302 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [Mar. 1 7, 



108. CoRMA ERNESTiNA, n. sp. (Plate XX. fig. 2c?.) 



Bombay, August and September. 



d' 2 • Antennae, head, thorax, and fore wings brownish grey, 

 with a faint flesh-coloured tinge. A brownish streak along the 

 subcostal nervure ; another along the medial nervure, and another 

 along the hinder margin ; hind wings and abdomen greyish white, 

 cilia white ; underside paler, unmarked ; the hind wings and body 

 pure white. 



Expanse of wings 2 -jljinches. 



109. Phalera bobi, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 6.) 



Bombay, September. 



Allied to Phalera raya, Moore, from Darjiling. Fore wing 

 glistening greyish brown, marked very much as in P. raya, but there 

 is a deep black band on the basal third of the hinder margin, and the 

 outer double sinuous line from the apical patch blackens into a diffused 

 patch on the hinder margin ; eyes and fore part of the head deep 

 black, top of the head yellowish white ; antennae aud thorax dark 

 brown ; sides of the thorax white ; abdomen yellowish, with brown 

 bands on each segment ; hind wing above and both wings below soot- 

 brown. 



Expanse of wings 4^^ inches. 



bombycid^. 



110. Trilocha varians. 



Naprepa varians, Walker, vii. p. 1153. 



Poona, August ; Sattara, June ; Bombay, September to December. 



The male is yellowish fawn-colour ; Mr. Moore's drawing in pi. xi. 

 A. f. C, vol. ii. Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, fairly represents the markings 

 of this sex ; but the general coloration is too dark ; the female is 

 pale mouse-colour with a slight reddish tint on the hind wings, the 

 markings showing very faintly, often quite obsolete. 



I U. Thiacides postica. (Plate XXI. figs. 1, 1 « larva, 2 $ .) 

 Thiacides postica. Walker, v. p. 1028. 



Bombay, September to November, common. 



Larva feed on Ricinus communis ; the larva covered the walls of my 

 garden in October ; I put a number into a breeding-cage ; two turned 

 into pupae on the 24th idem, and the moths emerged on the 

 20th December following ; all the other larvae hybernated at the end 

 of October, and I took them on board ship in that state on the 6th 

 of March following ; but the cold in the Red Sea killed them all. 



LlMACODID^. 



I I 2. NaTADA VELUTINA. 



Gastroparcha velutina, KoUar, Kasch. von Hiigel, p. 4/3, 3. 

 Poona, July. 



