OPHIDERES. 559 



Corycia, Hubn. Verz. p. 265. 

 Adris, Moore, Trans. Z. S. xi, p. 69 (1881). 

 Khadira, Moore, Trans. Z. S. xi, p. 69. 

 Purbia, Moore, Trans. Z. S. xi, p. 70. 

 Argadesa, Moore, Trans. Z. 8. xi, p. 74. 



Type, 0. fullonica, Linn. 



Range. Throughout the tropical zone. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint thickened and reaching vertex of head, 

 the 3rd blunt and naked ; antennae minutely ciliated in male ; 

 metathorax with slight tufts ; abdomen clothed with coarse hair on 

 dorsum ; tibiae not spined and clothed with long hair. Fore wing 

 with the costa arched; the apex acute; the inner margin lobed 

 and with tufts of hair near base and at outer angle. 



Larvce with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, the first pair rudi- 

 mentary. 



Sect. I. {Mamas). Palpi with the 2nd joint very short and not 

 spatulate. Pore wing with the outer margin straight ; the 

 cilia non-crenulate. 



2637. Ophideres salaminia, Fair. Ent. Syst. iii, 2, p. 17 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 161, fig. 1, a, b (larva) ; C. $ S. no. 2478. 



Head and collar plum-colour ; thorax green, the metathoracic 

 tufts and abdomen orange. Pore wing golden green ; a broad 

 cream-coloured costal fascia from near base of inner margin to apex, 

 striated with pale red and turning to green at costa; a cream- 

 coloured marginal band ; a curved red streak below vein 2. Hind 

 wing orange, with large black lunule beyond lower angle of cell ; a 

 black marginal band with cilial whitish spots from costa to vein 2. 

 Underside of fore wing fuscous, orange at base, and with broad 

 whitish postmedial band not reaching costa or inner margin ; the 

 cilia whitish. 



Larva dark purplish grey with a few whitish specks ; the 4th, 

 5th, and 6th somites with small yellowish subdorsal spots, beneath 

 which, on 5th and 6th somites, is a red-ringed black ocellus with 

 whitish pupil ; 11th somite with a conical reddish dorsal tubercle. 

 Before changing to pupa the colour becomes olive-brown with dark 

 specks ; a pale lateral fascia on medial somites and purplish fascia 

 from the tubercle to last abdominal proleg. Pood-plant, Menisper- 

 mum. 



Hah. Madagascar ; Pormosa ; throughout the Oriental region to 

 Australia and Piji. Exp. 80-104 millim. 



Sect. II. Palpi with the 3rd joint long and spatulate at 

 extremity. 



A. Fore wing with the apex not produced; the outer margin rounded. 

 a. Fore wing ivith the cilia non-crenulate. 



2638. Ophideres ancilla, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 149, F ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii. pi. 161, fig. 3, a, b (larva) ; C. f S. no. 2475. 



