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Show 1883.] MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 167 either species, the base, central belt, and external area being slightly paler than on the primaries. Expanse of wings 24 mm. Solun. 108. PYRALIS LUCILLALIS. Pyralis lucillalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xvii. p. 268, n. 21 (1859). r Solun. The type of this species was from China. 109. APORODES MELEAGRISALIS. Herbula meleagrisalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xvii. p. 324, n. 11 (1859). r ' "Kurrachee, March 1880; taken there in February, March, and April; at Lachana, Sind, in July ; at Kotree, Upper Sind, in March ; Quetta in January and March; Metazai, South Afghanistan, in May : plentiful."- C. S. & 110. SAMEA INSCITALIS. JEdiodes inscitalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. iv. p. 1297 (1865). Mhow, September 1881. This species is nearly allied to S. ecclesialis of Guenee. 111. SALBIA? PERSPICUALIS. Zebroniaperspicualis,Wa\ker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. iv. p. 1347 (1865). Botys 1 flexissimalis, Walker, I.e. p. 1426 (1865). Mhow, October 1881. This form agrees better with Salbia than with Zebronia. 112. PARAPONYX AFFINIALIS. Paraponyx affinialis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 270, n. 259 (1854). Mhow, October 1881. 113. HYDROCAMPA TENERA, sp. n. Allied to H. rivulalis, much smaller. Snow-white, with brown markings as follows :-primaries with two brown lines across the base, followed by an oblique abbreviated costal line; two irregular oblique parallel lines before the middle, united towards their inferior extremities to two more slender parallel angulated lines, which commence in a pale quadrate patch enclosing a black spot at the end of the cell; a third pair of lines near the external border, their upper portion running obliquely from the costa to the external border near the external angle, which they then bound to inner margin ; external border bounded internally by a brown line excavated in the middle, and brownish at apex and external angle : secondaries with a tapering brown fascia across the end of the cell and two parallel lines, the outer of which limits the external border, the latter brown, PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1883, No. XII. 12 |