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Show 688 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON [Dec. 14, basal fourth; a well-marked black discocellular spot: secondaries with a testaceous discocellular spot. Expanse of wings 8£ lines. One specimen. MlCRONIIDcE. 140. MlCRONIA GANNATA. 3. Micronia gannata, Guenee, Phal. ii. p. 26 (1857). 5 . Micronia aculeata, Guenee, I.e. pl. 13. fig. 8 (1857). Five examples, of which four are males having the dark under surface of M. gannata ; the fifth (which is much broken) is a female, and has the under surface white, as in typical M. aculeata. Although it is true that there are males in which the under surface is white, I have seen numerous gradations from this colour to the dusky brown tint of the type, and I have never yet seen a female with the under surface dark. I therefore agree with Walker in his statement that M. gannata " appears to be the male of M. aculeata." Why this author described a second male as M. aculeata, with the wings below "plus minusve cinereci," I cannot understand, since the only reason for separating the two forms is that the wings below are not ""plus minusve einerece," but albce. LARENTIIDcE. 141. EUPITHECIA, sp. One specimen too much rubbed for description ; it seems to come nearest to E. implicata. 142. EUPITHECIA TRISTRIGOSA, sp. n. Brown; wings crossed near the base by an angular black stripe, and close to the base by a greyish band with undulated margins, followed by a central greyish stripe ; an angulated discal black stripe followed by two parallel grey lines ; a slightly undulated submarginal black stripe; under surface redder than the upper surface, the markings less distinct. Expanse of wings 10 lines. Two specimens. The name which I have given it notes the three black stripes across the wings, a peculiarity which distinguishes it from all species which I have seen. The primaries are unfortunately rather badly rubbed; but traces of the submarginal band are distinctly visible upon the rubbed portion of these wings. PHYCIDCE. 143. TRACHONITIS PUNCTIGERA, sp. n. Primaries above olivaceous, base and internal border brown ; two or three ill-defined oblique brownish costal lines; discoidal stigma lunate, silvery white ; apical third plum-coloured, angulated internally so as just to enclose the discoidal stigma, beyond which it emits a diffused reddish streak into the cell; a subapical reddish-bordered olivaceous spot; fringe pale brown, with a subbasal dusky line : secondaries sericeous greyish brown with cupreous reflections ; fringe whitish, traversed by a grey line: body above greyish brown! |
