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Show 1886.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM WESTERN INDIA. 387 142. CHILENA SIMILIS ? Chilena similis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. v. p. 1071. n. 1 (1855). d 2, Campbellpore, from cocoon, July 1885. The pair forwarded to m e are very large for this species, but, so far as can be judged from the much rubbed and frayed specimens, there appears to be no difference of pattern. 143. MEGASOMA VENUSTUM. 2 . Megasoma venustum, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. vi. p. 1449. n. 6 (1855). 2, Campbellpore, 20th July, 1885. MuSTILIID^E. 144. M U S T I L I A C O L U M B A R I S , sp. n. (Plate X X X V . fig. 7.) Pale sandy greyish brown ; primaries crossed by two dark greyish lines, the inner one very irregularly sinuated, commencing in a brown costal streak, the second regular, oblique, from inner margin to apex; a brown patch at second third of costa and one or two diffused spots on outer border ; a black spot at end of cell: secondaries with one irregularly angulated line beyond the middle; costal area whitish ; external area dusky ; a black dot at end of cell: head white : under surface uniform pale sandy brown, reddish towards outer margin, a single straight grey line across the wings. Expanse of wings 61 millim. Murree, 13th August, 1S85. 145. CALIGULA SIMLA. Saturnia simla, Westwood, Cat. Orient. Ent. p. 41, pi. 20. fig. 1. Murree, August 1885. One specimen is labelled as " from chrysalis said to have come from the snows, Cashmere." All the specimens arrived in a more or less shattered condition. N OTODONTID.E. 146. I C H T H Y U R A C U P R E A T A , sp. n. Brownish or dust-grey ; primaries darker than secondaries and varied with irregular bands of pale reddish cupreous ; the wings crossed by whitish lines forming in large irregular characters the letters V B (left-hand wing); a submarginal series of unequal dust-grey spots is left between the cupreous bands on the disk ; secondaries pale towards the base, the costa white; thorax dark grey-brown : under surface pale and without markings. Expanse of wings 28 millim. Campbellpore, 26th July, 1885. DREPANULID^E. 147. ARGYRIA CINEREA, sp. n. (Plate XXXV. fig. 8.) Pale dove-grey ; primaries darker in the centre ; all the wings |