472 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [May 5, 



partly dentated, sinuous, white lines, inwardly margined with brown ; 

 marginal line whitish ; marginal points luniilar, black, marked on the 

 inside with whitish. Hind wings unmarked, marginal line brown. 

 Under side — fore wings smoky grey, with the four costal subapical 

 spots, and with a larger white subcostal spot, near the apex ; hinder 

 margin pale grey: hind wings pale grey, with a brown spot at the 

 end of the cell, and with medial and discal brownish thin bands. 

 Expanse of wings l^'\j inch. 



195. Hypena speculalis, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 8.) 



Bombay, October. 



Pale greyish red, dotted aud striated with brownish ; orbicular 

 represented bv a minute white dot margined with brown ; a black 

 spot on the hinder margin, near the angle ; a whitish postmedial 

 straight line, inwardly margined with grey, commencing on the 

 inner side of the spot ; marginal points black : hind wings smoky 

 grey, irrorated and striated like the fore wings, with black marginal 

 points ; otherwise upmarked. 



Expanse of wings ly^^ inch. 



Closely allied to //. obaceralis, Walker. 



196. Hypena vecordialis, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 10.) 



Bombay. 



Reddish grey, covered with brown atoms, some brown marks on 

 the costa ; a postmedial, perfectly straight, double black line, some 

 black dots on the space between this line and the outer margin ; 

 marginal points black: hind wing unmarked; marginal line brown; 

 fringe of both interlined — grey, pinkish white, and grey. 



Expanse of wings I j^ inch. 



HeRMINIIDjE. 



197. Pasira ^nigmatica, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. II.) 

 Poona, December ; Bombay, September. 



Palpi and head reddish ; antennce, thorax, and fore wings brown ; 

 abdomen testaceous ; thorax with a black band in front. Fore wings 

 with black s'iuuous lines — one subbasal incomplete, one antemedial 

 upright, and a third, very much curved in the disk, and terminating 

 on the hinder margin on the inner side of a deep black spot on the 

 interno-median interspace, with a black dot on the outer side above 

 it ; in some examples there is another black dot on the inner side 

 below it, and in some examples there is also a black spot on the 

 hinder margin near the base. 



Hind wings testaceous, paler towards the base ; marginal line 

 brown ; fringe of both wings reddish. The male has a reddish anal 

 tuft. 



Expanse of wings ly^^ inch. 



198. Pasira russa, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 13.) 



Poona ; Bombay, August, September, and October. 



Antennse, palpi, head, thorax, and fore wings pale yellowish fawn 



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