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Show 1886.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M W E S T E R N INDIA. 389 This species, when fresh, is decidedly greenish, and therefore contrasts strongly with the allied H. swinhoei, recently captured specimens of which are decidedly reddish. BoARMIIDiE. 152. BOARMIA TTERATA, Sp. n. Near to B. repandaria of Europe, the basal area of the wings more or less suffused with grey, all the markings much more strongly defined excepting the pale submarginal stripe, which is indistinct and less perfectly dentate-sinuate; the first and second black lines on the secondaries are also twice the width apart; the under surface is greyish white instead of sandy buff, and the primaries are strongly clouded with blackish. Expanse of wings 41 to 47 millim. Murree, 24th and 28th August, 4th September; Kala Pani, 24th September, 1885. Boarmia iterata is a common, though unnamed, Indian species ; it is allied to B.pleniferata, but more nearly to the European insect. 153. GNOPHOS? OBTECTARIA. Gnophos obtectaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het, Suppl. v. p. 1597 (1866); Butler, 111. Typ. Lep. Het. vi. p. 66, pi. cxvi. fig. 8 (1886). d, Murree, 8th September, 1885. This species should be separated from Gnophos, as the antennae of the male are distinctly bipectinated ; it may perhaps prove to belong to one of the many allied genera already characterized in this family. Only one worn specimen was sent by Major Yerbury. 154. GNOPHOS? P^ERLITA, sp. n. Allied to G. obtectaria : granite-grey, all the ordinary markings on the upper surface indistinct, centre of the wings slightly paler than the remainder of the surface, so as to give the appearance of a diffused band, this in the primaries is partly bounded by an abbreviated zigzag blackish line, and on the secondaries by a series of blackish dots on the veins; there is also a blackish spot at the end of each discoidal cell; the external border is slightly ash-coloured, with a faintly indicated paler zigzag inner edging, the fringe is traversed at the base and in the middle by slender pale lines, and the abdominal fringe is white : below pure white, the wings with black discocellular spots and a broad blackish external border; fringe spotted with white ; legs greyish above. Expanse of wings 48 millim. Kala Pani, 24th September, 1885. There is a series of this obscure-looking species in Mr. Moore's collection. 155. GNOPHOS DISPUNCTATA. Gnophos dispunctata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxi. p. 469. n. 28 (1869). Murree, 4th September, 1885. " A single specimen, sitting with open wings on a nek."- /. TV. Y. |
