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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 469 174. SELENIS SEMILUX. Selenis semilux, Walker, xxxiii. 1069. Bombay. 175. MESTLETA ABRUPTA. Mestleta abrupta, Walker, xxxiii. 830. Bombay. 176. DURDARA FENESTRATA. Durdara fenestrata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 27, pi. 6. fig. 6. Bombay, October. 177. DURDARA ZONULA, II. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 12.) Bombay. Brown, suffused with yellowish grey, and here and there with pink ; both wings crossed by innumerable dark-brown, very distinct striae ; fore wings with the costa yellowish, a patch of four semidiaphanous spots below the end of the cell, three in a row, and a large one below, with the upper part partly obscured by a yellowish coloration and a brown line, a diffused pinkish patch above these spots; below, the ground-colour of the wings is pale yellowish, with the brown striations standing out very distinctly. Expanse of wings T 9y inch. 178. GESOMIA GEMMA, n. sp. Poona, September and October. Very plentiful. Antennae, palpi, head, and thorax pale reddish yellow ; fore wings in some specimens pinkish grey, in some reddish yellow, irrorated with brown atoms, with antemedial, medial, and postmedial sinuous bands, pale reddish brown ; reniform represented by a brown dot on a pinkish ground; hind wings pale pinkish testaceous, with a medial pale brown line ; fringe of both wings reddish, interrupted with brown. This insect varies much in colour ; some are almost pure chrome-yellow, with the markings very faint, some of them invisible ; in others the markiugs are very distinct; and the brown irrorations cover the outer part of the wing, giving the wing a brown colour, and altogether altering the appearance of the insect. Expanse of wings T 9y inch. AMPHIGONID^E. 179. L A C E R A CAPELLA. Lacera capella, Guene'e, Noct. iii. 337, 1802. Poona; Bombay, October. 180. AMPHIGONIA HEPATIZANS. Amphigonia hepatizans, Gue'ne'e, Noct. iii. 338, 1805. Bombay, September. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1885, No. XXXI. 31 |