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Show 162 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. [Apr. 3, H. armigera. The original description was taken from a specimen collected at Moreton Bay ; in N e w Zealand it is a common form ; and in both these localities it is redder than specimens coming from India or Africa. The specimen before m e would perhaps be more correctly placed as a dark form of H. conferta. Respecting this and the preceding species, Colonel Swinhoe says:-" Three varieties of Heliothis armigera : has each a specific name 1 All these kinds have been captured by me in Sind, Afghanistan, and Central India ; I have also single examples of two other varieties." 81. ANTHJECIA SWINHOEI, sp. n. Primaries above laky-brown, shining reddish cupreous in some lights, speckled with blackish, crossed in the middle by a slightly irregular and rather narrow blackish band ; apex bordered with blackish ; costa spotted with blackish : secondaries bright ochre-yellow, with a rather broad black external border ; fringe golden; a slender curved grey line across the centre of the ochreous area: thorax reddish ; abdomen blackish, the segments edged with ochraceous. Primaries below blackish with faint lake-red reflections; a large spot at the end of the cell and a submarginal stripe black, but only visible in certain lights ; costa and fringe golden ochraceous ; secondaries ochreous, grey-speckled ; external border greyish, tinted with reddish at apex, bounded internally by two imperfect parallel blackish stripes, a third across the ochreous area as above, but better defined : body below pale golden, sericeous ; tarsi banded with grey. Expanse of wings 26 m m. Assirghur, October 1881. This is a very distinct and beautiful little species. 82. ERIOPUS LATREILLIl. Eriopus latreillii, Duponchel, Suppl. Lep. France, iv. p. 327, pi. 123. fig. 2. Solun, in June. This species, being structurally distinct from tbe other forms hitherto associated with it under Callopistria, Hiibner, may be regarded henceforth as the type of Treitschke's genus Eriopus, under which it stood as Eriopus quieta. 83. PLUSIA NIGRISIGNA. Plusia nigrisigna, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xii. p. 928, n. 87 (1857). " Kasauli, in September; I have it also from Umballa, and one very dark example from Solun."-C. S. 84. PENICILLARIA DELATRIX. Penicillaria delatrix, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 304, n. 1112 (1852). Clue to exact locality missing. The Museum examples are all from Java. |