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Show 1884.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M KURRACHEE. 527 the costa brownish ; a basal interrupted line, not reaching the and very indistinct; antemedial, medial, and postmedial wavy lines brown ; hind wings with only the medial and postmedial lines; fringe pure white. Expanse of wings -j% inch. 108. ID,EA INVALIDA, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 439 (1879). Kurrachee, May and December. 109. ID^EA INDUCTATA, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 792. Kurrachee, May, November, and December. 110. ID^A ACTUARIA, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 752. Kurrachee, May. FIDONIID^E. 111. T E P H R I N A PEREMPTARIA, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 929. Kurrachee, November and December. 112. TEPHRINA LITHINA, Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 171. January and March. 113. TEPHRINA ARENARIA, n. sp. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 13.) Kurrachee, December. Common. Allied to T. arenaceara. Pale whitish bone-colour, slightly irrorated with brown atoms; costa thinly brown, a brown dot at the end of the cell: both wings with four faint brown lines:-1, interior and retracted towards the costa ; 2, medial; 3, exterior and double, and darker than the others ; 4, marginal, slightly diffuse, with black points in the veins ; there is also another shadowy line between the double and the marginal line, and which joins the double line at the costa; hind wing slightly angulated in the centre of the outer border. Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 114. TEPHRINA STRENUATARIA, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. p. 1647- May to July, November to December. Very common. 115. FIDONIA ALBOFASCIA, n. sp. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 14.) Kurrachee, September. Body pale cinereous tinged with chocolate-brown ; antennae moderately pectinated, except towards the tips; ground-colour of the wings whitish cinereous, basal third densely irrorated with chocolate-brown ; a broad milk-white band across the centre of both wings, bordered on the inside by a chocolate-brown band, and on the outer side • the rest of the wing is coloured chocolate-brown, with the whitish ground-colour of the wing showing through here and there. Expanse of wings -fij inch. |