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Vol. XVI. BOMBAY. No- 3- 



DESCRIPTION OF NEW SPECIES OF MOTHS 

 FROM INDIA AND BURMA. 



By G. C. Dudgeon, f.b.s. 



(Read before the Bombay Natural History, Society on 6th July 1905 ) 



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CHALCOSIIN^. 



SOKITIA VIBIDIBASALIS, n. sp. 



$. Head, thorax, first three abdominal segments dorsally and 

 whole of hindwing, which latter is unmarked, fuscous brown ; terminal 

 segments of abdomen dorsally and laterally light blue ; breast, under- 

 surface of abdomen and first joint of palpus buff-white; collar crimson. 

 Forewing rather narrow, dark brown with an almost straight, pale 

 primrose, oblique postmedial band from the costa at the end of the 

 cell to the posterior angle, this band is about 2£ millimetres in width 

 throughout and farther from the base than that of nigribasalis, 

 Hmpsn. ; all veins and interspaces on the basal two-thirds of the wing- 

 nearly as far as the pale band suffused with green ; veins from just 

 before the pale band and beyond it defined with blue-green, within 

 these limits there is no suffusion in the interspaces. Underside fus- 

 cous brown without the green suffusion ; the postmedial band broader 

 with a curved subapical light-blue band beyond it ; hindwing with the 

 whole of the cell, a streak on each side of vein lc. and a submarginal 

 series of four lunules light -blue. 



