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Show 1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 419 form reddish colour, P. platymitris being dark brown with pale central bands. In P. dulciculalis the band on the fore wing is broader and of nearly the same reddish tint as the base and outer border. ZONORA, nov. gen. Male and female. Fore wings long, narrow, exterior margin convex, slightly oblique, posterior margin oblique towards the base; palpi of the male long, depressed, twice the breadth of the head, thick at the base and curving to a very fine point at the tip, of the female very short, also depressed, pointed at the tip and not so long as the breadth of the head ; antennae of the male bipectinated, of the female simple but rather thick, basal joint of male straight and of uniform width; cell of fore wing in male extending two thirds the length, first subbasal branch starting at about one fourth before end of cell, second close to the end, third trifid, sixth contiguous to base of third, discocellular not visible ; lower median at nearly one fourth before end of cell, submedian slightly recurved ; hind wing rather broad, exterior margin and anal angle rounded ; cell more than half the length ; costal and subcostal running close together to end of cell, subcostal two-branched ; discocellular bent acutely inward, radial from near lower end ; lower median from nearly one third before end of cell; submedian and two internal veins wide apart. Allied to the genus Hypotia. ZONORA OPIPARALIS, n. sp. (Plate XLIV. fig. 11.) Male and female. Top of head and front of thorax white; thorax and fore wings reddish brown, with a pale greenish bronzy tinge, a white stripe on each side of the thorax ; palpi and antennae grey ; fore wings with a subcostal white stripe, a white streak at the apex; five large white spots, one at the middle of the base bending down on to the hinder margin, the second diamond-shaped, in the centre of the wing before the middle, the third long, ovate and medial just below the subcostal stripe, the fourth curved upwards exactly below the third and close to the hinder margin, and the fifth long, ovate, and just above and in front of the fourth, with its outer end touching a white submarginal line of spear-shaped marks ; fringe brown, with white marks. Hind wings greyish white, with a submarginal central dentate brownish line, and with the marginal border brownish, the brown colour at the apex and central portion running into the white fringe of the wing. Underside greyish white, with the markings on the upper portions of the fore wings showing through the wing. Abdomen grey, with one or two white segmental bands at the base ; body and legs below grey, without markings. Expanse of wings, 3 1> 2 ly2-! inch. Hab. Lower Sind. Hydrabad, I 3 , April 1886 ; Juda, 1 $ , February 1886 ; and Kipra, 1 2 , February 1886. Allied to Z. concatenalis, from Syria, which has somewhat similarly disposed, but differently shaped, markings on the fore wings. |
