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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 473 colour ; abdomen whitish testaceous. Thorax with a black line in Fore wings with a black spear-shaped mark pointing inwards, on the interno-median interspace, with a black dot on the outside above it; these spots are wanting in some specimens ; four brown sinuous lines, the first antemedial, the second medial, almost meeting together on the binder margin, the second line elbowed outwards, opposite the orbicular stigma, which is represented by a brown dot; third line postmedial, commencing somewhat nearer the second line on the costa, curves widely round the reniform spot, which is small and brown-coloured ; this line bends inwardly, with one long tooth, which nearly touches the second line ; tbere is also a submarginal straightish line, which in some specimens is diffused, and in some dotted ; marginal points black ; fringe yellow. Hind wings dirty whitish, unmarked. Expanse of wings ly2,j inch. 199. PASIRA INSCITIA, n. sp. Bombay, July and August. General colour yellowish fawn-colour. Fore wings with four or five deep black spots, two representing the orbicular and reniform marks, one large one in the interno-median interspace, and one, sometimes two, in a straight line above it; all these spots are very prominent; marginal line brown, slightly dentated. Hind wings with faint medial, discal, and submarginal pale brownish thin bands, marginal line brown, slightly dentated. Expanse of wings I inch. 200. HERMINIA ORTHOSIANA, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 15.) Bombay. Pale reddish, covered with brown atoms. Fore wings with the reniform stigma represented by a brown dot on a white ground, lines brown, sinuous, upright, antemedial, medial, postmedial, and discal, rather close together, and edged with pale pinkish on the inner sides ; marginal points black, with white lunules on the inner side. Hind wings reddish testaceous, with a brown mark at the end of the cell. Expanse of wings lTV inch. 201. HERMINIA VELIFERA, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 17.) Poona, October. Pale pinkish white, powdered with black atoms and marked and streaked with black. The long palpi are nearly covered with black; thorax with a black band in front, and a black mark in the centre ; fore wings covered with black and grey irroratlons, thickly in the cell, at the end of which is a black spot ; a black streak below from the base running nearly the whole length of the wing; a black streak on the hinder margin, and between these streaks are other black fainter streaks and lines ; there are also some submarginal black streaks ; fringe brown. Hind wings pinkish grey, the colour formed |