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Show 852 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [Dec. 1, 1. On the Lepidoptera of Bombay and the Deccan. Part IV.1 H E T E R O C E R A (continued). By Lieut.-Col. C. S W I N H O E, F.L.S., F.Z.S. [Received August 19, 1885.] (Plates LVL, LVII.) GEOM E TRITE S. ENNOMIIDiE. 1. HYPERYTHRA PHANTASM A. Hyperythra phantasma, Butler, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 615. Poona, October. 2. HYPERYTHRA LIMBOLARIA. Hyperythra limbolaria, Guenee, Phal. i. 101, 153, pi. 3. figs. 3, 4. Poona, October, November, and December; Bombay, October, November, and December. 3. CHIZALA DECIPIENS. Chizala decipiens, Walker, xx. 263. Belgaum, September; Poona, July, October, aud November. 4. SCARDAMIA METALLARIA. Scardamia metallaria, Guenee, Phal. i. 89, 134. Poona, December ; Bombay, October. 5. AZELINA CLELIA. Phalana clelia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 172, pi. 283. figs. B, C. GSNOCHROMID^;. Gen. nov. CHILKASA. Male. Fore wing rather long, triangular, costa much arched towards the end, apex very acute, falcate, exterior margin very oblique and convex in the middle, posterior margin convex towards the end ; first subcostal emitted at fully one half before the end of the cell, second at one sixth, trifid, fifth from end of the cell and slightly touching third near its base ; discocellular concave, radials from close to upper and lower end; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower at nearly two fifths ; submedian much curved downward from the base. Hind wing very short, exterior margin oblique and convex, anal angle obtusely pointed ; cell one third the length ; two subcostals from the end of cell; discocellular concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from end of the cell, lower at nearly one third ; submedian and internal vein recurved. Body stout; thorax laxly clothed; palpi ascending, recurved, 1 Continued from page 476. |