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Show 322 MR. W. WARREN ON LEPIDOPTERA [June 5, traversed by a narrow pale band ; the hind margin is yellowish, preceded by a more distinct submarginal pale band, which is slightly interrupted above the anal angle, and terminates in a wider spot on the inner margin. In one example this submarginal band coirsists of a series of pale spots separated from one another by the yellow veins, and the pale band before it is paler and wider. Hind wings with the hind margin yellowish, and the rest of the wing traversed by a series of undulating greyish-ochreous bands, separated, like those of the fore wing, by paler ones. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous tinged with darker. Expanse of wings 22 millim. Two females, from Thundiani, August 17, 1886, in poor condition. 129. ID_EA MUTANDA. Acidalia inductata, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxiii. p. 792, non Gn. Phal. i. p. 494, Wlk. xxii. p. 721. One male from Campbellpore, M a y 21, 1886. Walker's description of his A. inductata is very good, but his name must be altered as there was already an A. inductata, Gn., from N. America. 130. ID^EA PALLIDA, sp. n. Fore wing silky white tinged with ochreous ; with five sinuous ochreous lines; a series of minute black marginal dots, and a larger central one : hind wing the same, but with only four ochreous bauds. Head, thorax, and abdomen white. Expanse of wings 28 millim. One male, from Thundiani, August 1, 1886. An unnamed specimen from Murree, in the Brit. Mus. collection, appears identical. 131. LYCAUGES RELICTATA. Acidalia relictata, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxxv. p. 1629. Lgcauges demissus, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 456. One example, male, without the abdomen, Campbellpore, July 14, 1886. Col. Swinhoe records it as common at M h o w from February to June. In his description, which is fuller than Walker's, he does not remark that the oblique line on the fore wings is, like that on the hind wings, reflexed towards the costa before the apex; indeed, the markings on both wings are identical. In other species of the genus the line on the fore wing runs into the apex, and the markings of the two wings are not alike. Walker described the species from a male in the Saunders collection ; the male appears to be darker and smaller than the female. 132. CRASPEDIA PERSIMILIS. Craspedia persimilis, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk. pt. iii. p. 254. One male, M a y 6,1887, from Kala Pani. |