OLENE. — ENOME. 
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red-brown. Fore wing with a curved series of seven submarginal black spots. Hind wing 
black-brown. Abdomen brown, with a more or less pronounced red tinge. 
The differently coloured specimens were bred from similar larvfe. 
Olene* mendosa, Hiihn., var. basaliSj Wlk. (Plate CLX. fig. 2.) 
Antipha basalis, Wllc. Cat. iv. p. 806. 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Male. Differs from the typical form in having a large black patch at the base of the 
fore wing instead of a white one. 
Enomet moerens, Feld. (Plate CLX. fig. 1 & Plate CLXXVI. fig. 1 (larva).) 
Dasycliira moerens, Fdd. Heis. Nov. p. 3, pi. xcix. fig. 4, $ . 
Expanse, 1|, ? 2g- inches. 
Male. Fore wing olive-brown, crossed by a subbasal irregular waved double black band; 
another highly irregular antcmedian band ; a black-outlined reuiform spot at cud of cell ; a 
postmedial waved double black band, concave below the costa, then outwardly oblique to 
near the outer angle ; an irregular indistinct dentate submarginal black line ; some indistinct 
dark lunulate marginal marks with grey scales on them. Hind wing i-ich dark brown. 
Cilia of both wings chequered in two shades of brown. Underside ochreous brown ; fore 
wing with a smoky black patch filling the cell and extending beyond and below it ; two 
indistinct dark submarginal lines. Hind wing with a dark lunule at end of cell; costa smoky 
black ; two black submarginal bands, narrowing and less distinct towards anal angle. 
Female. Fore wing dark brown ; a broad purplish-grey medial band narrowiug towards 
inner margin, with waved brown lines near its inner and outer borders, and an ochreous- 
brown spot on it beyond the end of cell ; two indistinct lunulate submarginal purplish-grey 
lines. Hind wing dark brown, paler towards the base. Underside paler, greyish towards 
the outer margin, with an indistinct broad submarginal brown band on the fore wing, which 
on the hind wing is broader, with a narrow line before it. 
Larva (adult) . Dull black and hairy ; hinder somites with a median dorsal pale yellow 
stripe; on fourth to seventh somites a double compact dorsal tuft of yellowish-brown silky 
hair ; a blackish dorsal tuft on eleventh somite ; a lateral row of crimson linear spots. 
Feeds on Smilacc and Vitis. 
* Olene is a section of Basi/cJiira. 
t This is a section of Dasijchira. 
