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Show 1885.] OF B O M B A Y A N D T H E DECCAN. 881 199. EARIAS TRISTRIGOSA. Earias tristrigosa, Butler, P.Z.S. 1881, p. 614. Bombay. This paper concludes my list of the Lepidoptera of Bombay and the Deccan. As already stated, I am indebted to Lord Walsingham for working out the specimens of Tortricidae and Tineina. Fam. TORTRICIDAE. Subfam. TORTRICIDJE. CACOSCIA, lib. 200. CACOJ-CIA MICACEANA. Caccecia micaceana, Walker, xxviii. p. 314. Poona, November. One female from Poona, very similar in appearance to Caccecia podana, Sc, but differing from that species in possessing a strong tuft of stout closely-set scales on the costal margin of the hind wings. I have in my own collection three males and four females collected by the Rev. J. H. Hocking at Dharmsala in the Punjab. The males also greatly resemble the European C. podana, and are, indeed, less distinguishable from that species than the females, as they lack the structural characters above referred to, differing only in their rather smaller size and less brightly coloured hind wings. The type in the British Museum is a female, which is more conspicuously marked on the fore wings, but has the characteristic tuft on the hind wings strongly developed. Mr. Hocking, to whom I am also indebted for a specimen of the larva, informs me that it lives between the leaves of Quercus alba. DlCHELIA. 201. DlCHELIA RETRACTANA. Dichelia retractana, Walker, xxviii. p. 322. Bombay, October. A single male is in the collection of Mr. F. Moore, from Ceylon, and a female in Colonel Swinhoe's collection, from Bombay. I have also a single male from the Rev. J. H. Hocking, taken at Dharmsala. Walker's specimen in the British Museum is from Australia, and is undistinguishable from the Ceylonese and Indian examples. PHYCODES, Gn. 202. PHYCODES HIRUDINICORNIS. Phycodes hirudinicornis, Guenee, Noct. ii. pp. 389, 1249. Tegna hyblaella, Walker, xxxv. 1810. Poona. I have also received the species, with its larva, from the Rev. J. H. Hocking from Dharmsala. According to the evidence afforded by the structure, appearance, and habits of the larva, which has been |