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Show 1881.] WESTERN INDIA, BELOOCHISTAN, ETC. 615 62. HYPERYTHRA PHANTASMA, sp. n. (No. 35). Sordid creamy whitish or very pale stone-colour; wings sparsely speckled with grey and crossed by three equidistant olivaceous slightly arched lines, basal area to the second line slightly obscured, external area from the third line to the margin washed with olivaceous greenish; tegulae and abdomen slightly darker than the rest of the body. Wings below cream-colour, the external area slightly darker and limited by a grey line rej resenting the third line of the upper surface ; body brownish white. Expanse of wings 1 inch 6 lines. One female. Kurrachee, February 1880. Said to be rare. It is hardly likely to be the female of H. swin-hoei, the latter being taken in November and having a more typical style of coloration with less regular lines across the wings. H. phantasma is an unusually colourless species, the under surface (which is usually far more brilliant than the upper surface) being almost uniformly creamy whitish. GEOMETRID^E. LOXOCHILA, gen. nov. Allied to Tanaorhinus and Geometra. From the former it differs in its more perfectly pectinated male antennae, its shorter palpi, less falcate primaries, and in the second and third median branches of these wings being emitted at the same point from the inferior angle of the cell; from the latter in its shorter palpi, the shorter discoidal cell of the primaries, and the simultaneous emission of the median branches noted above ; the male antennae are scarcely so fully pectinated as in Geometra, as the apex remains bare. Type L. smaragdus {Tanaorhinus smaragdus, Butl.). 63. LOXOCHILA MUTANS, sp. n. (No. 28). Wings above pale sandy buff, probably dull sea-green when fresh (showing traces of this colour in some specimens), crossed in the middle from second third of costal margin of primaries to just beyond the middle of the abdominal margin of secondaries by a white line bordered internally by a line darker than the ground-colour; primaries with a second divergent transverse white line across the basal third; fringe of all the wings white s thorax of the same colour as the primaries; abdomen white; crest of head white ; antennae sandy yellowish. Under surface white, the costal borders of the wings, apical area of primaries, and a tint on the pectus and le°*s sandy buff, probably green in fresh specimens. Expanse of wings 1 inch 8-10 lines. One specimen. Neilgherries. In addition to the example sent by Major Swinhoe (which shows no trace of the original green coloration), we have three specimens formerly in the collection of Mr. Norrisl, which show distinct 1 Some of the species in this collection were described by Walker; and • the types of the Indian forms were purchased by Mr. Moore. |