1885.] OI- BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 4/3 



colour ; abdomen whitish testaceous. Thorax with a black line in front. 

 Fore wings with a black .spear-shaped mark pointing inwards, on the 

 interno-median interspace, with a black dot on the outside above it ; 

 these spots are wanting in some specimens ; four brown sinuous 

 lines, the first antemedial, the second medial, almost meeting 

 together on the hinder margin, the second line elbowed outwards, 

 opposite the orbicular stigma, which is represented by a brown dot ; 

 third line postmedial, commencing somev\hat nearer the second line 

 on the costa, ciu-ves widely round the reniform spot, which is small 

 and brown-coloured ; this line bends inwardly, with one long tooth, 

 which nearly touches the second line ; there is also a submarginal 

 straightish line, which in some specimens is diffused, and iu some 

 dotted ; marginal points black ; fringe yellow. 



Hind wings dirty whitish, unmarked. 



Expanse of wings ly-^- inch. 



199. Pasira inscitia, n. sp. 



Bombay, July and August. 



. General colour yellowish fawn-colour. Fore wings with four or 

 five deep black spot?, two representing the orbicular and reniform 

 marks, one large one in the interno-median interspace, and one, 

 sometimes two, in a straight line above it ; all these spots are ver)- 

 prominent ; marginal line brown, slightly dentated. Hind wings 

 with faint medial, discal, and submarginal pale brownish thin bands, 

 marginal line brown, slightly dentated. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



200. Herminia orthosiana, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 15.) 



Bombay. 



Pale reddish, covered with brown atoms. Fore wings with the 

 reniform stigma represented by a brown dot on a white ground, 

 lines brown, sinuous, uj)right, antemedial, medial, postmedial, and 

 discal, rather close together, and edged with pale pinkish on the 

 inner sides ; marginal points black, with white lunules on the inner 

 side. Hind wings reddish testaceous, with a brown mark at the end 

 of the cell. 



Expanse of wings lyL inch. 



201. Herminia velifera, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 17.) 



Poona, October. 



Pale pinkish white, powdered with black atoms and marked and 

 streaked with black. The long palpi are nearly covered with black; 

 thorax with a black band in front, and a black mark in the centre ; 

 fore wings covered with black and grey irroralions, thickly in the cell, 

 at the end of which is a black spot ; a black streak below from the 

 base, running nearly the whole length of the wing; a black streak 

 on the hinder margin, and between these streaks are other black 

 fainter streaks and lines ; there are also some submarginal black 

 streaks ; fringe brown. Hind wings pinkish grey, the colour formed 



