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Show 1888.] FROM WESTERN INDIA. 321 the inner margin ; the space between them is sometimes filled up with blackish ; at one third from the apex another line, also blackest towards the costa, starts, forming in its course two blunt angulations and three curves, and reaches the inner margin at an equal distance from the central line as that line is from the first; beyond this third line the wing is slightly darker. Hind wing pale grey, with two strong dark lines, the first, nearest the base, straight, the second curving ; hind margin darker grey, with traces of paler undulating lines. Underside : fore wing pale ochreous, with the base of the costa, the starting-points of the lines, and the third line itself black : beyond the third line fuscous. Hind wing pale ochreous, with two lines and central spot dark. Expanse of wings 38 millim. Two males from Thundiani, August and September, 1886. It is possible that these may prove to be only pale forms of Alcis iterata, Butler. 124. GNOPHOS OBTECTARIA. (NO. 153.) Gnophos obtectaria, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. p. 1597. Three females and three males, from Thundiani and Abbotabad, August 1886. 125. GNOPHOS PERLITA. (NO. 179.) Gnophosperlita, Butler, P. Z.S. 1886, p. 389. Two males, from Abbotabad-one taken August 31, 1886, the other May 7, 1887. 126. GNOPHOS DISPUNCTATA. (NO. 103.) Gnophos dispunctata, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxi. p. 469. One female, two males, from Thundiani, August 19, 1886. " Common in August and September." 127. GNOPHOS ISOMETRA, sp. n. (No. 153.) Fore wing grey, finely dusted with darker; the markings very indistinct ; a round central spot ; a dark spot on the inner margin, apparently marking the termination of the first line ; a denticulated blackish line forming the edge of a very slightly darker central fascia ; a series of dull fuscous lunules before the fringes ; hind wing the same. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fringes grey. Underside pale, without dusting or markings. Expanse of wings 25 millim. One male, from Akhor, April 22, 1886. A small species, about the size of G. mucidaria of Europe, and bearing a superficial resemblance to Tephrosia vagaria from Australia. Family ID_EID_E. 128. A S T H E N A O C H R A C E A , sp. n. Dull ochreous yellow. Fore wing presents a succession of sinuous ochreous-yellow bands, separated from one another by paler and narrower ones ; the basal area is a little suffused with grey, and |
