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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 853 rounded at the top, pointed in front, compactly squamous, joints indistinct; antennas biciliated in front, and the shaft rough-scaled, with long lashes above ; legs rather stout ; tibiae densely clothed with long fine silky hairs; spurs long, unequal. 6. CHILKASA FALCATA, n. sp. (Plate LVI. fig. 2.) Bombay, September. Antennae, body, and wings fawn-colour; palpi black. Wings thinly irrorated with brown atoms, a black dot at the end of the cell of the fore wings, a double brown discal, nearly straight line across both wings, the space beyond dark maroon-brown, darker in the fore than in the hind wings ; marginal line yellow ; fringe brown. Underside pale fawn-colour, with medial and discal straight brownish lines across both wings. Expanse of wings 2 ^ inches. BOARMIID^E. 7. H Y P O C H R O M A DISPENSATA. Hypochroma dispensata, Walker, xxi. 435. Poona, September; Bombay, August, September, and October. 8. HYPOCHROMA PERFECTARIA. Hypochroma perfectaria, Walker, xxi. 434. Poona, May. 9. HYPOCHROMA CRENARIA. Hypochroma crenaria, Guenee, Phal. i. 278, 441. Bombay. 10. BOARMIA INFIXARIA. Boarmia infixaria, Walker, xxi. 379. Bombay. 11. BOARMIA GLEBA, n. sp. (Plate LVI. fig. 3.) Poona, May. Allied to Boarmia ferrolavata, Walker. Male. Reddish brown, irrorated with blackish brown ; antennae blackish, with its branches grey ; anal tuft pale pinkish; wings with dentated black lines; fore wings with an inner incomplete line, a medial line, which is slightly bent and deeply dentated in the fore wings, and is almost straight and even in the hind wings; discal and submarginal dentated lines, very distinct in the hind wings, the former almost joining the middle line in the abdominal margin ; both these lines are obsolete, or only very faintly indicated on the fore wings; marginal line brown, sinuous. Expanse of wings 2-^ inches. 12. BOARMIA GELIDARIA. Boarmia gelidaria, Walker, xxvi. 1537. Poona, September ; Bombay, November. |