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Show 174 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA [Apr. 3, tint, and the pattern where I am able to compare it, agrees, as the structure. TlNEITES. 147. TEGNA HYBL.EELLA. Tegna hyblaella, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. v. p. 1810 (1866). "Mhow, September 1881 ; scarce."- C. S. 148. GELECHIA, sp. A black species, apparently nearest to G. infernalis of Europe, but too much broken (only half a palpus remains, and no antennae) to be described. "Mhow, October 1881 ; common for about a week."-C. S. It is a pity that only a single injured example was sent; without palpi, it is not even certain that the species is a Gelechia, though I have very little doubt that it is. 149. DEPRESSARIA SWINHOEI, sp. n. Allied to D. culcitella. Stramineous ; the primaries with two black dots placed longitudinally and slightly obliquely, in and at the end of the discoidal cell; a curved marginal series of dusky dots; secondaries with the basi-abdominal half whitish ; wings below without markings. Expanse of wings 16 mm. Mhow, October 1881. 150. YPSOLOPHUS ROBUSTUS, sp. n. Thorax and primaries pale ash-grey, the latter with two small elongated blackish spots, one in the cell before the middle of the wing, the other below the extremity of the cell; a marginal series of dusky dots ; secondaries and abdomen whitish ; the long tapering fringe of the palpi black, tipped in front with white : primaries below fuliginous brown ; secondaries and body white. Expanse of wings 17 mm. "Kurrachee, September 1879; one taken there in each of the months of February, September, November, and December."-C. S. The remainder of the Microlepidoptera are too much broken to be determined. In a collection, the account of which I published last year (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. ix. pp. 206-211), I indicated an imperfect female Hipparchia as possibly II. anthe ; the male of Epi-nephele roxane was in the same collection. Major Marshall (P. Z. S. 1882) states that the "specimens " identified as H. anthe have been sent to him by Col. Swinhoe aud prove to be females of Epinephele roxane. As I know both sexes of the latter, and am not likely to regard a rubbed specimen as belonging to another genus, it is clear that Col. Swinhoe, through press of official business, has made a mistake in labelling his specimens; indeed this is evident from the fact that more than one specimen was sent to Major Marshall. |
