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Show 1S88.] FROM WESTERN INDIA. 303 Family CARADRINID_E. 46. CARADRINA SABULOSA. (No. 8.) Caradrina sabulosa, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 516, pi. 47. fig. 6. Four females and one male from Campbellpore, May, June, and July 1886. First taken at Kurrachee, May 1879, and described by Col. Swinhoe. 47. CARADRINA EXTERNA. Orthosia externa, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxxiii. p. 715. Fore wings silky, mouse-colour; a dark subdentate line near the base, and a curved, strongly denticulate discal line, followed by a darker band before the paler submarginal line ; stigmata indistinct, generally rather darker than the ground-colour; a narrow angulated central shade, touching the inside of the reniform stigma ; at the base of the wing, between and on each side of the two stigmata and broadly below them, are paler patches. Hind wings silky fuscous in both sexes. Head, thorax, and abdomen mouse-colour. Four specimens, one female and three males, taken at the end of August and beginning of September 1886, at Kala Pani. Akin to our C. morpheus, but smaller, and with darker hind wings. After the above description was made, from the insects from Kala Pani, two of which are in perfect condition, I discovered that Walker's Orthosia externa, described from an inferior specimen, in the British Museum collection, and wrongly placed among the Orthosidae, was identical. I have, however, left the redescription standing, as it may serve to supplement Walker's necessarily somewhat imperfect and misleading account. A specimen from Col. Swinhoe, locality not given, is mentioned by Mr. Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 161. 48. AMYNA STRICTA. (No. 66.) Poaphila stricta, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xiv. p. 1476. Llattia cephusalis, Wlk. ibid. xvi. p. 209. Miana inornata, Wlk. ibid, xxxii. p. 677. Perigea leucospila, Wlk. ibid, xxxii. p. 683, female. Amyna cephusalis, Butler, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 617. 1 Amyna stigmatula, Snellen, Tijd. v. Ent. xv. p. 35, pi. iv. fig. 15. 1 Amyna stellata, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, i. p. 162. 1 Amyna undulifera, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1875, ii. p. 403. Two females and three males from Campbellpore, the last week in July. The two specimens of Poaphila stricta, Wlk., from Honduras and Santarem, still in the British Museum collection, are certainly identical with those of Amyna (Llattia, Wlk.) cephusalis in the same collection, which latter come from such diverse localities as the |
