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Show 328 MR. W. WARREN ON LEPIDOPTERA [June 5, Two females, Thundiani, dated August 17, 1886, and April 4, 1887. " Fairly common in August." This remark applies also to P. nigripunctata, as the two species were confounded and numbered alike. 153. PHIBALAPTERYX NIGRIPUNCTATA, sp. n. (No. 133.) Fore wing dull grey-brown, varied with oblique darker lines, distinct only on the inner margiu; a dark subapical blotch on the hind margin, a smaller one obliquely beneath it, and another, more diffuse, above the anal angle; veins speckled, black and white ; a distinct black central spot ; fringes brown, preceded by a series of thick, short, black dashes. Hind wing greyer, likewise with the veins speckled dark and light ; marked by a succession of darker and paler sinuous lines or narrow fasciae, most conspicuously towards the hind margin ; central spot distinct, black ; fringes as in the fore wing. Underside pale grey, with the central spots distinct; head, thorax, and abdomen dull fuscous. Expanse of wings 32 millim. One male August 10, two females August 10 and 26, 1886. Thundiani. All three specimens are more or less worn, so that the markings are not exactly made out. It appears to be related to the common European P. tersata. PHOTOSCOTOSIA, gen. nov. Not differing in neuration from Scotosia, but separable at once by the very short globose palpi, the terminal joint of which is invisible, and by the possession of a long tuft of hairs on the underside of the fore wings in the male. These hairs are pale ochreous at their base, and velvety back at their ape.x, and extend from the base of the wing to near the bind margin, occupying the whole space between the median and submedian veins; towards the hind margin also the under surface of the wing beneath the hairs has deep black scales. Wings shaped like Scotosia, but with the hind margins plain, not scalloped; in the male the hind wing has the costa more or less broadly pale, whitish or ochreous; antennae of male faintly ciliated. Besides the two species here mentioned, there is a third, lucicolens (Butler), also from Hindostan. 154. PHOTOSCOTOSIA AMPLICATA. (NO. 162.) Cidaria amplicata, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxv. p. 1404. A single male from Thundiani, August 20, 1886 ; " rare." Also from Darjiling. 155. PHOTOSCOTOSIA MINIOSATA. (NO. 183.) Scotosia miniosata, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxv. p. 1354. One female and one male from Nandar and Thundiani, September 1887. " Uncommon, a few in September." Occurs also iu Bhootan and iu N . Hindostan. |