558 



NOCTTTID^. 



2636. Phyllodes consobrina, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 57, pi. 28, fig. 2 ; 

 C. # 8. no. 2485. 

 Phyllodes perspicillator, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 120. 

 Phyllodes maligera, Butl. Ent. Mo. Mag. xx, p." 138 ; C. $ S. 



no. 2487. 

 Phyllodes roseigera, Butl. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 164 ; C.fyS. no. 2489. 



Head and thorax fuscous, with a purple bloom ; abdomen blue- 

 black. Fore wing fuscous brown, with a purplish gloss and irrorated 

 with ochreous scales ; the orbicular a brown speck ; an S -shaped 

 brown mark on discocellulars, its centre outlined with red-brown, 

 its edges brown, and two white marks on it near its lower 

 angle ; an oblique ochreous fascia from apex to below angle of cell, 

 whence it is bent down to inner margin ; a large grey-brown patch 

 usually present between the fascia and outer angle, with pale stria3 

 on it. Hind wing blue-black ; a large crimson patch with white 

 centre at anal angle. Underside striated with white and with 

 whitish between the veins of the fore wing. 



•iiliilis 



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Fig. 316. — Phy lodes consobrina, <$ . \. 



The form roseigera, from the Andamans, has hardly a trace o£ 

 white on the crimson patch. 



Hob. Throughout N.E. India ; Burma ; Andamans ; Ceylon. 

 Exp. 124-142 millim. 



Genus OPHIDERES. 



Ophideres, Boisd. Faun. Ent. Madag., Lep. p. 99 (1833). 

 Trisophaes, Hilbn. Verz. p. 263 (1818), non descr. 

 Maenas, Hubn. Verz. p. 264. 

 Rhytia, Hubn. Verz. p. 264. 

 Othreis, Hubn. Verz. p. 264. 



