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Show 1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 417 Hab. Nilgiri Hills, 6700 feet, July and August 1887. Nine males and six females received from Mr. Hampson. From the allied H. longipennis this species differs in its shorter fore wings, which are darker in colour, uniform in tint, and do not show any of the speckled appearance of that species. RHYNCHINA EREMIALIS, n. sp. Male and female of a uniform dirty sandy greyish-buff colour ; palpi thickly speckled with minute brown and black atoms ; shaft of the antennae very minutely marked with whitish, ciliated in the male, hairs whitish, simple in the female; head and thorax thickly and minutely irrorated with white, in some specimens more so than in others ; fore wings with a faint grey mark at the end of the cell, and a faint grey streak from just behind the centre of the hinder margin to the apex, more apparent in the female than in the male ; costa with some white marks towards the apex, costal line slightly darker than the rest of the wing, marginal lunular line to both wings brown, with minute whitish dots on the veins only sometimes visible ; fringe broad, whitish, marked with grey patches, and the whole surface of both wings indistinctly marked with whitish and greyish longitudinal streaks, which are only apparent under the glass. Underside paler, shining, with the longitudinal streaks more apparent, otherwise unmarked. This is a purely desert moth taken in sandy scrub, and has so much the appearance of the sand in which it is found as to be invisible to the naked eye when settled. Expanse of wings y9^ inch. Hab. Hydrabad, Kotree, Jerruck, Baraji, Tatta, all in Lower Sind. Taken in February, March, and April, 1886. Distinguished from all other described Indian species of this genus by its uniform greyish-buff colour. HERMINIIDHE. AGINNA LEVICULA, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 14.) Male and. female of a uniform brownish fawn-colour ; fore wings irrorated with brown atoms, a brown mark at the end of the cell and three transverse indistinct brown lines-first antemedial sinuous, slightly curving outwards; second and third postmedial and discal dentated outwards, rather close together, and widely separated from the first; second also outwardly curved; third nearly upright, with faint yellowish dots on the points of the dentations, also a marginal row of small black lunules. Hind wings slightly paler, more especially so towards the costa, otherwise unmarked. Underside of a uniform pale brownish fawn-colour, a brown mark at the end of the cell in both wings, and two outer brownish lines edged outwardly with pale yellowish grey across both wings, more distinct on the hind wings ; legs with brown streaks on the sides. Expanse of wings ly3^ inch. |