1883.] MR. A. G. BUTLER OS INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 167 



either species, the base, central belt, and external area being only 

 slightly paler than on the primaries. Expanse of wings 24 mm. 

 Soluu. 



108. Pyralis lucillalis. 



Pyralis lucillalis, "Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xvii. p. 208, n. 21 

 (1859). 

 Solun. 

 The type of this species was from China. 



109. Aporodes meleagrisalis. 



Herbula meleagrisalis. Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xvii. p. 324, n. 1 1 



(1859). 



"Kurrachee, March 1880; taken there in February, March, and 

 April ; at Lachaua, Sind, in July ; at Kotree, Upper Sind, in March ; 

 Quetta in January and March ; Metazai, South Afghanistan, in May : 

 plentiful.'— C. S. 



110. Samea inscitalis. 



^diodes inscitalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. iv. p. 1297 

 (1865). 



Mhow, September 1881. 



This species is nearly allied to S. ecclesialis of Guenee. 



111. Salbia? perspicualis. 



Zebronia perspicualis,Wa\ker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. iv. p. 1347 

 (1865). 



Botijsl flexissimalis, Walker, I.e. p. 1426 (1865). 



Mhow, October 1881. 



This form agrees better with Salhia than with Zebronia. 



112. Paraponyx affinialis. 



Paraponyx affinialis, Guenee, Delt. et Pyral. p. 2/0, n. 259 

 (1854). 



Mhow, October 1881. 



113. Hydrocampa tenera, sp. n. 



Allied to H. rivulalis, much smaller. Snow-white, with brown 

 markings as follows : — primaries with two brown lines across the base, 

 followed by an oblique abbreviated costal line ; two irregular oblique 

 parallel lines before tlie middle, united towards their inferior extre- 

 mities to two more slender parallel angulated lines, which commence 

 in a pale quadrate patch enclosing a black spot at the end of the 

 cell ; a third pair of lines near the external border, their upper 

 portion running obliquely from the costa to the external border near 

 the external angle, which they then bound to inner margin ; external 

 border bounded internally by a brown line excavated in the middle, 

 and brownish at apex and external angle : secondaries with a tapering 

 brown fascia across the end of the cell and two parallel lines, 

 the outer of which limits the external border, the latter brown, 



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