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Show 470 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [May 5, FoCILIID^E. 181. M A T E L L A C A D U C A , n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 9, $ .) Poona, July. Female. Allied to M. partkipalis. Pale dull chrome-yellow; fore part of the thorax slightly reddish ; fore wings with the orbicular and reniform marks white, semidiaphanous, thinly outlined with pale brown ; the former small, round ; the latter larger, elongated and outwardly excavated ; lines, brownish, sinuous, an antemedial line on the fore wings, only a postmedial across both wings, also a medial less distiuct slightly zigzag line across both wings, passing just in front of the reniform stigma on the fore wing, marginal line slightly waved ; underside paler, outer and medial lines well marked, inner line of fore wing absent. Expanse of wings lT 4j inch. 182. DAXATA TANTILLA, n. sp. Bombay, September. Above, antennas, palpi, head, thorax, and all the wings of a dark uniform brown ; abdomen slightly paler, both wings crossed by two much sinuated blackish lines, commencing together about the centre of the hinder margin of the fore wings, gradually separating and terminating on the costa of the fore wings, one before and the other beyond the middle; fore wings with another line submarginal, sinuous, and faintly indicated, beyond which the border of the wing is of a paler colour ; costa with black and yellow spots; outer marginal lines of both wings black, minutely denticulated, fringe blackish brown, underside whitish. Expanse of wings fa inch. 183. R H ^ S E N A OBLIQUIFASCIATA. Rhasena obliquifasciata, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk. p. 183. Poona. PLATYDID^E. 184. EPISPARIS SIGNATA. Episparis signata, Walker, xxxiii. 1032. Poona; Bombay, November. IlYPENIDiE. 185. DlCHROMIA OROSIALIS. Phalana-Noctua orosip, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. 149, pi. 275. fig. D. Dichromia orosialis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. 18, 7. Poona, July. 186. DICHROMIA PULLATA. Dichromia pullata, Moore, Lep. Ceylon, iii. p. 221. Bombay, September. |