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Show 472 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [May 5, partly dentated, sinuous, white lines, inwardly margined with brown marginal line whitish ; marginal points luuular, black, marked on the inside with whitish. Hind wings unmarked, marginal line brown. Under side-fore wings smoky grey, with the four costal subapical spots, and with a larger white subcostal spot, near the apex ; hinder margin pale grey: hind wings pale grey, with a brown spot at the end of the cell, and with medial and discal brownish thin bands. Expanse of wings I fa inch. 195. HYPENA SPECULALIS, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 8.) Bombay, October. Pale greyish red, dotted aud striated with brownish ; orbicular represented by a minute white dot margined with brown ; a black spot on the hinder margin, near the angle ; a whitish postmedial straight line, inwardly margined with grey, commencing on the inner side of the spot; marginal points black : hind wings smoky grey, irrorated and striated like the fore wings, with black marginal points ; otherwise unmarked. Expanse of wings ly2y inch. Closely allied to //. obaceralis, Walker. 196. HYPENA VECORDIALIS, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 10.) Bombay. Reddish grey, covered with brown atoms, some brown marks on the costa ; a postmedial, perfectly straight, double black line, some black dots on the space between this line and the outer margin; marginal points black : hind wing unmarked ; marginal line brown ; fringe of both interlined-grey, pinkish white, and grey. Expanse of wings lT 2y inch. HERMINIIDJE. 197. PASIRA .ENIGMATICA, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 11.) Poona, December; Bombay, September. Palpi and head reddish ; antennae, thorax, and fore wings brown ; abdomen testaceous ; thorax with a black band in front. Fore wings with black sinuous lines-one subbasal incomplete, one antemedial upright, and a third, very much curved in the disk, and terminating on the hinder margin on the inner side of a deep black spot on the interno-median interspace, with a black dot on the outer side above it; in some examples there is another black dot on the inner side below it, and in some examples there is also a black spot on the hinder margin near the base. Hind wings testaceous, paler towards the base; marginal line brown ; fringe of both wings reddish. The male has a reddish anal tuft. Expanse of wings lT 2y inch. 198. PASIRA RUSSA, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 13.) Poona ; Bombay, August, September, and October. Antennae, palpi, head, thorax, and fore wings pale yellowish fawn- |