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LlPARID^. 



74. Olene mendosa. 



Olene mendosa, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. iii, 19, 147, 

 f. 293, 294. 



Poona, ^November. 



75. Olene olearia, n. sp. (Plate XX. figs. \^ <S , 15 $ .) 

 Poona, Ji ly and December. 



(S . Glossy olive-brown, whitish beneath ; antennae brown, deeply 

 pectinated ; abdomen with a whitish raised spot above the anal tuft ; 

 thorax orange in front. Fore wings with an embossed orange spot 

 near the base ; all the veins brown ; with some pale longitudinal 

 streaks in the interspaces, especially so near the apex, giving the 

 whole wing the appearance of a mass of longitudinal streaks from 

 base to outer border, with the disk of the wing the darkest part of it. 

 Hind wings with some few faint streaks, but altogether paler than 

 the fore wings. 



5 . Pale testaceous, with a slight reddish-yellow tinge ; fore wings 

 longitudinally streaked with brown throughout the centre of it ; 

 hind wings whitish, slightly streaked with brown in the centre. 

 Underside paler, with a subnpical longitudinal brown streak in the 

 fore wings and the pale brown streaks in the hind wings showing 

 through. 



Expanse of wings, S I ^ inch, 5 1 j% inch. 



JQ. Olene fusiformis. (Plate XX. fig. 8c?.) 



$. Nioda fusiformis, Walker, v. p. 1070. 



Poona, September ; Bombay, November. 



c? . AntenniB deeply pectinated. Antennae, thorax, and fore 

 wings brown ; abdomen testaceous ; head yellowish. Fore wings with 

 the outer margin paler, an embossed yellowish spot at the base ; 

 basal, median, and outer thin latitudinal lines black and indistinct, 

 first nearly straight, second curved inwardly, third sinuous and 

 toothed ; hind wings whitish. Underside whitish, darkest towards 

 the centre of the fore wings. 



Expanse of wings ly*^ inch. 



At Poona Mr. Taplin took the larvae on Zidphus jujuba ; Major 

 Pitcher, Assistant Superintendent of Agriculture N. W. P., sent me 

 some he found feeding on imported New Orleans cotton-plants ; the 

 Poona larvae were 25 days feeding and became from 1 to 1| inch in 

 length before turning ; pupal stage 9 to 1 5 days. 



77. PORTHESIA MARGINALIS. 



Euproctis marginalis, Walker, vii. p. 1731. 

 Poona, September to April, very common. 



78. Euproctis decussata. 



Euproctis decussata, Moore, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1877. 

 p. 437. 



Poona, February ; Bombay, September and December. 



