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Show 146 LIEUT.-COL. C. S W I N H O E O N T H E LEPIDOPTERA [Feb. 3, 145. DELCHINA THERMODUSA, n. sp. Matheran, November and December. Allied to D. teredon, Felder, and D. sarpedon, Linn. The green band across the middle of the wings is much broader in the centre, touching the discoidal cell at the first median nervule, and fining upwards and downwards quite suddenly ; the band on the fore wing being also composed of eight pieces instead of nine, as in the other two species, the first apical spot being absent. Hind wing with the tail produced as in D. teredon. Underside differs from both on the hind wing in the very narrow subbasal black latitudinal streak margining the green band, in the absence of the black suffusion in the costal and subcostal interspaces, and in the black and red space at the end of the cell being very limited and pushed out by the green band, and in the general coloration of both wings being very much paler. These characteristics are identical in the four specimens in my collection. Expanse of wings 3T 5 7 inches. In coll. C. Swinhoe. HESPERIID.E. 146. SARANGESA PURENDRA. Pyrgus purendra, Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i. p. 250. Bombay, August to December. 147. PYRGUS GALBA. Hesperia galba, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 352 (1793). Poona, January and March ; Bombay, August. 148. AMPITTIA CORAS. Pap. coras, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 31. fig. F (1775). Bombay, July to October. 149. ASTICTOPTERUS STELLIFER, Butler. Astictopterus stellifer, Butler, Trans. Linn. Soc. 1879, p. 555. Poona, April; Bombay, November. 150. UDASPES FOLUS. Pap.folus, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 354. fig. II (1782). Poona, Ahmednuggur, Bombay. I have received it at different times from all these places, but never succeeded in capturing one myself, and consequently no date is recorded. 151. PLESIONEURA LEUCOCERA. Hesperia leucocera, Kollar, Hugel's Kasch. iv. 2, p. 454, pi. 18. fig. 3. Bombay, September. 152. PLESIONEURA AMBAREESA. P. ambareesa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 788. Mahableshwur, Mav. |