306 MR. W. WARREN ON LEPIDOPTERA [Juiie 5, 



Walker's tj'pes are from Shanghai. 



Tlie species appears peculiarly liable to grease. It is a narrower- 

 winged insect than the European G. ravida. 



57. Graphiphora canescens. (Nos. 154 & 163.) 

 Graphiphora canescens, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1878, i. 



p. 165, 



Cerastis siihdolens, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, pt. ii. p. 181. 



Two females and six males from Thundiani, August, September, 

 and October, 1886. 



Very closely allied to, if not identical with, G. dahlii of Europe. 

 As in that species, the females are usually much darker than the 

 males, though dark males are occasionally to be seen. 



58. OXIRA OCHRACEA. (Nos. 132 & 151.) 



Oxira ochracea, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 657. 



Seven males and six females from Thundiani, Ilandar, and 

 Rawal Pindi, August, September, and October, 1886 ; a single 

 female from Rawal Pindi, March 31, 1887. "Very common at 

 sugar." 



Smaller and of more slender build than G. canescens, Butler, the 

 male with j)ectinated antennae. As in that species, the fore wing of 

 the female is didl brown or brownish red, of the male more 

 reddish ochreous, though in this case also some specimens of the 

 male are as dark as the females. The markings are similar. A 

 geminated sinuous black basal and subbasal line, a curved denticu- 

 lated discal line, often immediately followed by a narrow paler fascia ; 

 a pale submarginal line, preceded on the costa by a brownish shade ; 

 orbicular stigma of the ground-colour, merely edged with darker ; 

 reniform variable, often pale-margined only, or with the upper part 

 filled up with ochreous grey, the lovifer with dark fuscous, often 

 more conspicuously paler in the female. In each sex they are 

 sometimes preceded by a black spot ; that before the orbicular being 

 triangular or wedge-shaped ; that before the reniform subquadrate ; 

 the claviform stigma is represented, as in all the allied species, by a 

 small dark dot ; an angulated central dark streak crosses the wing 

 just before the reniform stigma ; cilia of the ground-colour, with a 

 paler basal line, preceded by a series of dark lunules. Hind wing 

 dull fuscous, with reddish fringes in hoth sexes. Head and thorax 

 concolorous with the fore wings ; abdomen fuscous (darker in the 

 female), with the anal tuft reddish ; antenncc of the male pecti- 

 nated. 



Underside somewhat iridescent, pinkish ochreous, more pink 

 along the costa and hind margin of the fore wing ; hind wing with 

 a central dark spot and narrow curved band. 



After the above description (of a supposed new Graphiphora) was 

 written, made from the fourteen specimens above recorded, I dis- 

 covered that the type of Walker's Oxira ochracea, a male from 

 Ceylon, was identical. In all points, except the pectinated antennae, 

 the species agrees well with Graphiphora canescens, Butler, the 



