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Show 1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 411 a very indistinct grey mark at the end of the cell; marginal line brown, fringe the same colour as the wing ; abdomen greyish brown. Underside : wings same colour as the hind wings above; fore wings suffused with brown on the costal and apical portions; hind wings also slightly suffused with pale brownish on the costal portion, with an indistinct grey mark at the end of the cell; body and legs grey ; tarsi with yellowish bands. Expanse of wings T 9g- inch. Hab. Hydrabad and Kipra, Lower Sind. Four examples taken. Unlike any previously described species. NOCTUIDJE. SPOELOTIS SINCERA, n. sp. Male and female. Antennas brownish ; palpi pale sandy grey, black at the sides ; top of head whitish; body and fore wings of a bright sandy fawn-colour ; the divisions of the collar, tegulae, &c. on the thorax are very prominent; the male is smaller than the female, and the whole of the thorax is more whitish, whereas in the female the whitish is only on the top of the head, otherwise they are identical; fore wings very minutely irrorated with brownish-grey atoms, orbicular and reniform minute, greyish, claviform larger, ringed with grey, but all very indistinct; three transverse very indistinct greyish sinuous lines, first subbasal, hardly visible, second and third more distinct; antemedial and postmedial well separated ; fringe interlined. Hind wings whitish, sandy grey on the outer borders. Underside : wings much the same shade of colour as they are above, shining, the fore wing has a discal mark and some indistinct streaks towards the outer border, otherwise they are unmarked ; body and legs pale sandy fawn-colour. Expanse of wings, 3 ly-L, § ly^inch. Hab. Solun (Simla). One pair in excellent condition from the late Captain Reed's collection. From the allied 8. fraterna this species differs in the much browner colour of the fore wings, the ante- and postmedial sinuous lines being much less defined, the outer line being disposed nearer to the end of the cell than in S. fraterna ; the spot at end of the cell is also less defined and has no white border to it. OCHROPLEURA IGNOTA, n. Sp. Palpi, antennae, thorax, and fore wings chocolate-brown; palpi grey in front and at the tips ; top of head grey, collar dull ochreous, abdomen dull ochreous grey; fore wings with the colour paling slightly towards the outer margin, with a broad grey stripe on the costa from the base along two thirds of its length, touching the upper portions of the orbicular and reniform marks, which are formed of prominent grey ringlets ; the orbicular round, the reniform oblong, excavated on the outside, almost ear-shaped ; the rest of the costal border to the apex marked with five or six yellow 28* |