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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 877 PHYCID.E. M y large collection of Phycidae must stand over until M . Ragonot publishes his monograph on this genus ; nearly all the types from private collections in England appear to be now in his possession in Paris. 177- HOMGEOSOMA GRATELLA. Homceosoma gratella, Walker, xvii. 26. Poona, October and November ; Bombay. 178. HOMCEOSOMA DERASELLA, 11. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 19.) Poona, September; Bombay, October. Reddish cinereous, irrorated with grey ; palpi and head marked with white. Fore wings with the costa greyish, with two incomplete blackish bands, inwardly oblique, one antemedial, the other medial, both stopping short at one third from the costa, two incomplete, very indistinct, reddish discal lines, absent in some specimens. Hind wings whitish grey towards the outer margin ; fringe interlined white and grey. Expanse of wings y6^ inch. 179. NEPHOPTERYX LENTALIS, n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 18.) Bombay. Antennae, palpi, head, and thorax dark pinkish grey, marked with brown ; abdomen pale grey, with blackish segmental bands. Fore wings white, with a slight tinge of pinkish, irrorated with pinkish brown atoms, a grey basal band with a black mark in it, a medial grey band broad on the hinder margin, and narrowing to the costa, with the upper half black, a black apical diffuse streak and a white line near the outer margin, crossing the apical streak and running through a diffuse blackish band ; marginal points black ; fringe grey. Hind wings whitish ; marginal line grey ; fringe interlined white and grey. Expanse of wings y8^ inch. 180. NEPHOPTEYRX LAXALIS, n. sp. Poona, November. Antennae, palpi, head, thorax, and fore wings yellowish brown; abdomen grey; hind wings whitish. Fore wings with the costa grey, with a broad, diffuse, subcostal grey band, which occupies nearly the upper half of the wing and expands on the outer margin, having a large spot of the ground-colour of the wings in its centre; hinder margin also suffused with grey. Hind wings whitish, unmarked. Underside whitish testaceous, shining, unmarked. Expanse of wings y8^ inch. 181. NEPHOPTERYX CREPERALIS, n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 20.) Poona, October. Greyish brown, irrorated with black atoms ; abdomen (especially in the female) with whitish segmental lines. Fore wings with the P R O C . Z O O L . Soc-1885, No. LVII. 57 |
