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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 291 front on the thorax, a central row of gold spots on the abdomen, one on each segment; fore wings with an interior hyaline band divided into four by the veins, first within the cell and gradually widening to the hinder margin, and an outer band of the same kind divided by the veins into five parts, commencing at the costa and terminating on the second median nervule, the subcostal spot much the smallest. Hind wings with a central hyaline patch, divided into five parts by the veins. Underside, wings, body, and legs smoky brown. Expanse of wings lyL inch. 32. DYSAUXES INDICA. Dysauxes indica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 390. Bombay, July. DEBOS, gen. nov. Male: fore wing elongated, narrow, costa slightly arched at base, apex hardly acute, exterior margin slightly oblique, posterior margin slightly convex towards the base ; cell extending two thirds of the length ; subcostals at equal distances apart, first branch emitted at nearly one fourth before end of cell, second forked at one half its length, fourth forked at three fifths ; discocellular bent; radials from the angles, a short slender discoidal veinlet emitted within the cell from the middle ; the middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at one fifth before the end ; submedian straight. Hind wing rather long, narrow ; exterior margin very oblique, recurved, abdominal margin fringed, cell extending half the length ; costal vein straight, foiked at three fifths its length ; two subcostals on a foot-stalk one fourth beyond the cell; discocellular outwardly oblique, convex, radial from the middle, a slender discoidal veinlet emitted within the cell; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at one third; submedirm and internal vein straight. Body short, moderately stout; top of head laxly clothed; abdomen slightly tufted at the apex; palpi obliquely ascending, slender, cylindrical, laxly squamose, not reaching to level of the eyes, third joint short, pointed; antennae recurved from the base, broadly pectinated on one side only, the branches also ciliated and broadest in the middle, minutely ciliated on the other side towards the base; legs moderately stout, femora and tibiae laxly squamose, middle tibiae with two, and hind tibiae with four short spurs. 33. DEBOS IRATUS, n. sp. (Plate XX. fig. 7.) 3, above, head, fore part of thorax and antennae chrome-yellow, branches of antennae reddish, remainder of body and both wings pale purple-brown, quite unmarked. Underside, wings of same colour, with some blackish marks in the outer spaces near the apex of fore wings ; palpi, body, and legs reddish. Expanse of wings -$-$ inch. |
