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Show 294 MR. w. W A R R E N O N LEPIDOPTERA [June 5, The male is a dwarf, barely more than half the size of the and smaller than any example in the Brit. Mus. collection. 6. HEMARIS SAUNDERSII. (No. 77.) Sesia saundersii, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . viii. p. 83. Macroglossa saundersii, Boisd. MSS. One female, taken May 3, 1887, at Thundiani. The specimen was numbered the same as the next following species, Cephonodes hylas, from which it is distinguished by the broader dark border of the fore wing, and the green scaling of the same wing reaching as far as the median vein. 7. CEPHONODES HYLAS. (No. 77.) Sphinx hylas, L. Mant. i. p. 539. Two specimens, both females, from Campbellpore and Hassan Abdal, June and July, 1886. "Rare." Family AGARISTID^E. 8. iEGOCERA VENULIA. (NO. 47.) Phalcena venulia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 16. fig. D. One female, May 21, and one male, July 19, 1886, from Campbellpore. " A few in May." Family ZYG.ENID,E. 9. SYNTOMIS MINOR, sp. n. (No. 177.) Two males and two females from Kala Pani, taken August 30, and September 1, 1886. The specimens are all more or less damaged as to the head, palpi, and antennae. They belong to the group which has the abdomen marked with two yellow rings, and come nearest to <S. georgina, Butler, but are much smaller, none of the four exceeding f- of an inch. Purplish brown : fore wing with five whitish hyaline spots :-1, small, near the base ; 2, small, at the end of the cell; 3, large, of varying shape, below 2; 4, small, subcostal, halfway between 2 and the apex; 5, large, and always geminated, obliquelg below 4, and nearer the hind margin than in the allied species, so that the distance between 3 and 5 is greater. Hind wing with one, largish, basal, and another, smaller, hyaline spot beyond it. As far as can be made out from the condition of the insects, none of the four ever had a yellow collar, but the face and two abdominal bands are distinctly yellow. In the Brit. Mus. collection there is a single unnamed specimen, also damaged, from Abyssinia, which accords well, both in size and disposition of the spots, with these four from India. " Common between Kala Pani and Abbotabad." 10. ZYCENA CASCHMIRENSIS. (No. 46.) Zygcena caschmirensis, Kollar, Kasch. iv. p. 459, pi. 19. fio-. 6. Five specimens, three females and two males, from Thundiani and |