1885.] LEPIDOPTEllA FROM WESTERN INDIA. 31)3 



L arentiid.e/ 



168. Melanthia restitota. 



Melanippe restitutata (sic), Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxv. p. 12!)/ 

 (1862). 



CainphcUpore, July; Murree, 2ricl August, 188i^. 



The Melanthia gratulata of Walker, from Vancouver, is Packard's 

 Rhemnaptera brunneicillata. 



1C9. SCOTOSIA DUBIOSATA, 



hicotosia dubiosata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. .xxv. p. 1352. n. 21 

 (1862). 



Murree, 8th September; Bugiioter, 19th September, 1885. 

 "Not uncommon." — J. W. Y. 



170. ScOTOSIA VENIMACULATA. 



Scotosia venitnaculata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 657. 



Thundiani, 24th September, 1885. 



The single specimen sent is of a greyish-brown tint, with a pale 

 golden or bronze gloss ; it shows no trace of the rosy suffusion com- 

 monly seen on the wings of Darjiling specimens ; all the markings 

 are, however, identical, and it is possible that the absence of the 

 reddish colouring may be due to fading or to individual variation. 



171. CiDARIA perpulchra, sp. n. 



Allied to C. aurata and C. aliena ; nearest to the former, but dif- 

 fering in the dark-grey instead of copper-brown basal area of the 

 primaries, the much more irregular band following it, owing to the 

 different form of the dark postmedian belt ; the latter (which is 

 blackish grey instead of brown) commences transversely instead of 

 obliquely, is deeply bisinuated, and forms an angle at the median vein, 

 it is wider than in C. aurata as far as the second median branch, and 

 its anterior edge, instead of being narrowly incised on the lower 

 radial interspace, is cleft so as to form a wide >-shaped incision ; 

 the external border is much less rufous and the pale markings upon 

 it are paler and of twice the width ; the secondaries are almost white 

 instead of pale grey-brown ; the series of silver spots on the under 

 surface of the secondaries is wanting. Expanse of wings 29 millim. 



Murree, 8th August, 1885, 



This species in coloration more nearly resembles C. corylata than 

 either of the two others of the same group. 



172. CiDARIA JAMEZA? 



Cidaria jameza, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. 

 p. 452 (1878) ; 111. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. p. 58, pi. Iv. tig. 9 (1879). 



Murree, 20th August, 1885. 



The single worn specimen in the collection is rather larger than 

 Japanese examples, but I can discover no other difference. 



^ The collection contains a Eupithccia, but it is too much worn lor identi- 

 fication. 



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