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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 299 88. AROA SAGRARA, n. sp. (Plate XX. fig. 13 3.) Belgaum. 6* • Chocolate-brown, paler, with a tinge of yellow beneath ; head above dark brown, palpi and cilia pale rosy brown above and beneath ; with the outer third of wings dark, caused by all the outer veins being darker than the general colour. Expanse of wings l^j inch. 89. AROA CLARA, n. sp. (Plate XX. figs. 9d", 10$.) Bombay, September and October. Allied to Aroa pyrrhochroma, Walker. 3 '• chestnut red, outer half of fore wings and outer third of hind wings smoky black, as are also the deeply pectinated antennae ; fringe red; head, body, and legs chestnut-red ; below, the wings are the same as they are above. 5 : antennae ciliated ; body thick, cylindrical, extending somewhat beyond the wings ; wings very slightly clothed, semidiaphanous ; head, body, legs, and wings pale reddish ; quite unmarked. Expanse of wings, 3 1^, 2 1T3O incn- 90. L<ELIA PALLIDA. Lcelia pallida, Moore, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1884, p. 358. Bombay, October. 91. CHARNIDAS TESTACEA. Cycnia testacea, Walker, iii. p. 683. Bombay, November. 92. CHARNIDAS ROTUNDATA. Lacida rotundata, Walker, iv. p. 802. Poona, July and October. 93. GYN^EPHORA XERAMPELINA, n. sp. (Plate XXI. figs. 8 3, 9$.) Poona, September and October. 3 pale reddish brown, clearer and redder beneath ; antennae deeply pectinated beneath. $ pale brown, with no reddish in the coloration, and with the abdomen thick and extending for one third beyond the wino-s. o* $ , fore wings with a diffuse lunular brown mark at the end of the cell, basal half of wing suffused with brown, outer nervules of the same colour, with a brown, suffused, inwardly curved, submarginal band, ending in a small brown patch in the interno-median interspace ; hind wings with a slightly darker shade towards the outer border. Underside with the discal area of all the wings slightly darker, otherwise unmarked. Expanse of wings, 3 l-j^, $ l ^ inch. Congeneric with and closely allied to the European Gynaphora selenitica. |