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Show 466 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [May 5, under the spot and the other subapical; the corresponding portion of the fringe is also pure white, the rest brown, with a pinkish-white marginal line to that portion of the wing. Underside white, with medial and discal black bands on both wings. Expanse of wings 2 j \ inches. This may be the female of the one preceding; but they were taken more than a hundred miles apart from each other, and have many points of great difference. 151. OPHISMA L^ETABILIS. Ophisma latabilis, Guenee, Noct. iii. 241, 1657. Poona, July ; Bombay, October. 152. OPHISMA MATURATA. Ophisma maturata, Walker, xiv. 1382. Bombay. 153. OPHIUSA CRAMERI. Ophiusa cramerii, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 177 (1885). Phalana achatina, Cram, (nee Sulzer), Pap. Exot. iii. 171, pi. 288. fig. A . Sattara, September ; Khandalla, December ; Poona, September ; Bombay, July and November. 154. OPHIUSA OLYMPIA, n. sp. Poona, October ; Bombay, July and August. Very common. Antennae and palpi grey, head and throat reddish olive-brown ; abdomen paler; fore wings with the inner two thirds dark olive-brown, nearly black, with a medial white band, not so broad as in O. albovitta, Guenee, and much narrower in the male than in the female ; this band is thinly irrorated with red and black atoms; the outer margin of the black part is white and dentated in three places, this is followed by a pale olive-grey space which is margined by an acutely dentated whitish line commencing at the apex with two black marks and coming straight dowrn to the hinder angle; the space between this line and the outer margin is pale grey ; marginal line brown, with black points. Hind wing black with an antemedial white band, and a grey space on the outer margin, cut straight from the black, from near the apex to the anal angle; marginal line black ; fringe of both wings interlined, purplish-white, grey, and purplish-white. Expanse of wings ly9^- inch. 155. OPHIUSA ALBIVITTA. Ophiusa albivitta, Guenee, Noct. iii. 271, 1707. Bombay, June and August. 156. OPHIUSA CONFICIENS. Ophiusa conficiens, Walker, xiv. 1432 Bombay. |