116 LAEENTIID.E. 



enclosing four or five wliite spots : thorax greyish, blackish at the sides and with a black 

 band behind ; abdomen white. Under surface silver-gi'ey ; markings indistinct. Expanse 

 of wings 20-21 millim. 



Dliarmsala ; at sugar in October. 



A series of examples was ol)tained, but all more or less worn. 



LOBOPHORA, Curt. 



Lobophora rufinotata. (Plate CXXXVII. fig 13.) 



9 . Primaries white, irrorated with pale greenish grey and crossed by numerous zigzag 

 parallel lines of the same colour; an angular subbasal black line emitting spurs on the veins, 

 central Ijand represented by two or three ill-defined forked interrupted undulated black lines ; 

 two irregularly undulated black parallel submarginal lines ; external area traversed by two 

 reversed undulated greeuish-grcy lines, enclosing four central brick-red rounded spots ; a 

 black marginal line; fringe sprinkled with black scales: secondaries sericeous white, with 

 two parallel greyish lines near the outer margin ; a blackish marginal line ; fringe with 

 greyish outer edge : body sordid pale buff varied with grey. Under surface pearly white ; 

 markings of primaries indicated by greyish bands, secondaries with only one grey line; legs 

 banded with grey. Expanse of wings 41 millim. 

 Kulu, SOOO feet ; on wall of house ; October. 



THERA, Stejjh. 



Thera consimilis. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 14.) 



Thera consimilis, Wan-en, I'roc. Zool. Soc. 1888, p. 326. n. 146. 



Nearly allied to T.juniperata of Europe; of tlie same colours; considerably larger; the 

 subbasal black lino more acutely angulatcd in the male, in the female unequal, zigzag, and 

 shaded internally so as to form an ill-defined subbasal baud ; the postmedian band edged 

 internally from costa to median vein by a straight oblique black line, the corresponding outer 

 edge of the band is also oblique and much more regular; the lower portion of the band is 

 narrower in the male and jiartly divided into contiguous spots, but in the female it is wider, 

 the lowest division is blackened and its inner edge is very oblique ; tlie whole of the markings 

 on the externa] area arc more strongly defined and the grey line on the secondaries is undu- 

 lated: the under surface of the secondaries is white. Expanse of wings, ^ 32 millim., 

 ? 38 millim. 



cJ, Uiiarnisala [llockiny) ; ?, Afghanistan in September i^Ciipt. A. For/escue) ; ^ ?, 

 Thuudiani and Nandar [Major Yerburij), 



