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Show 1886.] LEPIDOPTERA F R O M WESTERN INDIA. 391 163. PHYLETIS HERBICOLENS, var. Delocharis herbicolens, Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 173. n. 141. 2, Murree, 6th September, 1885. Differs from the type in its pale greenish-grey, instead of pinky-white tint, with the bands more distinctly green instead of brown. It is allied to P. silonuria, and the variation here described seems to be the prevalent type of colouring in the males of this genus. 164. PHYLETIS INCONSPICUA, sp. n. o". Evidently allied to P. meonana. Brownish grey ; the primaries crossed at basal third by an indistinct brown line, beyond the cell by a brown-edged band, and at the outer margin by a border of the same width as the band : secondaries with the costal area and base pale buff, a brown discal line parallel to outer margin and a slender blackish marginal line ; all the wings with black discocellular dots; fringes plum-coloured at base and testaceous at the tips: thorax grey, antennae and abdomen testaceous : wings below pale buff suffused with rose-red, crossed beyond the middle by a darker, slightly arched line ; fringes grey at base, pink at tips; a black discocellular dot in all the wings • primaries with greyish discoidal area : body below pale buff tinted with pink. Expanse of wings 32 millim. Murree, 30th August, 1885. The relative number of lines across the wings differs wholly from that of P. meonaria, but the colouring seems very similar. EPIFIDONIA, gen. nov. Allied to Fidonia (F. concordaria1); differing in its more slender body, less hairy palpi, more slender and less hairy legs, acute sub-falcate primaries, the much longer discoidal cells in all the wings, and in the less angular discocellulars of the secondaries. 1 F. concordaria is a yellow-winged species similar to those of New Zealand. Mr. Meyrick, whose study of the Geometrina appears to have commenced with a Catalogue of the New-Zealand species, has proposed for some of these yellow-winged species the generic name Panthea, a name used five times previously in Zoology. In his opinion the supposed new genus is nearly allied to Larentia, whereas the whole structure of the body is totally dissimilar : the form and neu-ration of the wings bear no near relationship to those of Larentia; in the latter genus the wings are delicate, thinly scaled, much elongated, the veins lying close together, the cells prolonged towards the median vein, the second and third median branches and the radial of secondaries equidistant at their origins, whereas in the New-Zealand Fidmim the radial is halfway between the median and subcostal veins. These points should be considered in conjunction with the different structure of the antennae., palpi, legs, and, in fact, whole body, which however, M r . Meyrick considers beneath his notice, basing his classification solely upon neuration, which he indeed believes to have been modified to suit the altered shape of the wings; yet, with singular inconsistency, he states that "the shape of the wing, often employed by superficial observers, is not of the least value, being purely specific." |