880 LIEUT.-COL. C. SWINHOE ON THE LEPIDOPTERA [DcC. 1, 



194. Jartheza obstitella, n. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 3, $ .) 



Poona, June. 



Allied to the precedina;. Yellowish fawn-colour ; antennae black, 

 two black stripes on each tegula ; abdomen and hind wings pure 

 white. Fore wings with the costa black, a straight whitish silvery 

 uniform stripe in the centre of the wing, from the base to one third 

 from the outer margin ; a black stripe adjoining and below this, 

 and extending in a fine point to the outer margin, and with a break 

 in it about the end of the white stripe ; there are also some blackish 

 diffuse stripes above the white stripe, and some more on the outer 

 portion of the wing ; a sinuous interrupted, duplex, black baud near 

 the outer margin, a row of black, submarginal spots, and a black 

 marginal line, which goes round the angle and extends a short way 

 in the hinder margin. 



Underside white, with the interior of the fore wings suffused with 

 pale brownish. 



Expanse of wings 1^ inch. 



195. Metasia candidulalis, u. sp. (Plate LVII. fig. 6.) 



Poona, September. 



Allied to M. lactealis, Felder, pi. 13". fig. 38. Pure white ; 

 fore wings with a black spot in the centre ; base of costa also 

 black ; some very fine grey irrorations here and there in the 

 wing, also a few very minute black specks ; an anteniedial line, 

 composed of three pale orange spots, a discal incomplete, very faint 

 orange-coloured line, commencing with two faint orange spots near 

 the hinder margin, a submarginal line of faint orange-coloured spots 

 more or less joined together. Hind wings unmarked. 



Underside unmarked, with the interior of the fore wings suffused 

 with brownish. 



Expanse of wings y^ inch. 



Nycteolid^. 



196. Earias chromotaria. 



Earias cliromotaria. Walker, xxvii. p. 204. 

 Bombay, November. 



197. Earias frondosana. 



Earias frondosana. Walker, xxvii. p. 204. 



A yellow variety, witli the green medial stripe on the fore wings 

 absent. Is common at Poona in October, November, and December. 

 Larvae feed on cotton-pods. 



198. Earias simillima. 



Earias simillima. Walker, xxxv. p. 1775. 

 Poona, October and December, 



One specimen of this pretty little insect taken in October 1882, 

 and one in Decen;ber 1883. 



