

 each pair of legs, and a black patch between each pair of prolegs ; 

 small paired dorsal prominences on 11th somite. 



Hab. Ceylon. Exp. 76 millim. 



2516. Ophiusa tirrhaca, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 172, fig. E. 

 Noctua vesta, Esp. Schmett. Eur. iv, pi. 141, fig. 1. 

 Noctua olivacea, Vill. Ent. Linn. ii. p. 270, pi. 5, fig. 9. 



Noctua auricularis, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. pi. 66, 



fig. 321. 

 Ophiodes hottentota, Guen. Noct. iii, 229. 

 Ophiodes separans, Wlk. Cat. xiv, p. 1357 ;. C. $ S. no. 2608. 



Head and thorax greenish yellow; abdomen orange. Fore wing 

 greenish yellow, with slightly darker striae; an indistinct out- 

 wardly-oblique antemedial line meeting a sinuous inwardly- 

 oblique postmedial line arising from a dark spot on the costa at 



