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Show 1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 429 Hab. Nilgiri Hills, 3600 feet, October 1887, I $,2 3, received from Mr. Hampson and Mr. Lindsay ; North Kanara, one $ , received from Mr. Wise. Nearest to G.xanthonora, but recognizable by the entirely different colour in both sexes ; the oblique discal band crossing both the wings is broader, and in the male almost of the same colour as the base and outer border. This band also, in the female, is ill defined and nearly of the same colour as the other parts. LARENTID^E. CIDARIA MULTIFARIA, n. sp. (Plate XLIV. fig. 9.) Body and fore wings pale olive-brown, tinged with pinkish ; collar and tegulae black, with white borders, some black marks on the thorax, and a dorsal row of blackish short stripes on the abdomen ; fore wings with several deep black bands, some of which are composed of spots, every separate black mark being completely ringed with a pinkish-white line as follows :-two black dots at the base, four, a little larger, alongside, the costal one largest; then follow two more bands of black spots, with a smaller one between, and five spots, the costal one the largest, then a very broad median band, which expands upwards, and divides on the median vein, splitting into two branches up to the costa, having two small black spots on the costa between them ; this band is followed by a subapical band of three separate spots, which are transversely long, the costal one much the largest aud deeply excavated on its outer side, also an apical triangular spot, and a small dot below it; the subapical band is continued to the hinder margin, in the form of a brown sinuous line, where it terminates with two more black spots ; the spaces between the black bands are shaded with sinuous brown lines ; the median vein is white and prominent, cutting through the bands from the base to near the outer margin of the central band; the hinder margin of the wing is grey. Hind wings grey, with an outwardly curved sinuous darker post-medial line, and a faint submarginal whitish similar line; marginal line on both wings brownish, and the fringe greyish yellow, interlined and patched with brown. Underside of a uniform pale olive-brown; a brown dot at end of each cell; a discal, outwardly curved, dentated, brown line, outwardly bordered with grey, across both wings, a brown mark edged with grey below it, near anal angle ; marginal line and fringe as above. Expanse of wings ly6^ inch. LLab. Darjeeling. One perfect example of this very handsome species, purchased from Mr. Paul Mowis. Allied to C. cervinaria, but differs on the fore wing in the black transverse medial band being broader (this band being formed of three distinct portions, the two upper divided from the lower by a distinct pale line extending along that part of the median vein) and in the outer narrow irregular baud being disposed nearer the margin. |
