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Show 406 COL. C. SWINHOE ON NEW [Nov. 5, which curve outwardly, and are only apparent on some specimens. Underside pale greyish white tinged with flesh-colour, unmarked. Expanse of wings, 3 1 inch, 2 IT2*!-*!4-! ^nc^' Hab. Jurruk, Kotree, Sonda, Tatta, Karachi, all in Lower Sind; many examples taken in April 1886. A desert insect taken in sandy scrub, and very much the colour of dirty sand. It may be distinguished from all other described species of Somena by the fore wing being covered with black atoms, and by the absence of the marginal yellow spots. LYMANTRIA VIOLA, n. sp. Male. Antennae, palpi, head, thorax, and fore wings grey ; abdomen and hind wings rosy ; palpi below and at the tips, a line on the inner side of the eye, and a thin line in front of the collar rosy; the grey on the thorax of a purer and paler colour than that of the fore wings, and spotted with blackish brown ; abdomen with a dorsal row of black spots; fore wings covered with transverse, sinuous, blackish-brown bands, more or less macular on the basal half of the wing, the prominent medial (sinuous) and submarginal (dentated) bands of the female distinguishable in the male, and also a row of marginal brown spots. Hind wing with a greyish-brown spot at end of cell and sub-marginal band of same colour, which does not reach the hinder angle; also indistinct spots on the margin between the veins. Underside pale rosy grey, a grey spot at end of each cell; body rosy, a row of brown spots on each side of abdomen; femora rosy, tibiae with brown and rosy bands. Female with wing-markings much like 2 L. grandis; antennae black, palpi and thin line in front of collar bright crimson, lines on inside of eyes ochreous; head, thorax, and fore wing white; abdomen and hind wing rosy, two central rosy spots behind collar, some blackish-brown spots on the centre of thorax ; fore wings with the bands as in L. grandis, but thinner and paler, of a pale reddish-brown colour, two or three spots at the base, a subbasal outwardly curved band, a spot on the costa, another below it, and a mark near hinder margin representing the antemedial band ; medial band nearly upright, sinuous, very narrow, curving outside the lunular mark, which fills up the end of the cell and bifurcates on the costa ; sub-marginal band of disconnected spear-shaped marks, very minute marginal spots between the veins, marginal line rosy. Hind wing with a lunular greyish-brown mark at end of cell, a submarginal band as in male, minute marginal spots between the veins, and dark rosy outer margin. Underside paler, with the markings showing through ; body white, sides rosy; abdomen rosy, with two or three small brown spots on the sides ; femora crimson ; tibiae white in centre, black at the joints ; tarsi crimson, with black bands and black claws. Expanse of wings, 3 lf0 inch, 2 3TV"3T*V inches. Hab. Thanna district, near Bombay ; two males and many females, taken by me in November 1888, in the Wangni Forest. |
