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Show 1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 423 Hab. Karachi, Jimpir, Tatta. Two pairs taken in April 1885-6. A larger insect than S. albirenalis, Walker, and greyer in colour, with but a single, transverse, ill-defined, discal, denticulated band. GEOMETRES. E U S C H E M I D A E . MILIONIA LUCULENTA, n. sp. (Plate XLIII. fig. 3.) Deep black; wings with some bright blue streaks near the base, with a bright orange-crimson medial band across both wings; on the fore wing the band inclines from the costa before the middle to the hinder margin beyond the middle, is nearly straight in its central portion on the outer side, but bends abruptly on to both margins, and is curved on its inner side; on the hind wing the band is slightly narrower, is slightly sinuous, and extends from the abdominal margin, one third from the anal angle, to the end of the cell, where it is elbowed outwardly, and there is a small crimson spot between the end of the band and the costa. Below same as above ; antennae, head, body above and below, and legs black. Expanse of wings 2y^- inches. Hab. Andaman Islands. One example in the Indian Museum. Allied to M. butleri, Druce, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 781, pi. Ixi. fig. 4, from Sumatra, but differs in the band on the fore wing being broader and not dentate at the end of the cell; the band on the hind wing is narrow and disposed across the middle of the wing. ENNOMIDHE. CROCALLIS BILINEARIA, n. sp. Allied to Crocallis angularia, Moore. Male and female. Yellowish fawn-colour, thickly irrorated with minute, ill-defined, blackish atoms, which are more or less confluent, and form short, transverse, indistinct strigae ; a blackish spot with a white centre at the end of the cell in both wings; a postmedial, brownish, indistinct line, outwardly edged with white, across both wings, recurved in fore wings, slightly sinuous in hind wing, and an antemedial, brownish, outwardly curved line across fore wing; this line is not nearly so distinct as the other, and is obsolete in some specimens; a very indistinct, antemedial, erect, diffused line on the fore wing. Hind wings paler than fore wings; marginal line reddish brown, fringe white ; scollops on fore wing (which are less in the male than in the female) formed as in C. angularia. Underside paler, colour uniform, markings as above. Expanse of wings 2f^ inches. Hab. Kassaoli; one specimen from the late Capt. Reed's collection. Kulu; two specimens from the Indian Museum. Near to G. angularia, but differs from it in its colour and in the much less prominent transverse lines, of which the antemedial line on the fore wing is erect, straight, and somewhat outwardly oblique, this line in C. angularia being outwardly curved and angulated on |