1886,] LEPIDOPTERA FROM WESTERN INDIA. 391 



163. Phyletis herbicolens, var. 



Delocharis herbicolens, Butler, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 173. n. 141. 



$, Murree, 6th September, 1885. 



Diifeis from the type iu its pale greenish-grey, instead of pinky- 

 white tint, with the bands more distinctly green instead of brown. 

 It is allied to P. silonaria, and the variation here described seems to 

 be the prevalent type of colouring in the males of this genus. 



164. Phyletis iNCONSPicuA, sp. n. 



cj . 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, antennae 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. 



Epifidonia, gen. nov. 



Allied to Fidonia (F. concordaria ') ; differing in its more slender 

 body, less hairy palpi, more slender and less hairy legs, acute sub- 

 falcate primaries, the much longer discoidal cells in all the wings, and 

 in the less angular discocellulars of the secondaries. 



' F. concordaria is a yellow-winged species similar to those of New Zealand. 

 Mr. Meyrick, whose study of the Geometrina appears to have commeuced with 

 a Catalogue of the Xew- Zealand species, has proposed for some of these yellow- 

 winged species the generic name Panthca, 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 i-elationship to those of Larentia; in the latter 

 genus the wings are delicate, thinly scaled, much elongated, the veins lying close 

 together, the cells jsrolonged towards the median vein, the second and third 

 median branches and the radial of secondaries equidistant at their origins, 

 whereas in the New-Zealand Fidonim the radial is halfway between the median 

 and subcostal veins. These points should be considered in conjunction with 

 the different structure of the autenuEe, 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 tlie wing, often employed by superficial observers, is not of the 

 least value, being purely specific." 



