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form reddish colour, P. plntijmitris being dark brown with pale cen- 

 tral bands. In P. dulcicidalis the band on the fore wing is broader 

 and of nearly the same reddish tint as the base and outer border. 



ZoNORA, nov. gen. 



Male AwA female. Fore wings long, narrow, exterior margin convex, 

 slightly oblique, posterior margin oblique towards the base ; palpi of 

 the male long, depressed, twice the breadth of the head, thick at the 

 base and curving to a very fine point at the tip, of the female very 

 short, also depressed, pointed at the tip and not so long as the 

 breadth of the head ; antennse of the male bipectiuated, of the female 

 simple but rather thick, basal joint of male straight and of uniform 

 width ; cell of fore wing in male extending two thirds the length, 

 first subbasal branch starting at about one fourth before end of cell, 

 second close to the end, third trifid, sixth contiguous to base of 

 third, discocellular not visible ; lower median at nearly one fourth 

 before end of cell, submedian slightly recurved ; hind wing rather 

 broad, exterior margin and anal angle rounded ; cell more than half 

 the length ; costal and subcostal running close together to end of 

 cell, subcostal two-branched ; discocellular bent acutely inward, 

 radial from near lower end ; lower median from nearly one third 

 before end of cell ; submedian and two internal veins wide apart. 



Allied to the genus Hypotia. 



ZoNORA opiPARALis, u. sp. (Plate XLfV. fig. 11.) 



Male &nd female. Top of head and front of thorax white; thorax 

 and fore wings reddish brown, with a pale greenish bronzy tinge, a 

 white stripe on each side of the thorax ; palpi and antennae grey ; 

 fore wings with a subcostal white stripe, a white streak at the apex ; 

 five large white spots, one at the middle of the base bending 

 down on to the hinder margin, the second diamond-shaped, iu the 

 centre of the wing before the middle, the third long, ovate and 

 medial just below the subcostal stripe, the fourth curved upwards 

 exactly below the third and close to the hinder margin, and the 

 fifth long, ovate, and just above and in front of the fourth, with its 

 outer end touching a white submargirial line of spear-shaped marks ; 

 fringe brown, with white marks. Hiud wings greyish white, with a 

 submarginal central dentate brownish line, and with the marginal 

 border brownish, the brown colour at the apex and central portion 

 running into the white fringe of the wing. 



Underside greyish white, with the markings on the upper portions 

 of the fore wings showing through the wing. 



Abdomen grey, with one or two white segmental bands at the 

 base ; body and legs below grey, without markings. 



Expanse of wings, c? 1? $ lyij inch. 



Sab. Lower Sind. Hvdrabad, 1 S , April 188C ; Juda, 1 $ , Feb- 

 ruary 1886 ; and Kipva, "l $ , February 1886. 



Allied to Z. concatenalis, from Syria, which has somewhat simi- 

 larly disposed, but differently shaped, markings on the fore wings. 



