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Show 1886.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM WESTERN INDIA. 393 L ARENTIID^E.1 168. MELANTHIA RESTITUTA. Melanippe restitutata (sic), Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxv. p. 1297 (1862). Campbellpore, July; Murree, 2nd August, 1885. The Melanthia gratuluta of Walker, from Vancouver, is Packard's Rheumaptera brunneicillata. 169. SCOTOSIA DUBIOSATA. Scotosia dubiosata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxv. p. 1352. n. 21 (1862). Murree, 8th September; Bugnoter, 19th September, 1885. " Not uncommon."-J. W. Y. 170. SCOTOSIA VENIMACULATA. Scotosia venimaculata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 657. Thundiani, 24th September, 1885. The single specimen sent is of a greyish-brown tint, with a pale golden or bronze gloss ; it shows no trace of the rosy suffusion commonly seen on the wings of Darjiling specimens ; all the markings are, however, identical, and it is possible that the absence of the reddish colouring may be due to fading or to individual variation. 171. CIDARIA PERPULCHRA, sp. n. Allied to C. aurata and C. aliena ; nearest to the former, but differing in the dark-grey instead of copper-brown basal area of the primaries, the much more irregular band following it, owing to the different form of the dark postmedian belt ; the latter (which is blackish grey instead of brown) commences transversely instead of obliquely, is deeply bisinuated, and forms an angle at the median vein, it is wider than in C. aurata as far as the second median branch, and its anterior edge, instead of being narrowly incised on the lower radial interspace, is cleft so as to form a wide >-shaped incision; the external border is much less rufous and the pale markings upon it are paler and of twice the width ; the secondaries are almost white instead of pale grey-brown ; the series of silver spots on the under surface of the secondaries is wanting. Expanse of wings 29 millim. Murree, 8th August, 1885. This species in coloration more nearly resembles C. corylata than either of the two others of the same group. 172. CIDARIA JAMEZA? Cidaria jameza, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 452 (1878) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. p. 58, pi. Iv. fig. 9 (1879). Murree, 20th August, 1885. The single worn specimen in the collection is rather larger than Japanese examples, but I can discover no other difference. 1 The collection contains a Eupithecia, but it is too much worn for identification. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1886, No. XXVI. 26 |