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Show 858 LIEUT.-COL. C SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [Dec. 1, 47. ID,EA GRANDICULARIA, n. sp. (Plate LVI. fig. 11.) Poona, October. Whitish, irrorated with grey atoms ; costa grey, a black dot surrounded by a grey ring at the end of the cell in all the wings; medial and discal, sinuous, hardly dentated lines, across both wings; an inner line of the same kind also on the fore wings, the space between the discal line and the outer margin on both wings suffused more or less with grey, with two brownish patches on the fore wings, one a little above the centre of the discal line, and the other on the hinder margin, both patches on the outer side of the line ; marginal points black; fringe tinged with chrome-yellow. Underside white, with the cell dots, the medial line, and outer markings showing through the wing. Expanse of wings ly,j inch. 48. IDJEA CHOTARIA, n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 14.) Poona, November and December ; Bombay. Yellowish testaceous, a black dot at the end of each cell, another black dot on the costa of the fore wings near the apex, a faint discal line from this dot downwards, across both wings ; two suffused brown patches outside this line, on the fore wings-one in the hinder margin, the other just above it and touching it; another patch of the same description on the abdominal border of the hind wings ; in some specimens this patch runs into the discal line like an indistinct band. Expanse of wings y5jy-y6xr inch. 49. ZANCLOPTERYX INFELIX, n. sp. (Plate LVI. fig. 13.) Poona, October and November. Antennae grey, with silvery-white bands; palpi black, with the last joint silvery white ; eyes black ; wings semihyaline. Body and wings pure silvery white; costa, outer margin, and a very faint submarginal shade on the fore wings, greyish : otherwise the wings are quite unmarked. Expanse of wings yff inch. 50. HYRIA GRATARIA. Hyria grataria, Walker, xxii. 663. Poona, October. 51. HYRIA VOLUTARIA, n. sp. (Plate LVI. fig. 14.) Bombay. Ochreous-red, irrorated with grey. Head and underside of the antennae pure white ; a black dot at the end of each cell; lines grey, indistinct: on the fore wings, antemedial, bent inwards, towards the costa; medial and discal upright, both of them extending also across the hind wings, where they bend outwardly in the centre ; marginal border brownish, dentated; some submarginal pale marks on both wings; fringe pale reddish yellow, interrupted with reddish at the |