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Show 1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 415 PSEUDO-D ELTOIDES. FoCILLIDiE. TlIYRIDOSPILA VIRGATA, U. Sp. Male and female of a uniform violet-brown above ; fore wings of a deep black, an angular black patch on the costa near the apex, a blackish sinuous transverse line at one fourth from the base ; a broad black band in the centre, which is inwardly distinctly defined and outwardly diffuse, terminating in a faint outwardly curved sinuous line ; marginal line brown ; cilia brown, whitish at the base. Hind wing with an antememedial blackish stripe, corresponding to the inner edge of the medial band of fore wing, a discal blackish stripe of the same nature with a short blackish shade immediately below it near the abdominal border; marginal line and cilia as in fore wings. Underside of a uniform pale brown, a faint spot at the end of each cell, and three faint outwardly curved lines across both wings, antemedial, medial, and postmedial, and close together. Expanse of wings ly^ inch. LLab. Solun (Simla), June. One pair in good condition from the late Capt. Reed's collection. Smaller than T. sphceriphora : wings not angular on the outer margin ; pattern of markings similar, the precostal patch on the fore wing prominent; the orbicular mark absent. PLATYDID^E. EPISPARIS SORA, Moore, MS. Body and wings above of a uniform rosy brown, irrorated with minute white atoms, very thickly so in some parts, giving the wing the appearance of being smeared with whitish, more especially towards the base and angles of both wings ; fore wings with the costa broadly and irregularly ochreous, marked on the costal edge with white and brown ; orbicular represented by a dot, reniform by a pure white streak, inside of which is a yellow angular mark ; lines brown, faintly edged outwardly with white, first at one third from the base, dentated outwardly with two teeth, two zigzag sinuous lines rather close together beyond the middle, and a straight discal line from the hinder angle to the costa near the apex. Hind wing with only the double line, the outer one of which has two or three acute dentations opposite the produced angle of the margin ; cilia on both wings dark brown, prominent. Underside paler, white irrorations denser, making the outside of fore wings and nearlv all the hind wings whitish ; fore wings with the black orbicular and white reniform very distinct, the discal line also distinct but slightly sinuous, and inside this is another sinuous almost straight line. Hind wing with a discocellular lunular mark and with the double discal curved sinuous line, the outer one of ihe two being regularly |
