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Show 1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 885 and is the first of this genus described from India. It is represented by a single specimen in Colonel Swinhoe's collection from Bombay. ACIPTILIA, Hiibner. 215. ACIPTILIA O X Y D A C T Y L A. Pterophorus oxydactylus, Walker, xxx. 944. Poona, September and December. Common. Undistinguishable from Pterophorus oxydactylus, Walker, from Ceylon. Under Walker's name P. congrualis from India are two distinct species. The second specimen is at least very closely allied to P. oxydactylus, apparently differing ouly in the markings of the upper side of the abdomen, but the first and third specimens have dark spots in the cilia of the dorsal margin of the fore wings and probably belong to the genus Mimescoptilus. Col. Swinhoe's specimens have white marks on the legs as in P. oxydactylus. 216. ACIPTILIA ATOMOSA, n. sp. Bombay. Head, thorax, palpi, and antennae dull fawn-colour, the latter with a slender dark fuscous streak along their upper side towards the base. Fore wings dull fawn-colour, sprinkled with dark fuscous scales except along the costal portion of the wing. The anterior lobe has three dark fuscous spots on its costal margin at the base of the fringes, the first at about one third of its length from the base of the cleft ; the other two closely approximate to each other about half way between the first and the apex of the wing. The fringes are very slightly paler than the wings, and are thickly speckled with dark fuscous dots beneath the apical portion of the anterior lobe and on both sides of the apex of the posterior lobe. In the fringes on the dorsal margin about the middle is a group of dark fuscous spots. Hind wings pale fawn-brown, cleft to more than half their length, between the first and second lobes. On the dorsal margin of the third lobe is a row of dark fuscous dots along the middle of the fringes. Abdomen dull fawn-colour, with scarcely paler inconspicuous bands at the junction of the segments. Legs dull fawn-colour, with paler spurs ; along the underside of each spur runs a dark fuscous line, and on the two anterior pairs of legs these lines are continued along the whole length of the legs themselves. Expanse 20 millim. EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. PLATE LVI. Fig. 1. Ephyra quiet a, p. 856. 2. Chilkasa falcata, p. 853. 3. Boarmia gleba, p. 853. 4. Hybernia hibernaria, p. 862. 5. Lycauges albatus, p. 862. 6. Iodis quantula, p. 855. 7. Geometra aperta, p. 855. |