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209. Ai'PHADANA RUBicuNDULA, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 2.) 



Bombay. 



Body brown. Fore wings pale pinkish white, with brown lines 

 and bands, and brown atoms on the clear spaces ; a basal and a snb- 

 basal upright, sinuous line, the space from the base to the middle 

 of these lines being suffused with brown ; a medial diffuse band, with 

 a dentated double line running up it, expanding iu the centre, and 

 meeting again on the costa, half the outer dentated line being in the 

 pinkish-white coloured part of the wing ; marginal third brown, 

 with a black inner sinuous border ; between this border and the 

 medial dentated line is another pale, diffuse, interrupted band ; a dark 

 brown zigzag submarginal line, within the brown margin ; marginal 

 line brown, sinuous ; marginal points black, fringe brown. Hind 

 wings testaceous, with faint brown medial, discal, and submarginal 

 liues ; marginal line brown, sinuous; fringe reddish-brown. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



210. Afphadana festina, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 3.) 



Bombay. 



Antennae, palpi, head, thorax, and fore wings brown, hind wings 

 and abdomen paler. Fore wings with subbasal, medial, and post- 

 medial sinuous lines, the last two nearly meeting on the hinder margin 

 near the centre, the first and last line edged with whitish inwardly, 

 the middle line edged with whitish outwardly : hind wings with a 

 discal line and a submarginal shade, l)rownish ; marginal points of 

 both wings black ; fringe yellowish : underside smoky grey crossed 

 by several darker lines. This insect is very variable, some examples 

 being much paler than others, and some quite reddish with black 

 marks on the costa, the two outer lines composed of dots with two or 

 three black spots. 



Expanse of wings 1 inch. 



211. Apphadana nigrofusca, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 4.) 



Poona, October. 



General colour of body and both wings slaty-brown ; thorax with 

 a brown band in front ; abdomen with brown segmental bands. 

 Fore wings with a black mark on the hinder margin, at the base a 

 broad black median band, nearly straight on the inner side, sinuous 

 and toothed, and expanded upwards on the outer side, edged out- 

 wardly with whitish ; two discal sinuous lines, each edged with 

 whitish on the inner side, marginal points black. Hind wings with 

 a faint medial, and a more distinct discal, blackish line, and a broad 

 blackish marginal band ; marginal points black ; fringe of both wings 

 brown, with pinkish edges. 



Expanse of wings l-^^ inch. 



212. Spadix vegetus, n. sp. (Plate XXVIII. fig. 14.) 



Bombay, September and October. 



Antennae black ; palpi, head, and thorax reddish brown. Fore 

 wings with the basal third pale reddish brown, remainder of the wings 



