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Show 1888.] FROM W E S T E R N INDIA. 325 flattened oval grey spots is preceded on the costa by a single larger one, and terminates on the inner margin in a large irregular blotch of fulvous and bluish grey ; hind margin with a series of grey lunules, preceded by a few scattered grey dots, which sometimes coalesce a little below the centre into a small marginal blotch. Hind wings white, with grey marginal lunules ; a fulvous and grey blotch at the anal angle, like that on the fore wing, and a sub-marginal row of small grey dots, one on each vein ; sometimes there is a faint central fascia, most pronounced on either margin. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, spotted with black. Expanse of wings 38-40 millim. A pair from Thundiani and Kala Pani, March and April, 1887. The species is intermediate between A. ulmata and A. pusilla, Butler, from Japan ; smaller than ulmata, and paler than both. 144. ABRAXAS DIVERSICOLOR, sp. n. (Nos. 119, 123.) Fore wings grey, with a faint ochreous tinge in certain lights, thickly dusted with fine black atoms, the costa itself with fine black streaks ; a blackish curved line before the middle, and a black serrated, and slightly curved line beyond the middle, both darkest at their extremities; a dark spot on the costa between them appears to be the commencement of a faint ochreous central line, which approaches the outer line on the inner margin ; a black linear central spot ; submarginal line edged internally with dark, and externally with whitish ; towards the costa with four blackish blotches internally and a white border externally ; a series of marginal black dots ; fringes paler. Hind wings pale fuscous, with faint indications of two curved lines, one in the centre, the other submarginal: the latter edged with paler, and containing three darker patches, one at each angle and one in the middle ; fringes whitish. Head, thorax, and abdomen grey. Underside : fore wing dull smoky fuscous, darker towards the hind margin; the costa dotted black and ochreous ; the central line showing dark, and the submarginal ochreous: hind wing ochreous, speckled with darker, with the central band distinct, and the sub-marginal scarcely visible. Expairse of wings 38 millim. One male and two females, from Thundiani, August 15, 1886. Unlike any other Abraxas, but agreeing both in neuration and the structure of the palpi and antennae. 145. LIGDIA COCTATA. (No. 58.) Ligclia coctata, Gn. Phal. ii. p. 210. Melanippe restituta, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxv. p. 129". One female and one male, from Kali Pani and Campbellpore; the latter caught July 16, 1886, the former April 28, 1887. Doubtfully distinct from the European L. adustata. Guenee says, " fore wings more elongated, and produced at the apex, the outer margin straight, the fascia less marbled ; hind wings with the outer margin less bent, and the fascia more evenly dentate." P R O C . Z O O L . Soc-1888, No. XXIII. 23 |