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Show 1888.] FROM W E S T E R N INDIA. 327 148. SCOTOSIA EXPANSA. (NO. 157.) Scotosia expansa, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atk. iii. p. 274. Scotosia venimaculata ?, Butler, P. Z. S. 1886, p. 393. One female and five males from Thundiani, August and September, 1886 ; " very common." Mr. Moore gives Darjiling and the Himalayas as other localities. 149. SCOTOSIA DUBIOSATA. (NO. 121.) Scotosia dubiosata, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxv. p. 1352. One female from Thundiani, August 19, 1886. 150. SCOTOSIA C O N T U R B A T A . (NO. 195.) Larentia conturbata, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxvi. p. 1703. Three females and five males from Thundiani, August 19, 1886. Two of the males have the fore wings suffused with dull ochreous, which forms a fascia on either side of the central dark band. 151. SCOTOSIA NIGRALBATA, sp. n. (No. 102.) Fore wing sooty black; brownish black, when worn ; the usual lines marked by a series of snow-white dots on the viens, two of which, in the submarginal line, are larger and conspicuous, as is one on the costa before the apex ; a broad white blotch runs obliquely from the costa to tbe middle of the hind margin, and across it two undulating dark lines are visible ; fringes mottled black and white. Hind wing sooty, with the apical fringes white. Head, thorax, and abdomen sooty. Underside dull sooty; with the white patch, the spot at the anal angle, and the costal spot also white. Expanse of wings 44-48 millim. Two females and three males from Thundiani, August 1886. There are also two specimens from Sikkim in the British Museum collection, taken by Major Elwes. " Fairly common in August." 152. PHIBALAPTERYX NIGROVITTATA, sp. n. (No. 133.) Fore wings wood-coloured, almost wholly suffused with dark brownish black, the pale ground-colour being confined to a diffuse streak along the costa, and two oblique lines on the inner margin, bordering tbe dark central fascia ; the whole wing is traversed bv a succession of dark brown and light brown wavy oblique lines, which are all obscurely reflexed towards the costa; the base on the inner margin, a broad oblique central band, which below the apex is diverted into the hind margin, and the hind margin itself all dark brown ; submarginal line wavy, distinct, preceded first by a narrow pale fascia, and then by a broader one; veins dusted black and white ; fringes dark brown, with a basal row of short, thick, black dashes. Hind wings grey-brown, occupied by a succession of dark and light grey wavy lines, towards the costa paler and without distinct markings ; head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Underside dull grey, speckled with darker, with the veins and central spot dark. Expanse of wings 36 millim. 23* |
