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Show 1885.] OF B O M B A Y A N D T H E DECCAN. 295 60. SPILARCTIA CONFUSA. Spilarctia confusa, Butler, 111. Typ. Lep. Het. B. M. pi. 85. f. 13. Bombay, September, October, and November. 61. SPILARCTIA QUADRIRAMOSA. Euprepia quadriramosa, Kollar, in Hiigel's Kaschmir, 468, 6. Sattara, November. 62. SPILOSOMA MONA, n. sp. (Plate XX. figs. 3 3, 4 $ .) Mahableshwur, May. 3 2 • Pale yellowish testaceous, hind wing lighter than the fore wing ; abdomen deep chrome-yellow, with a line of black spots down the centre, on each segment, beneath, wings and body paler yellowish testaceous; coxae bright crimson above, tibiae black above, both pale testaceous beneath ; tarsi deep black ; fore wings above with three rows of black dots placed in pairs, first row before the middle, which in the male is composed of only three dots and in the female of six ; second beyond the middle, third submarginal. Hind wing with the entire cell black in the female, black only at its end in the male, and with a discal and submarginal black macular band, the latter the deeper, and both bands deeper and more regular in the female than in the male ; underside, all the wings with the cells black, the male having the black only at the end of the cell in the hind wing, and with two wavy, black, deep macular bands across both wings, the first medial, the second discal. Expanse of wings l^j- inch. 63. ALOPE RICINI. Noctua ricini, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, p. 473 (1793). Poona, June, July, and August ; Sattara, September; Matheran, May ; Ahmednugger, November. Larvae feed on Ricinus communis; they had long brownish hairs ; length 1| inch ; larval stage 24 days; pupal stage 21 days. 64. ALOPE CLAVATUS, n. sp. Poona, October ; Mahableshwur, May ; Bombay, July, September, and October. 6* 2 • Head, thorax, and fore wings brown ; fore wings crossed by several macular bands of a darker shade ; hind wings and abdomen yellow, the latter with black macular bands above and belov; and also in the sides ; hind wing with the costa and outer margin blackish brown> and with three macular bands of the same colour ; below, the wings are coloured and marked exactly as above ; antennae and legs blackish brown, the latter with the knees and tips yellow. Expanse of wings , 3 l-ft- m c n> $ 2r<v m c h* 65. PHISSAMA TRANSIENS. Spilosoma transiens, Walker, iii. 675. Belgaum. & 20* |
