166 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. [Apr. 3, 



104. Aphandala misera, sp. n. 



Cinereous ; primaries above with a narrow black reniform marking ; 

 two or three irregular brown basal transverse lines ; a central un- 

 dulated oblique line, interrupted by the reniform marking ; an 

 irregularly undulated whitish discal line broadly bordered with 

 golden brown ; a marginal series of black dots ; fringe greyish brown, 

 with a whitish basal line : secondaries paler than the primaries, ex- 

 cepting on the external area, which is partly bounded internally by 

 an abbreviated diffused brownish stripe from the abdominal margin ; 

 fringe as in primaries : abdomen rather paler than the thorax. 

 Primaries below grey, sericeous, with whitish mner border ; secon- 

 daries whitish, grey-speckled, and traversed beyond the middle by two 

 ill-defined irregular grey stripes ; body below whity brown. Expanse 

 of wings 21 mm. 



From four examples, all more or less rubbed, taken at Assirghur 

 in October 1881 ; it occurs also at Mhow in the same month. 



A second species, apparently referable to Aphandala, and taken at 

 Mhow in September, is represented by a single broken example, the 

 body of which has been somewhat crushed so as to render its 

 identification uncertain. A third form, possibly referable to Walker's 

 genus Cataba or the old genus Rivula, has lost its palpi and therefore 

 cannot be described ; it was obtained at Kurrachee in January 1880. 

 A fourth form, belonging to the same group of genera, is rubbed 

 beyond all possibility of recognition ; it was taken at Mhow in 

 Sejptember 1881. 



I note the above to show, in the first place, that the Lepidoptera 

 of Mhow and Kurrachee are as yet far from being exhausted, and, in 

 the second place, to induce collectors of the smaller forms to pay 

 erpecial attention to the perfect condition of the specimens which 

 they send home: the absence or distortion of the palpi frequently 

 renders the proper allocation of Lepidoptera a hopeless task. 



105. Bleptina morosa. 



Bleptina morosa, Butler, III. Tvp. Lep. Het. iii. p. 64, pi. Ivi. 

 fig. 15 (1879). 



Solun. 



Pyrales, 



106. Pyralis elachia. 



Pyralis elachia, Butler, 111. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. p. "0, pi. Iviii. 

 fig. 3(1879). 

 Solun. 



107. Pyralis platymitris, sp. n. 



Primaries above very like those of P. elachia, but the dark areas of 

 a more chocolate colour, and the central belt of a sordid sandy whitish 

 tint ; the inner edge of this belt is angulated somewhat as in P./arinalis; 

 the outer edge, however, is nearly straight, and the external brown 

 area consequently broader : secondaries altogether darker than in 



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