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Show 520 LIEUT.-COL. c SWINHOE ON [Nov. 4, 47. PANDESMA SIMILATA, Moore, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 24. Shikapore, April 1879. Two chrysalides received by post, hatched two days after arrival, producing one of each sex. 48. PANDESMA DEVIA, n. sp. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 3.) Kurrachee, June. In coloration and markings it has the general appearance of a large Heliothis armigera. Body whitish grey : fore wings ochreous ash colour; costa with a few brown marks near the base, a small orbicular ringlet; reniform stigma large, excavated anteriorly ; an inner and an outer latitudinal thin slightly sinuous line, a broad grey band right across the marginal area, suffused inwardly and bordered with a sinuous white line outwardly, with a black spot on this line towards the apex of the wing, with brown lines on the veins extending from this white line to the outer border; fringe brown. Hind wings pale ochreous grey, with a very broad, brown discal band, and a somewhat suffused lighter brown marginal border ; fringe white. Underside pale whitish grey, slightly brown on the borders and costa, with a pale brown discal band through both wings. Expanse of wings 1T^ inch. HOMOPTEBID^E. 49. HOMOPTEBA VETUSTA, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 875. Kurrachee, April and May, 1879-1880. Common. HYPOGBAMMID^E. 50. SELEPA DOCILIS, Butler, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 619. Kurrachee, May and November, 1879-1880. Hubb River, November 1879. 51. OTHORA JENEA, n. sp. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 1.) Kurrachee, July. iEneous brown, paler beneath and more bronzy ; fore wings above with a basal wavy band which stops short of the costa, and a central wavy band which passes across the reniform stigma, of a darker colour ; otherwise both wings above and below are unmarked. Expanse of wings 1 inch. BENDID^E. 52. H A M O D E S AURANTICA, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 203, no. 1603. Jacobabad, January 1879. OPHIUSID^E. 53. LAGOPTERA MAGICA, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. iii. °p. 32, no. 268, f. 535, 536. Kurrachee. Is not uncommon ; but unfortunately I have no note of dates. I have found the larvae feeding on Quisqualis indica. |