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Show 620 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM [May 3, the species is not identical with T. roBusta. As, however, the latter comes from South Africa, and is less heavily marked and paler than the Indian specimens in the collection of the British Museum, I hesitate to regard the two forms as conspecific. 87. THRIA? INEPTA, sp. xx. (No. 44). Primaries above with tbe basal three fifths sordid white, crossed near the base, and again at basal third, by irregular testaceous bands, the inner one with black internal and brown external margin, the outer one with brown internal and black external margin ; a black costal dash between these bands ; an oblique brownish patch, bisinuated in front, from the costa across the end of the cell, and beyond this a black costal dot; external three fifths greyish white, limited internally by a biangulated testaceous band having a black internal and brown external margin ; disk crossed by a broadly dentate sinuate white line with testaceous outer border, and with its sinuations (on the inside) filled in with brown ; a dark brown apical spot; a slender marginal blackish line, dotted with black between the veins ; fringe white, sordid externally, and traversed by a dusky sinuated line : secondaries white, with brownish abdominal area; median vein to the commencement of the branches and the external two fifths of the wing black-brown ; an oblique marginal spot near the anal angle and the fringe white: body above sordid white. Wings below white : primaries crossed from the inner margin beyond the middle almost to the costa by two divergent brown bands, the outer one diffused, emitting longitudinal streaks outwards along the veins and joining a large black costal spot; a black spot at apex ; fringe brownish at the tips : secondaries with' brown external area as above, but slightly paler, a large black spot at about the middle of the margin, bounded inwardly by the subanal marginal white spot: body below white, venter creamy. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. One broken example, Chaman, Southern Afghanistan, May 1880. EuCLIDIIDiE. 88. TRIGONODES HYPPASIA. Phalcena hyppasia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 250. f. E (1782). Three specimens. Kurrachee, July and October, 1879. Also said to be common in January, June, and September. REMIGIID^E. 89. GlRPA OPTATURA (No. 2 l). Bemigia opatura, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xv. p. 1848 (1858). One specimen. Neilgherries. HERMINIID^E. 90. RIVULA SERICEALIS (NO. 24). Pyralis sericealis, Denis, Wien. Verz. p. 122, n. 18. Five specimens. Kurrachee, May 1879. 1 " Azazla No. 2" on label. |