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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 869 113. HYDROCAMPA TENERA. Hydrocampa tenera, Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 167. Poona, November. 114. HYDROCAMPA DEPUNCTALIS. Hydrocampa depunctalis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. 274, 265. Bombay, November. 115. HYDROCAMPA SCITALIS, n. sp. Bombay, September to November. Very common. Pure silvery white; thorax with four or five chocolate-brown spots ; head with a similarly coloured mark down its centre; abdomen with black segmental bands. Wings with all the markings chocolate-brown and very distinct; fore wings with orbicular and reniform ringlets, a subbasal incomplete double line, an antemedial line across both wings, terminating on the costa, inside and close to the orbicular; a discal line on the fore wings, commencing on the costa, at one third from the apex, straight across on to the outer margin near the hinder angle ; it then curves inwardly, touching the bottom of the reniform ringlet (which is large, and extends from this line nearly to the costa), bends down and touches the hinder margin, at one third from the angle, then curves inwardly again, keeping close to the margin, and joins the antemedial line on the margin; on the hind wing there is also a similar discal line, which commences from the costa, at one third from the apex, straight down to the outer margin, above the anal angle, then curves upwards and inwards, and joins the antemedial line, a little below its centre ; there is also a marginal line on both wings. Underside dull white, with the markings indistinct. A very beautiful little insect. Expanse of wings TVT^O m c n - 116. ISOPTERYX ENIXALIS, n. Sp. Bombay. Antennae, palpi, head, and thorax greyish brown; thorax spotted with white in front, and marked with white on each side; abdomen with a duplex brown stripe across each segment. Wings pure white marked with brown, the fore wings so thickly marked as to make them appear brown, with the base whitish, with two antemedial white bands, with reniform and orbicular brown spots, surrounded with white, a medial patch of whitish, and brown lines, confused together and impossible to describe, and a marginal white band. Hind wings white, with an inner incomplete brown diffused band, followed by a white line and a thin brown line, all so to speak making one band ; an outer thin black line, followed by a white line, then a broad incomplete brown band, these three also making one broad discal band, the white space between the two bands with a brownish mark in the centre. Both wings with marginal spots, and a white fringe. Underside white, diffused with brownish in the centre of the fore wings. Expanse of wings y7^ inch. |