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Show 876 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [Dec. I, markings on the basal half. Fore wings with the costa dark reddish fawn-colour ; both wings suffused with fawn-colour, and covered with striations of the same colour, some of which are more or less connected and form eleven or twelve striated lines across both the wings ; reniform whitish in some specimens, with a brown ring in others, merely indicated by a black point, sometimes obsolete ; marginal points brown ; fringe reddish. Underside with the striations formed into regular lines, crossing the wings, aud darker than they are above. It is rather a variable insect. I have one with the striations above ou the centre of the hind wing blackish, making the wing look as if it had a central indistinct band. Expanse of wings T V T M J inch- SCOPARIID^E. 172. STENOPTERYX HYBRIDALIS. Pyralis hybridalis, Hiibner, Pyral. 29, 20, pi. 17, f. 114. Poona, October, November, and December. Very common; a common variety at Poona is reddish-coloured, with only very faint tracings of the usual wing-markings. 173. DOSARA CCELATALIS. Dosara coelatalis, Walker, xix. 829. Poona, February and November. 174. SCOPARIA ICTERICALIS, n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 16.) Poona, November and December. Yellowish white, irrorated with grey. Fore wings with the irrora-tions mostly in streaks, with two outwardly curved lines, one antemedial, the other discal, an indication of another line between these two in some specimens; marginal border with the irrorations thickened into a band, with the inner side dentated. Hind wings testaceous, basal portion whitish, marginal points black ; fringe interlined white and grey. Expanse of wings y7^ inch. GALLERIIDJE. 175. M E L I S S O B L A P T E S D E P R E S S E L L U S , n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 5.) Poona, October. Antennae and palpi greyish yellow; thorax grey, with a brown band in front; abdomen whitish. Fore wings greyish yellow, irrorated with grey, with the irrorations intensified into pale streaks on the costa, in the centre and on the hinder margin, also some grey streaks on the veins, on the marginal border. Hind wings pure white, unmarked. Expanse of wings ly^ inch. 176. -LAMORIA PLANALIS. Lamoria planalis, Walker, xxvii. 88. Poona, December ; Bombay, November, |
