4f)0 LIEUT. -COL. C. SWTNHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [May 5 



22. POLYTELA GLORIOS.E. 



Bomhyx gloriosce, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 205, 150. 



Poona, July ; Bombay, July. 



Larva feed on Folianthus tuberosa : colour very dark velvety 

 maroon, with cream-colonred spots; size H- inch. They burrow 

 and eat the roots of the plant as well as the leaves. Larval stage 24 

 days ; a moth emerged occasionally, from after a few days, right up 

 to the March following ; larvae burrow into hard soil when turning 

 and form small chambers. 



Apamiid^. 



23. Prodenia retina. 



Neuria retina, Frivaldsky, Ilerr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 292, 

 Noct. pi. 29. f. 145. 



Poona, July to September ; Bombay. July to November. 



24. Prodenia glaucistriga. 

 Prodenia glaucistric/a, M'^alker, ix. 197. 

 Poona, June ; Bombay, July and August. 



25. Laphygma infecta. 



Prodenia infecta, Walker, ix. p. 196. 

 Prodenia venustvla, Walker, xxxii. p. 654. 



Poona, July, October, and November; Bombaj', August to 

 December. 



26. Laphygma exigua. 



Noctua exigua, Hiibner, Samml. enr. Schmett. Noct. f. 362. 

 Poona, September ; Bomhay, December. 



27. Apamea viriata, n. sp. 



Poona, July. 



Antennae and palpi brown ; head and body brown, marked with 

 pale pinkish grey. Fore wings dark brown ; costa with pinkish- 

 grey spots; subbasal, antemedial, and ])Ostmedial lines deep black, 

 lunular, the two former edged inwardly, and the last edged out- 

 wardly, with pinkish grey ; nearly the whole space between the 

 postmedial line and the margin more or less of the same colour, 

 forming a broad band deejdy denticulated in its centre outwardly, 

 with two teeth running into the dark-brown colour of the wing on 

 the outer margin ; marginal spots purplish grey ; fringe brown, 

 speckled with the same colour ; orbicular and reniform marks large, 

 indicated by large rings of deep black, the latter slightly excavated 

 outwardly ; hind wing whitish, with a deep costal and marginal 

 suffused greyish border ; fringe pinkish grey, edged with white. 



Closely allied to A. latifasciata, Moore, *P. Z. S. 1881, p. 345. 



Expanse of wings \-f'■^^ inch. 



