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Show 616 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM [May 3, traces of green colouring similar to that of Thalera thymiaria of Europe. The only locality given is " N . India"! but there can be little doubt that they were all obtained in the Neilgherries ; " N . India" seems to represent any thing, in some collections, from Scinde to Madras. The genus Litbada of Walker appears to be allied to Loxochila and Geometra ; but its brownish colouring seems to be permanent. 64. NEMORIA PRUINOSA (No. 2). Nemoria pruinosa, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. v. p. 224. n. 19 (1880). Two specimens. Kurrachee, September 1879. "January, September, and December, not common."-0. S. 65. NEMORIA FREQUENS, sp. n. (No. 34). Wings above sap-green, minutely reticulated with silvery white, fringe cream-coloured; palpi whitish, rose-red towards the tips ; frons brown; crest and antennae white ; body above white ; wings below silky white, slightly tinted with green towards the margins ; body below silky cream-colour; front legs above slightly pink. Expanse of wings 11 lines. One specimen. Kurrachee, March 1880. Said to be common in April and November. AciDALIIDJE. 66. A C I D A L I A DISTRACTA, sp. n. (No. 30). Sandy whitish, densely irrorated with black, wings crossed in the middle by a very irregular dusky band formed by black scales on a testaceous ground, and having the appearance of two approximated lines; this band is almost divided (leaving only a slender line) upon the median interspaces of the primaries, and does not reach the costal margin of the secondaries; an indistinct dentate sinuate dusky discal line spotted upon the veins with black; a dusky undulated disco-submarginal band, interrupted in all the wings upon the radial and interno-median interspaces ; a marginal black line interrupted at the extremities of all the veins; fringe white, speckled with black ; primaries with an additional curved interrupted dusky band across the basal third ; a dusky discoidal stigma ; secondaries with a black discoidal stigma : under surface sericeous creamy white. Expanse of wings 1 inch. Three specimens. Kurrachee, February 1879, M a y 1880 "January to March and May, common."-C. S. MACARIID^E. 67. MACARIA MYANDARIA (No. 33). Macaria myandaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxvi. p. 1649 One specimen, Matheran, May 1879. |