1886. | LEPIDOPTERA FROM WESTERN INDIA. 391 
163. PHyLETIS HERBICOLENS, var. 
Delocharis herbicolens, Butler, P. Z.S. 1883, p. 173. n. 141. 
2, Murree, 6th September, 1885. 
Differs from the type in its pale greenish-grey, instead of pinky- 
white tint, with the bands more distinctly green instead of brown. 
It is allied to P. stlonaria, and the variation here described seems to 
be the prevalent type of colouring in the males of this genus. 
164. PHyLETIS INCONSPICUA, Sp. n. 
3. Evidently allied to P. meonaria., Brownish grey ; the primaries 
crossed at basal third by an indistinct brown line, beyond the 
cell by a brown-edged band, and at the outer margin by a border of 
the same width as the band: secondaries with the costal area and 
base pale buff, a brown discal line parallel to outer margin and 
a slender blackish marginal line; all the wings with black dis- 
cocellular dots; fringes plum-coloured at base and testaceous at the 
tips: thorax grey, antennz and abdomen testaceous: wings below 
pale buff suffused with rose-red, crossed beyond the middle by a 
darker, slightly arched line; fringes grey at base, pink at tips; a 
black discocellular dot in all the wings; primaries with greyish dis- 
coidal area: body below pale buff tinted with pink. Expanse of wings 
32 millim. 
Murree, 30th August, 1885. 
The relative number of lines across the wings differs wholly from 
that of P. meonaria, but the colouring seems very similar. 
Ep1 FIDONIA, gen. nov. 
Allied to Fidonia (F. concordaria’); differing in its more slender 
body, less hairy palpi, more slender and less hairy legs, acute sub- 
faleate primaries, the much longer discoidal cells in all the wings, and 
in the less angular discocellulars of the secondaries. 
1 F. concordaria is a yellow-winged species similar to those of New Zealand. 
Mr. Meyrick, whose study of the Geometrina appears to have commenced with 
a Catalogue of the New-Zealand species, has proposed for some of these yellow- 
winged species the generic name Panthea, a name used five times previously in 
Zoology. In his opinion the supposed new genus is nearly allied to Larentia, 
whereas the whole structure of the body is totally dissimilar: the form and neu- 
ration of the wings bear no near relationship to those of Larentia; in the latter 
genus the wings are delicate, thinly scaled, much elongated, the veins lying close 
together, the cells prolonged towards the median vein, the second and third 
median branches and the radial of secondaries equidistant at their origins, 
whereas in the New-Zealand /%donie the radial is halfway between the median 
and subcostal veins. These points should be considered in conjunction with 
the different structure of the antenns, palpi, legs, and, in fact, whole body, 
which, however, Mr. Meyrick considers beneath his notice, basing his classifica- 
tion solely upon neuration, which he indeed believes to have been modified to suit 
the altered shape of the wings; yet, with singular inconsistency, he states that 
“the shape of the wing, often employed by superficial observers, is not of the 
least value, being purely specific.” 
