1885.] OF BOMBAY AND THE DECCAN. 879 



end, radials from the angles ; middle median at one eighth before 

 end of cell, lower at three fifths; submedian straight. Hind wings 

 long, exterior margin very oblique, convex, abdominal margin short ; 

 cell extending half the length ; sulicostal curved upward from end 

 of cell, and slightly touching the costal ; discocellular slender, bent 

 outward in middle, lower end longest and very oblique, radial from 

 middle of upper end, two upper medians from acute end of cell, 

 second from near the end, first or lower at nearly one half before the 

 end ; submedian and internal vein wide apart. Body long, slender, 

 abdomen slightly tufted at tip ; labial palpi porrect, compressed at 

 the sides, lanceolate, laxly squamose beneath, extending half their 

 length beyond the eyes ; maxillary palpi tufted in front ; proboscis 

 slender ; antennae in male stoutly bipectinated, the branches minutely 

 ciliated ; antennae in female setose ; legs moderately slender, middle 

 and hind spurs slender. 



189. Charltona kala, n. sp. (Plate LVII, fig. 4, S •) 

 Sattara, June. 



Male and female. Wings glossy. Fore wings fuliginous black. 

 Hind wings pale brownish cinereous. Thorax, head, palpi, and fore 

 legs fuliginous black ; abdomen, middle and hind legs brownish 

 cinereous, anal tuft fuliginous brown ; antennae ochreous in male, 

 black in female. 



Expanse of wings, cJ 1 xV' ? ^V i^^'^- 



190. ErOMENE BELLA. 



Eromene bella, Hiibner, Tin. f. 69. 

 Poona, November. 



191. SURATTHA INVECTALIS. 



Surattha invectalis, Walker, xxvii. p. 76. 

 Sattara, June ; Poona, June. 



192. Crambus partelltjs, u. sp. 



Poona, October and November ; Bombay, September and No- 

 vember. In great quantities at Poona. 



Allied to C. desistalis, Walker. Pinkish white, irrorated with 

 grey and black atoms. Fore whigs with the irrorations (which are 

 always darker and denser in the male than in the female) making 

 the costal portion dark, and forming two irregular, diffuse, very 

 oblique bands across the wing, one before the middle and the other 

 beyond it, and running up to the apex ; there is sometimes also a 

 black dot at the end of the cell. Hind wings pure white. Under- 

 side pure white, with some diffuse grey colour in the interior of the 

 fore wings of the male ; pure white and unmarked in the female. 



Expanse of wings, c? nj-1 inch, $ 1 mt^^T^O" iich. 



193. Jartheza chrysographella. 



Chilo clirysograpliella, KoUar, Hiigel's Kaschmir. p. 494 (1848). 

 Poona, September and October. 



57* 



