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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 297 LlPARID^E. 74. OLENE MENDOSA. Olene mendosa, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. iii. 19, 147, f. 293, 294. Poona, November. 75. OLENE OLEARIA, n. sp. (Plate XX. figs. 14 3, 15 $ .) Poona, J i ly and December. 6* • Glossy olive-brown, whitish beneath ; antennae brown, deeply pectinated ; abdomen with a whitish raised spot above the anal tuft; thorax orange in front. Fore wings with an embossed orange spot near the base; all the veins brown; with some pale longitudinal streaks in the interspaces, especially so near the apex, giving the whole wing the appearance of a mass of longitudinal streaks from base to outer border, with the disk of the wing the darkest part of it. Hind wings with some few faint streaks, but altogether paler than the fore wings. 2 • Pale testaceous, with a slight reddish-yellow tinge ; fore wings longitudinally streaked with brown throughout the centre of it; hind wings whitish, slightly streaked with brown in the centre. Underside paler, with a subapical longitudinal brown streak in the fore wings and the pale brown streaks in the hind wings showing through. Expanse of wings, 3 ly3^ inch, $ ly6^ inch. 76. OLENE FUSIFORMIS. (Plate XX. fig. 8 6"-) $. Nioda fusiformis, Walker, v. p. 1070. Poona, September ; Bombay, November. 3. Antennas deeply pectinated. Antennae, thorax, and fore wings brown ; abdomen testaceous ; head yellowish. Fore wings with the outer margin paler, an embossed yellowish spot at the base ; basal, median, and outer thin latitudinal lines black and indistinct, first nearly straight, second curved inwardly, third sinuous and toothed; hind wings whitish. Underside whitish, darkest towards the centre of the fore wings. Expanse of wings 1T 4Q inch. At Poona Mr. Taplin took the larvae on Zisiphus jujuba ; Major Pitcher, Assistant Superintendent of Agriculture N. W . P., sent me some he found feeding on imported New Orleans cotton-plants; the Poona larvae were 25 days feeding and became from 1 to \\ inch in length before turning; pupal stage 9 to 15 days. 77. PORTHESIA MARGINALIS. Euproctis marginalis, Walker, vii. p. 1731. Poona, September to April, very common. 78. EUPROCTIS DECUSSATA. Euproctis decussata, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877* p. 437. Poona, February ; Bombay, September and December. |
