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Show 1888.] FROM WESTERN INDIA. 297 the cell ; cilia dull orange. Hind wings dull fuscous orange, with the cilia rather brighter : abdomen coloured like the hind wing ; thorax apparently concolorous with the fore wings. Expanse of wings 30 mm. The species bears a superficial resemblance to Orggia simplex. 18. PORTHESIA XANTHORRHCEA. (No. 1.) Liparis xanthorrhcea, Kollar, Kaschmir, p. 470. One female and three males from Campbellpore and Khairabad, taken in April, May, and June, and a male from Abbotabad, taken as late as October, 1886. The specimens in the Brit. Mus. collection are from the Punjaub, Ceylon, and the Kangra district. 19. THYRGORINA SPILOSOMATA. (NO. 214.) Thyrgorina spilosomata, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxi. p. 318. One female, Dumtanar, near Abbotabad, September 29, 1886. 20. ARTAXA PUSILLA. (NO. 14.) Artaxa pusilla, Moore, Ceylon, ii. p. 86, pi. 112. fig. 4, 8 • Euproctis pygmcea, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atkinson, p. 48. Three specimens, a female and two males, taken at the end of May and beginning of June 1886, at Campbellpore. 21. ARTAXA FRATERNA. (No. 211.) Artaxa fraterna, Moore, Ceylon, ii. p. 85. Artaxa guttata, var. h, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 795. Artaxa guttata, var. /3, male only, Wlk. ibidem. One male from Hurripur, Oct. 13, 1886. "At sugar; the only specimen." Walker, in his description of A. guttata, iv. p. 795, confounds three species ; in vol. xxxii. p. 329, he sinks his A. guttata as a synonym of A. digramma, Boisd., but fails apparently to see that under his varieties two other species are denoted. His description of the type form of A. guttata assigns two black subapical dots only to the male, none to the female ; his var. y of the male also has no spots. It follows that his typical male alone was digramma, Boisd., his typical female and male var. y being one of the spotless species ; while his var. I 8 2 and his var. /3 8 are evidently the species which Mr. Moore has now named A. fraterna. 22. CHILENA SIMILIS. Chilena similis, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1071. Lasiocampa strigula, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 563. A single female, in beautiful condition, but without date or locality. Walker describes the male as being sometimes whitish, at others brown ; but it seems that really the females only are white, the males being pinkish brown. (Cf. also Moore, Ceylon, iii. p. 543, pi. 212. fig. 5 rj.) |
