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Show 336 MR. W. WARREN ON LEPIDOPTERA [June 5, Family PHYCITID_E. 189. ANERASTIA, ? sp. Two examples, probably distinct, from Campbellpore, 26 and 30 May, 1886, both terribly worn, and without palpi. 190. ACROBASIS NIGRESCENS, Sp. n. Fore wings blackish grey, with two transverse pale lines; the first distinct, white, oblique and slightly curved before the middle ; immediately beyond this line the costa is broadly darker, and the inner margin before it; the second line is grey, submarginal, and bordered on each side with darker; fringes grey, with a row of black dots at their base ; in the centre of the costa is a paler space with two grey wedge-shaped marks below it, each mark containing an arrow-headed black spot. Hind wing and fringes dark grey, somewhat diaphanous. Head, thorax, and abdomen blackish. Expanse of wings 20 millim. One female from Kala Pani, September 1, 1886. 191. SPERMATOPHTHORA (?) PULVERULENTA, sp. n. Fore wing grey, powdered with darker, mealy-looking, with no traces whatever of spots or markings. Hind wing white, with veins and hind margin fuscous; head and thorax like the fore wing ; abdomen paler. Expanse of wings 18 millim. One female, July 23, 1886, Campbellpore. 192. MYELOIS (?) CARNEA, sp. n. Fore wing smooth, dull salmon-colour, with the costa broadly, and the hind margin narrowly, greyish white, intermixed with darker atoms ; a fine pale transverse line before the middle, only distinct on the inner margin ; with a fine black dot on its outer edge above the inner margin; a similar, but sinuous, submarginal line, with a black dot before it near the costa ; fringes salmon-colour. Hind wings white, with the veins and hind margin fuscous; cilia whitish ; face and palpi pinkish grey ; thorax and (probably) the abdomen salmon-coloured. Expanse of wings 18 millim. One female, Campbellpore, June 8, 1886. The only example sent being a female, it is impossible to state positively to which genus it belongs. Myelois convergens, Erschoff, Fedtschenko, Reise, Lep. p. 86, pi. vi. fig. 98, and Myelois urbicella, id. fig. 99, both from Turkestan, appear nearly related to the present species. 193. CANTHELIA LUCIDA, sp. n. Fore wings pale yellowish olive, with the basal patch, a central streak, another beyond the end of the cell, and the extreme hind margin lucid pink. Hind wings yellowish white, with pinkish hind margin. Flead, thorax, and abdomen yellowish olive. Expanse of wings 14 millim. One female only, from Campbellpore, May 26, 1886. Possibly only a variety of C. cegnusalis. |