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Show 1881.] WESTERN INDIA, BELOOCHISTAN, ETC. 621 " Very common in February, March, May, July, August, September, and November."-C. S. PYRALIDiE. 91. S T E M M A T O P H O R A INGRATA, sp. n. Primaries above whity brown; two white-bordered black dots placed transversely above one another at basal fourth; an irregularly falciform line beginning at about the middle of the inner margin, running obliquely upwards to the median vein, and then abruptly elbowed and sweeping outwards in a semicircle to the costal margin at apical sixth, white with brown internal border ; secondaries white, apical border brownish ; thorax whity brown, abdomen white: under surface pure silky white. Expanse of wings 6| lines. Two rubbed specimens. Kurrachee, May 1880. 92. HYPOTIA VULGARIS, sp. n. (No. 17). Greyish brown: primaries above with a large patch of whity brown occupying nearly the whole of the basal third, which is limited externally by a dusky-bordered zigzag white stripe; a white spot, bounded on each side by a blackish dot, within the end of the cell ; a dusky-bordered white zigzag band immediately beyond the cell, varied with pale buff or whity brown, speckled with grey, and diffused above the second median branch ; a submarginal whitish dash across the third median and lower radial interspaces, and an oblique costal white dash close to apex ; a marginal series of white-edged blackish points ; fringe alternately greyish brown and white ; in some specimens nearly the whole surface of the primaries is pale buff, only the area between the white bands being streaked or clouded with greyish brown, the inner white stripe or band being less zigzag, the marginal line wholly white, and the fringe spotted at the base with blackish (this would seem to be the more typical male form) : secondaries sericeous, with diffused dusky border, usually with a sub-marginal series of white spots ; fringe sordid white at base, pure white at tips, and traversed by two grey lines : thorax whitish. Under surface pale greyish brown ; wings slightly darker towards the outer margin, and with an indistinct subapical whitish streak; a scarcely perceptible slender whitish marginal line ; fringe as above ; internal area of primaries whitish. Expanse of wings 9-12 lines. Five specimens. Kurrachee, December 1879 and April 1880. Also common in May, August, and November. ENNYCHIID^S. 93. R H O D A R I A ARIDA, sp. n. Primaries above sandy buff, with reddish costal margin spotted with blackish ; central third occupied by a broad greyish belt with pale buff borders; a greyish diffused submarginal stripe; fringe erev, whitish at the base and traversed by a darker grey line : secondaries greyish brown, with fringe as in primaries : thorax testaceous ; abdomen greyish brown. Under surface sericeous whity brown ; pri- |
