OCR Text |
Show 1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 425 the fore wing not being angulated on its outer margin: the fore wing in Colotois kumetaria is decidedly triangular, with the outer margin angulated in the middle. The hind wing in the latter insect is also shorter and broader. O X Y D 1 D JE. O M I Z A MILIARIA, n. sp. Male. Head, body, and wings dark green, sparsely irrorated with black ; an antemedial outwardly-curved blackish band at one third from the base on the fore wings, and a straight blackish band from the apex of the fore wings (where it is forked on to the costa) to the abdominal border of the hind wings at one third from the angle, and the fore wings with a blackish cell-spot and a blackish sub-marginal central patch, but this is obsolete in some specimens. Hind wings with the costal space whitish ; antennae with the underside of the shaft white, upperside and plume pale green; abdomen with a blackish subbasal band, and on one very pure green specimen there are two blackish bands below the centre. Underside pale green suffused with yellowish ; markings and bands on fore wings as above, but very distinct, and the irrorations more dense at the base of the wings; hind wings without the band, and with the costal portion strongly irrorated, and on the apex of the fore wings, in the place of the fork on the upperside, there is a white patch : body ochreous; legs green above, ochreous beneath ; cilia dark brown. Female. Head, body, and wings plum-colour, paling to reddish violet in some specimens ; antennae pale greenish grey. Below the coloration is much paler and of a burnt-sienna colour, especially so on the hind wings. Markings above and below as in the male, but on the wings above, in consequence of their dark coloration, the markings are hardly visible ; the band across both wings has a broad shade on its outer side, and there is a similar shade on the outer margin of the fore wings; there is also a discal spot on the hind wings below, and the legs are plum-coloured above and pale burnt-sienna below, like the body and the general coloration of the wings. Expanse of wings, 3 l-j********-, 2 2y\-* inches. LLab. Nilgiri Hills. Five pairs, in excellent condition, received from Mr. Hampson, in whose collection are some specimens of different tints of colour, varying from chrome-yellow to drab and brick-red in the males. Distinguishable from its ally O. pachiaria by the shorter and comparatively broader wings, the decidedly acute falcation of the fore wing, and the difference of colour in the two sexes ; on the underside also the colour of this insect is quite different from that of O. pachiaria. A M P H I D A S I D i E. BUZURRA VARIANARIA, 11. Sp. Male and female. Body and wings white, thickly covered all over with speckles and patches of grey, purple-brown, and ochreous ; the PROC. ZOOL. SOC-1889, No. XXIX. 29 |