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Show 1883.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 163 85. COSMOPHILA XANTHINDYMA. 8 . Cosmophila xanthindyma, Boisduval, Faune de Madag. pi. fig. 7 (1833). 8 P $ . Cosmophila indica, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 396, n. 1256 (1852). . " 8, Solun ; 2 9 common at Mhow during September."- C. S. Of the male Colonel Swinhoe says, " also taken at Mhow in October." 86. GONITIS MESOGONA. Gonitis mesogona, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1002, n. 10 (1857). Solun, in July. 87. GONITIS INVOLUTA. Gonitis involuta, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1003 n. 12 (1857). " Nilgherries ; also taken at Kurrachee in June."-C. S. 88. POLYDESMA LAUDULA. Polydesma laudula, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 441, n. 1313 (1852). "Depalpur, November 1881 ; taken also at Mhow in September."- C. S. 89. LOPHOPTERA COSTATA. Lophoptera costata, Moore, M S . " Dharmsala, in August."-C. S. This species is in Mr. Hocking's collection ; the specimen sent by Colonel Swinhoe has lost its abdomen and antennae. 90. GYRTONA CHALYBEA, sp. n. Primaries smoky grey with steel-blue reflections, spotted and striated with blackish ; a spot on the reniform marking (which is outlined in black) and two parallel discal series of subconfluent spots golden cupreous; a brown submarginal stripe and a marginal series of black dashes; fringe whitish, traversed by two slender blackish lines : secondaries with the basal half opaline, hyaline white, with black veins ; external half dark brown ; fringe pure white, traversed by a blackish stripe : thorax blackish ; abdomen smoky grey. Wings below opaline white, veins blackish; a broad external dark-brown border; costal area of primaries blackish; four white dots on the costal margin beyond the cell; body below white ; legs greyish above. Expanse of wings 33 mm. " Solun, in September; also taken there in August."-C. S. Although Walker places this genus in the Phycidae, it differs but little from Steiria. |
