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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 475 209. APPHADANA RUBICUNDULA, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 2.) Bombay. Body brown. Fore wings pale pinkish white, with brown lines and bands, and brown atoms on the clear spaces; a basal and a sub-basal upright, sinuous line, the space from the base to the middle of these lines being suffused with brown ; a medial diffuse band, with a dentated double line running up it, expanding in the centre, and meeting again on the costa, half the outer dentated line being in the pinkish-white coloured part of the wing ; marginal third brown, with a black inner sinuous border ; between this border and the medial dentated line is another pale, diffuse, interrupted band ; a dark brown zigzag submarginal line, within the brown margin; marginal line brown, sinuous; marginal points black, fringe brown. Hind wings testaceous, with faint brown medial, discal, and submarginal lines; marginal line brown, sinuous; fringe reddish-brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 210. APPHADANA FESTINA, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 3.) Bombay. Antennae, palpi, head, thorax, and fore wings brown, hind wings and abdomen paler. Fore wings with subbasal, medial, and post-medial sinuous lines, the last two nearly meeting on the hinder margin near the centre, the first and last line edged with whitish inwardly, the middle line edged with whitish outwardly : hind wings with a discal line and a submarginal shade, brownish ; marginal points of both wings black ; fringe yellowish : underside smoky grey crossed by several darker lines. This insect is very variable, some examples being much paler than others, and some quite reddish with black marks on the costa, the two outer lines composed of dots with two or three black spots. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 211. APPHADANA NIGROFUSCA, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 4.) Poona, October. General colour of body and both wings slaty-brown ; thorax with a brown band in front ; abdomen with brown segmental bands. Fore wings with a black mark on the hinder margin, at the base a broad black median band, nearly straight on the inner side, sinuous and toothed, and expanded upwards on the outer side, edged outwardly with whitish; two discal sinuous lines, each edged with whitish on the inner side, marginal points black. Hind wings with a faint medial, and a more distinct discal, blackish line, and a broad blackish marginal band ; marginal points black ; fringe of both wings brown, with pinkish edges. Expanse of wings 1-rV incn- 212. SPADIX VEGETUS, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 14.) Bombay, September and October. Antennae black ; palpi, head, and thorax reddish brown. Fore wino-s with the basal third pale reddish brown, remainder of the wings |