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Show 1888.] FROM WESTERN INDIA. 295 Chittar, caught in July and September 1886, and marked "very common." The crimson abdominal band occupies two segments in the female, and three in the male, leaving the last segment only in the latter, but the last two in the former, dark. Family CHALCOSIID.E. 11. A G A L O P E BASALTS. (No. 89.) Agalope basalis, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 438. Three examples from Thundiani, two females taken in August, the male in October 1886. " Common at Thundiani and Murree, August and September." 12. SORITIA PULCHELLA. (NO. 186.) Chalcosia pulchella, Kollar, Kaschmir, iv. p. 461. Eterusia pulchella, 2 . Wlk- Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 431. Eterusia triliturata, 8. Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxi. p. 119. One female from Thundiani, September 15, 1886. The specimens in the Brit. Mus. collection are from Nepaul and Mussourie. Major Yerbury notes that only two specimens were taken ; but that it was reported to be common at Nandar in September, though he himself did not see any. Family LITHOSIID_E. 13. LACIDES FICUS. (NO. 101.) Noctua ficus, F. E. S. iii. p. 27. One male, in good condition, Campbellpore, July 30, 1886. 14. DIGAMA HEARSEYANA. (No. 61.) Digama hearseyana, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. ii. p. 298, pi. 7. Three females and two males from Campbellpore and Khairabad, all taken between the end of May and middle of June. 15. PENTACITROTUS VULNERATUS. (NO. 206.) Pentacitrotus vulneratus, Butler, 111. Lep. Het, v. p. 35, pi. 86. fig. 5. One female from Thundiani, taken October 10, 1886. Two specimens only were seen. This new genus, containing the single species here named, is placed in the Brit. Mus. collection by Mr. Butler between Padenia, Moore, and Tigrioides, Wlk. The species itself is there represented by a single example, a male, from Darjiling, of which the ground-colour is coppery-orange. The markings consist of two quadrate black blotches standing on the inner margin, embracing between them a perfect arch of the ground-colour : from the top inner angle of the first and from the top outer angle of the second proceed two narrower black arms ; the first joins a costal blotch towards the base; the second is abbreviated and rounded off before reaching the apex. In the middle of the costa is another quadrate black marking, united 21* |
