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Show 456 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [May 5, spots running through it ; marginal points black, distinct. wings grey ; fringe whitish. Expanse of wings T 6 ¥ inch. 68. ACONTIA OPELLA, n. sp. (Plate XXVII. fig. 16.) Poona, October. Antennae brown ; head brown, with a white band on each side in front of the eyes; body brown. Fore wings with the basal third brown, margined with a whitish line, then a black band, followed by a white line and a brown line against each other, opening out and passing to the costa, one on each side of the reniform stigma, which is represented by a brown streak on a whitish-grey ground ; these marks are followed by a uniform grey band, a brown band which expands on the costa, a reddish-grey line, which also expands on the costa, filling up the apical space ; a thick blackish-brown band on the lower two thirds of the outer margin, margined inwardly with deep black ; a deep black marginal line ; fringe long, greyish-brown, with yellowish markings. Hind wings pale soot-colour, with four or five whitish spots at the apex. Expanse of wings y^ inch. 69. ACONTIA PULLA, n. sp. (Plate XXVII. fig. 15.) Poona, October and November. Body and fore wings pale reddish-brown; fore wings with the central portion suffused with dark brown, across which are two sinuous lines, one antemedial, the other postmedial; costa and apex with brown marks ; marginal line reddish ; marginal points brown ; fringe pale reddish. Hind wings soot-brown ; fringe pale reddish. Expanse of wings yy inch. 70. MARIMATHA PUR A, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 16.) Poona, October. Greyish milky-white ; head and thorax with some deep black speckles, a reddish patch at apex of fore wing, otherwise quite unmarked ; fringe reddish. It is, however, a variable species. In one example there are no speckles on the head and thorax ; in another there are some deep black speckles in a cluster in the centre of the fore wing, and in another the general colour is slightly reddish. Expanse of wings T 9y inch. 7l. PROTHEODES VEPRECOLA, n. sp. Poona, September and October. Very plentiful. Antennae, palpi, head, thorax, and fore wings brown; abdomen and hind wing whitish testaceous ; fore wing with orbicular and reniform marks whitish, rather indistinct; basal, antemedial, post-medial, and submarginal whitish, very indistinct waved lines, often obsolete ; some brown flecks on the wing, here and there ; fringe blackish ; hind wings unmarked ; underside whitish shining, unmarked. Expanse of wings T 8y inch. |