1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 297 



LlPARID^. 



74. Olene mendosa. 



Olene mendosa, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. iii. 19, 147, 

 f. 293, 294. 



Poona, I^ovember. 



75. Olene olearia, n. sp. (Plate XX. figs. 14 cJ, 15 $ .) 

 Pcona, July and December. 



S ■ Glossy olive-brown, whitish beneath : antennse brown, deeply 

 pectinated ; abdomen with a whitish raised spot above the anal tut't ; 

 thorax orange in front. Eore wings with an embossed orange spot 

 near the base ; all the veins brown ; with some pale longitudinal 

 streaks in the interspaces, especially so near the apes, giving the 

 whole wing the appearance of a mass of longitudinal streaks from 

 base to outer border, with the disk of the wing the darkest part of it. 

 Hind wings with some few faint streaks, but altot^ether paler than 

 the fore wings. 



$ . Pale testaceous, with a slight reddish-yellow tinge ; fore wings 

 longitudinally streaked with brown throughout the centre of it ; 

 hind wings whitish, slightly streaked with brown in the centre. 

 Underside paler, with a subapical longitudinal brown streak in the 

 fore wings and the pale brown streaks in the hind wings showing 

 through. 



Expanse of wings, S 1^ inch, 2 1^ inch, 



76. Olene fusiformis. (Plate XX. fig. 8 cj .) 

 $. Nioda fusiformis, Walker, v. p. 1070. 

 Poona, September ; Bombay, November. 



cJ . Antennfe deeply pectinated. Antennae, thorax, and fore 

 wings brown ; abdomen testaceous ; head yellowish. Fore wings with 

 the outer margin paler, an embossed yellowish spot at the base ; 

 basal, median, and outer thin latitudinal lines black and indistinct, 

 first nearly straight, second curved inwardly, third sinuous and 

 toothed ; hind wings whitish. Underside whitish, darkest towards 

 the centre of the fore wings. 



Expanse of wings 1^*^ inch. 



At Poona Mr. Taplin took the larvae on Ziziphus jujuba ; Major 

 Pitcher, Assistant Superintendent of Agriculture N. W. P., sent me 

 some he found feeding on imported New Orleans cotton-plants ; the 

 Poona larvae were 25 days feeding and became from 1 to I5 inch in 

 length before turning; pupal stage 9 to 15 days. 



77. Porthesia marginalis. 

 Euproetis marginalis, Walker, vii. p. 1731. 

 Poona, September to April, very common. 



78. EUPROCTIS decussata. 



Euproetis decussata, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877, 

 p. 4.37. 



Poona, February ; Bombay, September and December. 



