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Show 414 COL. C. SWINHOE ON NEW [Nov. 5, close together; and a broad blackish discal band, sinuous inwardly, suffused outwardly towards the outer margin, and including a sinuous whitish line, a black spot in the centre of the antemedial line; orbicular represented by a black dot, reniform by a suffused large blackish spot, outer margin with black points, fringe steel- Sre.V-Hind wings white, a broad black outer border, attenuated hindwards, and without the usual anal whitish streak in the band: abdominal border suffused with grey, marginal line brown, marginal points black, fringe pure white. Underside greyish white ; tarsi brown, with whitish bands ; wings nearly white, with a broad blackish marginal band on each wing, diffused outwardly to greyish on fore wings, and to pure white on hind wings ; fringe and marginal points as above. Expanse of wings 2y2y inches. Hab. Rangoon, June 1888. One pair of this fine species received from Mr. Noble. This is a larger insect than P. quenavadi, the wings being comparatively longer; the fore wing has similarly disposed markings, but these are more widely separated. The hind wing is less quadrate in form, the outer margin more rounded, and the marginal black band is broader at its upper end. OPHIUSID^E. OPHIUSA TRIANGULATA, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 5.) Blackish brown, bands and lines white ; fore wings with a central erect band slightly contracted in its centre, and irrorated with black atoms ; from the lower extremity of this band on the hinder margin a thick line runs straight to the centre of the outer margin (but does not touch it), and is angled from thence straight to the costal margin, near to but a little apart from the central band, thus forming a complete and very prominent triangle; there is also a fine sinuous submarginal line from the hinder margin to the apex touching the elbow of the triangle ; the submarginal space is paler coloured, and many of the veins are streaked with white, especially so near the outer margin ; marginal festoon and points black ; cilia grey, interlined. Hind wings with a white fascia slightly before the middle, a thin white streak at the anal angle, and a thin white border; marginal line black ; cilia grey. Underside pale dirty greyish brown, with indistinct antemedial, medial, and postmedial grey bands, a submarginal sinuous pale line ; outer margin thinly pale greyish ; marginal festoon and points black ; cilia grey. Expanse of wings ly8^ inch. Hub. Karachi, July 1886. One perfect example taken. Nearly allied to Ophiusa mirabilis, Romanoff, M e m . Ldp. ii. pi. 4. fig. 5 (1885), from Transcaucasia. |
