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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 863 very faint discal lines. Underside white, with a very faint line. Expanse of wings y9-^ inch. 78. EUPITHECIA TESTACEA, n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 15.) Poona, October. Pale greyish testaceous, irrorated with brown atoms ; fore wings with inner, medial, and outer black lines rounded towards the costa and bent inwards on to the costal margin ; two black spots on the inner line, one on the hinder margin and the other subcostal; costal line blackish, two other very faintly indicated lines between the postmedial line and the margin. Hind wings with a black spot on the end of the cell; antemedial, postmedial, and outer indistinct lines corresponding to those on the fore wings, but more sinuous, a blackish suffusion in the centre of the antemedial line ; fringe pale yellowish with brown spots on the tips. Expanse of wings yo-TV inch. 79. EUPITHECIA CONSCENSA, n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 8.) Poona, November and December. Pinkish grey, irrorated with black atoms, top of the head pure white : wings with a black dot at the end of each cell; three dentated, incomplete, blackish lines, the first commencing near the base, the second in the middle, and the third on the outer two thirds of the hinder margin ; the first two meet in the centre of the costa, the second one curving inwardly round the black dot, the third ends on the outer two thirds of the costa ; there is also a brownish apical streak or mark. Hind wings with three hardly dentated lines, the first two corresponding to the second and third of the fore wings; the last submarginal. Both wings with the marginal points black ; fringe pale pinkish with brown spots. Expanse of wings y8^ inch. 80. EUPITHECIA BILINEA, n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 7.) Poona, October. Very plentiful. Allied to E. immixtaria. Pale pinkish grey, irrorated with brown atoms ; top of the head white ; wings with a black spot at the end of each cell; fore wings with two distinct brown, slightly sinuous lines, one antemedial, stopping short of the costa, the other postmedial, complete, bent inwards near the costa ; marginal and submarginal lines brownish, indistinct. Hind wings same as fore wings, except that the antemedial line is wanting. Expanse of wings ^ inch. EROSIID^E. 81. EROSIA THECLATA. Erosia theclata, Guenee, Phal. ii. 36. Erosia adjutaria, Walker, xxiii. 849. Poona, July. 56* |