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Show 528 LIEUT.-COL. C SWINHOE ON [Nov. 4, 116. STERRA SACRARIA, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. (2) p. 863 (1766). Common in November. EROSIID^E. 117. EROSIA HYPERBOLICA, n. sp. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 15.) Kurrachee, May. General colour pale reddish cinereous ; eyes black ; body slender, cylindrical; fore wings with the costa straight, long, apex rounded, hinder margin very short, notched behind the angle, outer margin round, slightly toothed ; hind wings small, with the outer margin produced into two long teeth. The entire surface of both wings deeply irrorated with reddish ochreous; a basal, medial, and outer band of dark reddish ochreous; a semidiaphanous white spot in the centre of the medial band of the fore wings ; an elongated semidiaphanous latitudinal streak in the centre of the same band in the hind wings ; fringe whitish. Expanse of wings lp0 inch. CRAMBICES. CBAMBID^E. 118. SCIBPOPHAGADEGENEBELLA, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxviii. p. 524. Jemedar Ke Landi, March. 119. CRAMBUS ZONELLUS, n. sp. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 16.) Kurrachee, May. Allied to C. decolorellus. Yellowish fawn-colour; abdomen whitish; last joint of the labial palpi very long, JJJ inch ; abdomen extending somewhat beyond the wings. Fore wings acute, outer border nearly straight, slightly oblique, marginal points black ; fore wings darker towards the costa and outer border, a faint brown streak along the subcostal nervure, a black dot at the end of the cell, two brown spots below, on the submedian nervure, and a brown shadowy band running in from the apex, towards the centre of the hinder margin, but stopping halfway ; hind wings whitish. Expanse of wings y^ inch. NYCTEOLID^E. 120. EABIAS TBISTRIGOSA, Butler, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 614. Very common throughout the year. 121. EARIAS FRONDOSANA, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 204. Kurrachee, February. ToRTRICID^E. 122. P^EDISCA DECOLORANA, Freyer, Neuere Beitrage, 318, 5 (1831-58). February and May. |
