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Show 1890.] NEW MOTHS FROM INDIA. 391 I have seen no males from S. India, but if thev should be found to agree with the Ceylon species, then the name of puella must be applied to this form, and the Himalayan insect, which I have called puella, would take the name oi peregrina. Moore has figured in Cat. E. I. C. p. 351, t. 13, the larva and pupa of a Javan species under the name of puella; but I have seen none from that island, though there are three females from Sumatra in Dr. Staudinger's collection which may be a form of it. These, however, have the marginal band very faint, and the 3rd band convex instead of concave. b. 6* with 2 black or pinkish-brown spots and a red dash between 2nd and 3rd bands, which are bent inwards and towards each other. 3. BIZONE HAMATA, Wk. Cat. ii. p. 549 (1854); Leech, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 604. ? B. puella, Fixsen (nee Drury), Rom. Mem. iii. p. 332. The type from Shanghai agrees with Japanese specimens. It occurs also in Central China, and has been recorded from Hong Kong, though this may be another species. 4. BIZONE FASCIOLA, Leech, MS. This species is separated from B. hamata by the 2nd and 3rd bands being straighter, and the lower black spot in the male being placed outside the upper one, not straight below it as in B. hamata. It has been taken at Ichang and Changyang, in Central Chiua by Mr. Pratt. 5. BIZONE INCONCLUSA, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc.., Zool. vi. p. 120, c. (1862). This species, which I have seen from Borneo and Sumatra, seems intermediate between B. hamata and the next species ; but I have not seen a sufficient number of both sexes to be able to form an opinion. Walker describes it as distinct from the next by the difference in the discal dots, shorter costal fringe, and narrower bands. The lobe below the costa is single, not double as in conclusa. 6. BIZONE CONCLUSA, Walk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 120, S (1862). lYar.javanica, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1877, p. 337. This species occurs in Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and the island of Nias, and is distinguished from the last by tbe larger costal fold, broader red bands, of which the 2nd is edged inwardly, the 3rd outwardly, with black. The hind wing of B. conclusa is fawn-colour ; Walker says tinged with pale yellow, perhaps this is faded. That of B.javanica is pink. If this is constant, the species might very well be separated, but I have seen but few specimens of either. 7. BIZONE PLATENI, n. sp. (?). Allied to B. conclusa, Wk., var. javanica, Butl., but has not the 27* |