1889.] INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. 415 



PSEUDO-DELTOIDES. 



FOCILLID^E. 

 TlIYRlDOSPILA VIRGATA, n. Sp. 



Male AnA. female of a uniform violet-brown above ; fore wings of a 

 deep black, an angular black patch on the costa near the apex, a 

 blackish sinuous transverse line at one fourth from the base ; a 

 broad black band in the centre, which is inwardly distinctly defined 

 and outwardly diffuse, terminating in a faint outwardly curved sin- 

 uous line ; marginal line brown ; cilia brown, whitish at the base. 



Hind wing with an antememedial blackish stripe, corresponding 

 to the inner edge of the medial hand of fore wing, a discal blackish 

 stripe of the same nature with a short blackish shade immediately 

 below it near the abdominal border ; marginal lioe and cilia as in 

 fore wings. 



Underside of a uniform pale brown, a faint spot at the end of each 

 cell, and three faint outwardly curved lines across both wings, ante- 

 medial, medial, and postmedial, and close together. 



Expanse of wings Ij^ inch. 



Ilah. Solun (Simla), June. One pair in good condition from the 

 late Capt. Reed's collection. 



Smaller than T. sphariphora : wings not angular on the outer mar- 

 gin ; pattern of markings similar, the precostal patch ou the fore 

 wing prominent ; the orbicular mark absent. 



Platydid^. 



Episparis sora, Moore, MS. 



Body and wings above of a uniform rosy brown, irrorated with 

 minute white atoms, very thickly so in some parts, giving the wing 

 the appearance of being smeared with whitish, more especially 

 towards the base and angles of both wings ; fore wings with the 

 costa broadly and irregularly ochreous, marked on the costal edge 

 with white and brown ; orbicular represented by a dot, reniform by 

 a pure white streak, inside of which is a yellow angular mark ; lines 

 brown, faintly edged outwardly with white, first at one third from 

 the base, dentated outwardly 'with two teeth, two zigzag sinuous 

 lines rather close together beyond the middle, and a straight discal 

 line from the hinder angle to the costa near the apex. 



Hind wing with only the double line, the outer one of which has 

 two or three acute dentations opposite the produced angle of the 

 margin ; cilia on both wings dark brown, prominent. 



ifnderside paler, white irrorations denser, making the outside of 

 fore wings andnearlv all the hind wings whitish ; fore wings with the 

 black orbicular and' white reniform very distinct, the discal line also 

 distinct but slightly sinuous, and inside this is another sinuous 



almost straight line. , . , , j i,. 



Hind wing with a discocellular lunular mark and with the double 

 discal curved sinuous line, the outer one of the two being regularly 



