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Show 862 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [Dec. 1, 72. MACARIA INFRICTARIA, n. sp. Poona, October and November. Allied to M.falsaria. Bone-colour, irrorated and striated with reddish grey ; top ot the head white ; thorax with a brown line in front; a brown dot at the end of each cell; costa of fore wings reddish grey, a broad, nearly straight discal band of the same colour across both wings, with the space between this band and the outer margin densely irrorated; marginal points black. Underside whitish, with the dots and band showing through. Expanse of wings F r 8o-r'o inch. FIDONIID^E. 73. S T E R R H A SACRARIA. Phalana-Geometra sacraria, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2. 863, 220. Poona, October. ZERENIID^;. 74. RHYPARIA TRANSECTATA. Rhyparia transectaria, Walker, xxiv. 1112. Khandalla. 75. ABRAXAS FASCIARIA. Zerene fasciaria, Guerin, Voy. Deless. Hist. Nat. p. 96, pi. 26. f. 5. Belgaum. 76. HYBERNIA HIBERNARIA, n. sp. (Plate LVI. fig. 4.) Bombay, December. Pale purplish grey, densely irrorated with soot-brown; antennae black, with the branches grey. Wings with a black spot at the end of each cell; the markings, such as they are, are mostly formed by the denseness of the irrorations, making the costa and outer third of the fore wings dark brownish and showing traces of a medial line on the hind wings; the costa is also brown ; there is an indication of an antemedial and of a medial line, and the marginal band attenuated towards the anal angle is fairly well defined. The underside is the same as the upper side, with the marginal band of the hind wings almost as broad as on the fore wings. Expanse of wings ly4^ inch. LARENTIID^E. 77. L Y C A U G E S ALBATUS, n. sp. (Plate LVI. fig. 5.) Poona, October. White, suffused here and there with very pale pinkish grey, irrorated with grey and black atoms ; antennae white, with pale grey branches; top of the head pure white ; thorax with a black line in front. Both wings with the marginal points black, and with a black spot or mark at the hinder and anal angles ; fore wings with two |