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Show 1888.] FROM THE HIMALAYAS. 405 a dark chestnut vinaceous-red, with ochreous-white ciliee: fore wing with similar, but more prominent ochreous-white transverse bands, the outer band being uniformly undulated, not angulated, and not showing the discal spot seen in T. gunesa; exterior border slightly greyish speckled : hind wing with a distinct ochreous-white transverse discal narrow fascia. Head, palpi above, front and top of thorax ochreous-white ; tegulae and abdomen dark chestnut-red, the latter with very slight greyish segmental fringe. Expanse, $ 3| inches. Hab. Kangra Valley. In coll. British Museum. " Reared from pupa, spun in fern." (Hocking.) VARMINA, n. g. Fore wing elongated, triangular ; costa almost straight, slightly arched at the end, apex somewhat acute; exterior margin oblique and slightly convex ; posterior margin convex towards the base ; costal vein straight, extending to two thirds the margin; cell long and broad, extending to two thirds the wing ; first subcostal emitted at one half before end of cell; second at one fifth, third thrown off at a little beyond one half from its base and terminating before the apex ; fourth from end of the cell, curving upward and anastomosing with third for a short distance and thence recurved upward and terminating before the apex ; fifth from below fourth at a little beyond one half between its base and juncture with third ; discocellular angled close to each end, concave in the middle, radials from the angles ; middle median from angle close to end of the cell, lower median at nearly one third before end of the cell; submedian straight. Hind wing short; costa arched, apex and exterior margin convex ; cell broad, extending to two thirds the wing ; two subcostals from end of the cell; discocellular concave, radial from below its middle ; two upper medians from lower end of the cell; lower median at nearly one third before the end ; submedian and internal vein slightly recurved. Body clothed with long, lax, silky hair, anal tuft somewhat long in male, thick in female; thorax stout; antennae minutely pectinated in male ; palpi laxly pilose ; femora, tibiae, and tarsi laxly pilose. VARMINA INDICA. Gluphisia indica, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1039 (1855). Male and Female. Fuliginous-grey : fore wing with five transverse oblique zigzag dusky-black fasciae, the first, third, and fifth most distinct; the interspaces from base of wing to the fifth fascia numerously covered with minute orange-yellow spots, the outer border being bare : a grey-bordered black lunule at end of the cell, a spot in middle of the cell, and a submarginal row of short longitudinal linear grey-bordered black spots : hind wing uniformly fuliginous- grey, with an indistinct black lunule at end of the cell. Thorax greyish-white in male, pure white in female, with two transverse P R O C . Z O O L . Soc-1888, No. XXVIII. 28 |
