456 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOl'TERA. [May 5, 



spots running through it ; marginal points hlack, distinct. Hind 

 wings grey ; fringe whitish. 

 Expanse of wings y^^ inch. 



68. AcoNTiA OPELLA, 11. sp. (Plate XXVII. fig. 16.) 



Poona, October. 



Antennae brown ; head brown, with a white band on each side in 

 front of the eyes ; body brown. Fore wings with the basal third 

 brown, margined with a whitish line, then a black band, followed by 

 a white line and a brown line against each other, opening out and 

 passing to the costa, one on each side of the reniform stigma, which 

 is represented by a brown streak on a whitish-grey ground ; these 

 marks are followed by a uniform grey band, a brown band which 

 expands on the costa, a reddish-grey line, which also expands on 

 the costa, filling up the apical space ; a thick blackish-brown band 

 on the lower two thirds of the outer margin, margined inwardly with 

 deep black ; a deep black marginal line ; fringe long, greyish-brown, 

 with yellowish markings. Hind wings pale soot-colour, with four 

 or five whitish spots at the apex. 



Expanse of wings y^^ inch. 



69. AcoNTiA PULLA, n. sp. (Plate XXVII. fig. 15.) 



Poona, October and November. 



Body and fore wings pale reddish-brown ; fore wings with the 

 central portion suffused with dark brown, across which are two 

 sinuous lines, one antemedial, the other postmedial ; costa and apex 

 with brown marks ; marginal line reddish ; marginal points brown ; 

 fringe pale reddish. Hind wings soot-brown ; fringe pale reddish. 



Expanse of wings y^^j- inch. 



70. Marimatha pura, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 16.) 



Poona, October. 



Greyish milky-white ; head and thorax with some deep black 

 speckles, a reddish patch at apex of fore wing, otherwise quite un- 

 marked ; fringe reddish. It is, however, a variable species. In 

 one example there are no speckles on the head and thorax ; in another 

 there are some deep black speckles in a cluster in the centre of the 

 fore wing, and in another the general colour is slightly reddish. 



Expanse of wings ^^ inch. 



// / 71. PROTHEdoES VEPRECOLA, a. Sp. 



' Poona, September and October. Very plentiful. 



Antennae, palpi, head, thorax, and fore wings brown ; abdomen 

 and hind wing whitish testaceous ; fore wing with orbicular and 

 reniform marks whitish, rather indistinct ; basal, antemedial, post- 

 medial, and submarginal whitish, very indistinct waved lines, often 

 obsolete ; some brown flecks on the wing, here and there ; fringe 

 blackish ; hind wings unmarked ; underside whitish shining, un- 

 marked. 



Expanse of wings y^^- inch. 



