1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 407 



A handsome local species, much smaller than the Himalayan L. 

 grundis in both sexes, somewhat similar in the female, but very dif- 

 ferent in the male, the fore wing and thorax of the latter sex being 

 dark grey, with prominent brown markings. 



NOTODONTID^. 

 BiRETA NANA, n. Sp. 



Allied to B. longivitta. Walker, and B. xanthophila. 



Male and female. Fore wings pale, dull ochreous, costal and 

 hinder margins darker, a longitudinal ochreous-brown central stripe 

 from the base to less than one third from the outer margin, curving 

 slightly upwards at the end towards the apex, and a discal and a 

 submarginal curved row of brown dots. 



Hind wings smoky brown, with dull ochreous border and fringe ; 

 antennse with the shaft brown ; plumes pale ochreous grey ; palpi 

 brown at the tips ; head ochreous brown ; thorax paler, with a 

 brownish middle stripe ; abdomen above greyish brown. 



Below : wings pale yellowish, with thin centres, suffused with smoky 

 brown, and this suffusion covers most of the body below ; the legs 

 are also marked with the same colour, the tibiae of some specimens 

 being entirely brown. 



Expanse of wings 1| inch. 



Hab. North Kanara, June 1887. Two specimens received from 

 Mr. Wise, Nilgiri Hills, four specimens received from Mr. Hampson. 



One third less in size than B. longivitta, and distinguishable from 

 it by the absence of the obliquely transverse denticulated lines on 

 the fore wins;. 



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Phineca canities, n. sp. 



31ale and female. Greyish white irrorated with grey, shaft of the 

 antennse white ; fore wings with a broad antemedial, outwardly 

 curved band, composed of two brown lines, with the space inside 

 dark grey, the band being transected by two brown lines, one near 

 the costa and the other just below the middle ; also a discal row of 

 black marks on the veins ; marginal line grey- Hind wings rather 

 paler than fore wings, unmarked, marginal line grey ; cilia of both 

 wings greyish white, with grey patches at the end of the veins ; 

 veins on both wings rather prominent. Head and thorax paler 

 grey than the abdomen. 



Underside paler than upperside ; hind wings whitish, veins and 

 cilia as above, a small whitish costal space one fourth from the apex 

 of fore wings ; hind wings with a central, outwardly curved, pale 

 grey band ; body and legs pale grey. 



Expanse of wings 1—1^ inch. 



Hab. North Kanara, June 1887. 4 c5', 1 $, received from 

 Mr. Wise. 



This insect is most nearly allied to P. basistriga, Walk., Catal. 

 Lep. Het. B.M. vii. p. 1747 ; the type specimen of which is hi the 

 British Museum Collection, but without locality. 



