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the back of head and tegulse yellow, the latter with blackish patches ; palpi 

 blackish banded with white ; antennse brown, the basal joint white in front ; 

 thorax brown with white patches on patagia ; pectus and legs yellow, the 

 fore and mid tibiae and tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen dark -brown with 

 dorsal series of white spots and segmental lines, the extremity and ventral 

 surface orange-yellow. Forewing brown with numerous waved white lines 

 with series of small spots between them, the apical area and termen with the 

 markings orange-yellow ; a white discoidal annulus with white point in 

 centre ; the termen with a series of orange lunules concave towards 

 base. Hindwing brown with numerous waved white lines with series of 

 small spots between them, the terminal area with the markings orange- 

 yellow. 



Habitat. — Madras, Nilgiris (Andrewes). U.vp. 24 mill. Type in B. M. 



3754. Gymnoscelis sttbtbigosa, insert Eupithecia substristigera, 



Wk,, XXXV., 1879, (1866); which has 

 precedence. 



Larva. — Black ; two yellow-green dorsal lines conjoined at the junctions 

 of the somites by bands of the same colour ; a spiracular series of yellow- 

 green spots and a few similar spots on the ventral surface ; head black, 

 glabrous. Feeds gregariously on a species of low-growing Fig. ( W. H. 

 Campbell.) 



3755«. Gymnoscelis lobata, n. sp. (PI. G., f. 16.) 



Hind tibia with long inner medial spur, the outer spur absent : hind- 

 wing of male with costal lobe folded over on underside, the inner area 

 folded over on underside and grooved. 



^ . Head, thorax and abdomen ochreous mixed with reddish brown, 

 the underside ochreous whitish, the fore tibise and tarsi fuscous ringed 

 with white. Forewing greyish ochreous irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal 

 line represented by slight double dark stri^ from costa ; antemedial line 

 slight, waved, inwardly oblique, a waved dark band beyond it with the 

 black discoidal striga on its outer edges ; a faint double minutely waved 

 medial line ; postmedial line double, minutely waved and obliquely curved, 

 with fuscous suffusion on its inner side ; subterminal line pale, minutely 

 waved, with fuscous suffusion on its inner side, the area beyond it purple ; 

 a fine dark terminal line ; cilia ochreous and fuscous. Hindwing greyish 

 ochreous irrorated with fuscous ; traces of double waved ante and post- 

 medial lines ; a rather punctiform blackish subterminal line, the area 

 beyond it tinged with purple ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia ochreous 

 and fuscous. Underside of forewing suffused with purple except the 

 inner area to beyond middle, a curved w;hitish postmedial band with 

 deeper purple before and beyond it ; hindwing whitish, the costal fold 

 fulvous, an obliquely curved purple postmedial band from costa to vein 4 

 and a terminal band. 



