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Show 396 COL. C. SWINHOE ON N E W [Nov. 5, 2. On New Indian Lepidoptera, chiefly Heterocera. By Col. C. SWINHOE, F.L.S., F.Z.S. [Received July 23, 1889.] (Plates XLIII. & XLIV.) At the request of the Trustees of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, Mr. E. C. Cotes and I have made a catalogue of the Moths of India, which has been lately published. As I have had to do the work of classification, it has been my good fortune to have had the examination of the collections of the Indian Museum, Calcutta, and of the Phayre Museum, Rangoon, entrusted to me, as also of private collections from many parts of the Indian Region, which Mr. Hampson, Mr. Wise, Major Yerbury, and others have very kindly placed at my disposal. In comparing these with my own large collection of moths I have found many new and unrecorded species, some of which I now describe. Along with these are characterized a few new butterflies, the manuscript descriptions of which have been ready for some time, waiting an opportunity for publication. I have, as usual, presented types of all the species herein described to the British Museum. RHOPALOCERA. NYMPHALIDAE. « SATYRIN^E. Y P T H I M A JOCULARIA, n. sp. Male and female. Above and below as in Y. huebneri, but the hind wing above has a suffused submarginal whitish band attenuated at both ends, making this species a link between Y. huebneri and Y. ceylonica, which has the lower half of the hind wing above pure white. Expanse of wings, 3 l-fo, 2 ly6o* inch. Hab. Mahableshwar, April and May 1887. Thirty-one examples taken. NYMPHALIN^E. CYNTHIA SALOMA, n. sp. Male. Dull ochreous, basal area and marginal border darker densely irrorated with reddish grey with a greenish tinge ; markings as in C. asela, but the coloration is altogether different, and the band between the medial line and the outer border is much paler than either in C. erota or in C. asela, giving it the appearance of a dull pale whitish greyish-ochreous band, which gradually darkens on the lower half of the hind wing and becomes suffused into the darker colour of the marginal border. |