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Show 446 COL. c. SWINHOE ON THE [NOV. 16, 104. PHOTHEDES FRAUSA, n. sp. Yellowish cream-colour. Fore wings diffused with pinkish, costa broadly grey; an indistinct silvery sinuous inner line, which in some specimens is disconnected and in some is wanting ; a similar outward line from the outer two thirds of the hinder margin up to the apex ; this line in many specimens runs in a brownish-grey shade, and there are streaks and marks of this colour on the costa, on the hinder margin towards the base, and marginal marks ; fringe also of same colour. Hind wings in some examples slightly grey towards the outer border, in others pure pale yellowish cream-colour, paler than the ground-colour of the fore wings. Underside of the same colour but paler, more whitish, shining, and quite unmarked. Expanse of wings -fa inch. July. Quite common for a few days. A somewhat variable-looking insect, because the colours and markings are much stronger in some than in others, the grouud-colour in some females being almost pure pinkish. 105. HICCODA HERBARIA, n. sp. Upperside, body, and wings white. Fore wings sparsely irrorated with reddish-brown dots and atoms, some marks of the same colour on the costa and outer margin, a sinuous line within a diffused band, from the outer two thirds of the hinder margin to the apex ; a square blackish large spot in the disk within this band; fringe white, marked with black marks. Hind wings with the outer half shaded with pale reddish brown ; fringe pure white. Underside whitish, shaded with grey, darkest on the costa. Palpi black, last joint very minute and pure white; fore tarsi black with white bands. Expanse of wings -^ inch. June and July. 106. TARACHE NIVOSA, n. sp. (Plate XLI. fig. 14.) Head and thorax snow-white; antennae and thorax reddish grey, the latter marked with pure white within the segmants, may be altogether white in freshly emerged specimens. Fore wings reddish slate-colour, in some specimens pale brown-pink, a deep snow-white band extending along four fifths of the costa, filling nearly tbe whole basal area with the dark colour of the wings, forming an elbow upwards in the centre part of the band; a reddish indistinct line crossing the band at the basal third, just before the elbow, a spot at the base within the band, also the orbicular and reniform spots all of the general colour of the wing, clear and distinct; the dark part of the wing has white marks showing through here and there, and a brownish elbow parallel with the stigmata, giving the appearance of three spots in a longitudinal row; marginal marks white; fringe white. Hind wings in some specimens white with greyish borders, in others of a uniform pale slaty grey ; fringe white. Underside pale grey, unmarked. |
