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Show 306 MR. w. W A R R E N O N LEPIDOPTERA [June 5, Walker's types are from Shanghai. The species appears peculiarly liable to grease. It is a narrower-winged insect than the European G. ravida. 57. GRAPHIPHORA CANESCENS. (NOS. 154 & 163.) Graphiphora canescens, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, i. p. 165. Cerastis subdolens, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, pt. ii. p. 181. Two females and six males from Thundiani, August, September, and October, 1886. Very closely allied to, if not identical with, G. dahlii of Europe. As in that species, the. females are usually much darker than the males, though dark males are occasionally to be seen. 58. OXTRA OCHRACEA. (Nos. 132 & 154.) Oxira ochracea, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 657. Seven males and six females from Thundiani, Handar, and Rawal Pindi, August, September, and October, 1886 ; a single female from Rawal Pindi, March 31, 1887. "Very common at sugar." Smaller and of more slender build than G. canescens, Butler, the male with pectinated antennae. As in that species, the fore wing of the female is dull brown or brownish red, of the male more reddish ochreous, though in this case also some specimens of the male are as dark as the females. The markings are similar. A geminated sinuous black basal and subbasal line, a curved denticulated discal line, often immediately followed by a narrow paler fascia ; a pale submarginal line, preceded on the costa by a brownish shade; orbicular stigma of the ground-colour, merely edged with darker ; reniform variable, often pale-margined only, or with the upper part filled up with ochreous grey, the lower with dark fuscous, often more conspicuously paler in the female. In each sex they are sometimes preceded by a black spot; that before the orbicular being triangular or wedge-shaped ; that before the reniform subquadrate ; the claviform stigma is represented, as in all the allied species, by a small dark dot; an angulated central dark streak crosses the wing just before the reniform stigma ; cilia of the ground-colour, with a paler basal line, preceded by a series of dark lunules. Hind wing dull fuscous, with reddish fringes in both sexes. Head and thorax concolorous with the fore wings; abdomen fuscous (darker in the female), with the anal tuft reddish ; antennae of the male pectinated. Underside somewhat iridescent, pinkish ochreous, more pink along the costa and hind margin of the fore wing ; hind wing with a central dark spot and narrow curved band. After the above description (of a supposed new Graphiphora) was written, made from the fourteen specimens above recorded, I discovered that the type of Walker's Oxira ochracea, a male from Ceylon, was identical. In all points, except the pectinated antennae, the species agrees well with Graphiphora canescens, Butler, the |
