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Show 1886.] LEPIDOPTERA OF MHOW. 441 Basal third of the hind wings clothed with long pale hairs. Underside clear greyish yellow, with the bands and marks as above but paler. Female of a uniform rufous-brown, coloured somewhat similarly to d E. undata, Blanchard. Bands dark rufous-brown, placed as in the male but much straighter, less toothed and hardly at all bent in towards the costa, and the brown spots outside the outer straight band of the fore wings are wanting in the female; antennae, head, and body dark rufous-brown. Underside pale rufous ; markings as above but much paler. Expanse of wings, o* 3^, 2 4 inches. June. DREPANULID.E. 62. ARGYRIS EXTRUSATA. Ephyra extrusata, Walker, xxii. 637 (1861). October. SATURNIID^E. 63. ANTHER^EA NEBULOSA. Anthercea nebulosa, Hutton, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1869, p. 16. Common in the jungles below Assirghur from August to October. COSSID.E. 64. PHRAGMATJECIA MINOR. Phragmataecia minor, Moore, Desc. Lep. Col. Atkinson, part i. p. 87. June. 65. BRACHYLIA ACRONYCTOIDES. Brachylia acronyctoides, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 411, pi. 34. f. June. N O C T U E s. LEUCANID,E. 66. LEUCANIA EXTRANEA. Leucania extranea, Guenee, Noct. i. 77, 104. April. 67. LEUCANIA AUREOLA. Leucania aureola, Walker, ix. 108. September, in great numbers for about a fortnight. 68. LEUCANIA INFERENS. Leucania inferens, Walker, ix. 105. Mr. Butler identified some Moths I sent him in 1882, taken in September 1881, as this species. I therefore enter it in this list, but I have no Mhow examples in my collection now, neither have I any note in my diary of Lepidoptera of having taken this insect in Mhow. |