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Show 1881.] WESTERN INDIA, BELOOCHISTAN, E T C 619 HYPOGRAMMID^E. 82. RHIZOGRAMMA INEXTRICATA (NO. 1 *). Bhizogramrna inextricata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 342. One example. Neilgherries. This insect seems to me to come nearest to the genus Gadirtha. 83. SELEPA DOCILIS, sp. n. (No. 21). Primaries above silver-grey, the basal area irregularly spotted with blackish and limited by two irregularly dentate-sinuate^arched parallel blackish lines; a black dot with white margin at the end of the cell, followed by two arched parallel blackish lines, which form an inangulated elbow at the first median branch ; beyond these lines is an arched series of abbreviated longitudinal black dashes, followed by an alternated marginal series of similar dashes ; a marginal black spot at the extremity of the first median branch : secondaries silvery white with slight golden reflections : thorax grey ; abdomen white. Wings below silvery white, the secondaries with pearly reflections ; body below white. Expanse of wings 10 lines. Var. Markings of primaries obsolete, with the exception of the outer discal line ; the submarginal black dashes replaced by a slightly irregular greyish testaceous stripe. Expanse of wings 9| lines. Two specimens. Kurrachee, May 1879. Also said to be common in November and December. I am rather uncertain about the right position of the genus Selepa; but its palpi are rather similar to those of Gadirtha ; it also seems nearly allied to Egelesta, Plotheia, and GirBatha of Walker. The type species was, I believe, inadvertently referred by its author to the Limacodidae; but from this family the structure of the body at once distinguishes it. OPHIDERID^E. 84. OPHIDERES HYPERMNESTRA (No. 2). Phalana hypermnestra, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 323. f. A, B (1782). Two specimens. Belgaum. OMMATOPHORID^E. 85. ARGIVA HIEROGLYPHICA, var. ULULA (NO. 1). Noctua ulula, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. ii. p. 211 (1781). One specimen. Belgaum. OPHIUSID^E. 86. THRIA FUGITIVA. CerBia fugitiva, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xiv. p. 1365 (1857). One specimen. Kurrachee, May 1879. The genus CerBia must sink as a synonym of Thria, established at p. iv of the same volume; indeed I am doubtful whether even 1 Labelled as a Cucullia, which it resembles except in its long palpi. 40* |