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Show 302 LIEUT.-COL. c. S W I N H O E O N T H E LEPIDOPTERA [M 108. C O R M A ERNESTINA, n. sp. (Plate X X . fig. 2 3-) Bombay, August and September. 3 2 • Antennae, head, thorax, and fore wings brownish grey, with a faint flesh-coloured tinge. A brownish streak along the subcostal nervure ; another along the medial nervure, and another along the hinder margin; hind wings and abdomen greyish white, cilia white ; underside paler, unmarked; the hind wings and body pure white. Expanse of wings 2T 1 Trinches. 109. PHALERA BOBI, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 6.) Bombay, September. Allied to Phalera raya, Moore, from Darjiling. Fore wing glistening greyish brown, marked very much as in P. raya, but there is a deep black band on the basal third of the hinder margin, and the outer double sinuous line from the apical patch blackens into a diffused patch on the hinder margin ; eyes and fore part of the head deep black, top of the head yellowish white; antennae and thorax dark brown ; sides of the thorax white; abdomen yellowish, with brown bands on each segment; hind wing above and both wings below soot-brown. Expanse of wings 4-^ inches. BOMBYCIDJE. 110. TRILOCHA VARIANS. Naprepa varians, Walker, vii. p. 1153. Poona, August; Sattara, June ; Bombay, September to December. The male is yellowish fawn-colour ; Mr. Moore's drawing in pi. xi. A. f. 6, vol. ii. Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C , fairly represents the markings of this sex ; but the general coloration is too dark ; the female is pale mouse-colour with a slight reddish tint on the hind wings, the markings showing very faintly, often quite obsolete. 111. THIACIDES POSTICA. (Plate XXL figs. 1, la larva, 2$.) Thiacides postica, Walker, v. p. 1028. Bombay, September to November, common. Larva feed on Ricinus communis ; the larva covered the walls of my garden in October ; I put a number into a breeding-cage ; two turned into pupae on the 24th idem, and the moths emerged on the 20th December following ; all the other larvae hybernated at the end of October, and I took them on board ship in that state on the 6th of March following ; but the cold in the Red Sea killed them all. LlMACODIDjE. 112. NATADA VELUTINA. Gastroparcha velutina, Kollar, Kasch. von Hiigel, p. 473, 3. Poona, July. |
