1888.] FROM WESTERN INDlA. 295 



Chittar, caught in July and September 1886, and marked "very 

 common." 



The crimson abdominal band occupies two segments in the female, 

 and three in the male, leaving the last segment only in the latter, 

 but the last two in the former, dark. 



Family Chalcosiidje. 



11. Agalope basalts. (No. 89.) 



Agalope basalis, Wlk. Cat. Lap. Het. B. M. ii. p. 438. 



Three examples from Thundiani, two females taken in August, 

 the male in October 1886. " Common at Thundiani and Murree, 

 August and September." 



12. SORITIA pulchella. (No. 186.) 

 Chalcosia pulcliella, Kollar, Kaschmir, iv. p. 461. 

 Etemsia pulchella, 2 , Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. ii. p. 431. 

 Eterusia trilituruta, cS , Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxi. p. 119. 

 One female from Thundiani, September 15, 1886. 



The specimens in the Brit. Mus. collection are from Nepaul and 

 Mussourie. Major Yerbury notes that only two specimens were 

 taken ; but that it was reported to be common at Nandar in Septem- 

 ber, though he himself did not see any. 



Family Lithosiid^. 



13. Lacides Fictrs. (No. 101.) 

 Noctua Jicus, F. E. S. iii. p. 27. 



One male, in good condition, Campbellpore, July 30, 1886. 



14. Digama hearseyana. (No. 61.) 



Vigama hearseyana, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. ii. p. 298, pi. 7. 



Three females and two males from Campbellpore and Khairabad, 

 all taken between the end of May and middle of June. 



15. Pentacitrotus vxjlneratus. (No. 206.) 

 Pentacitrotus vulneratus, Butler, 111. Lep. Het. v. p. 35, pi. 86. 



fig. 5. 



One female from Thundiani, taken October 10, 1886. Two 

 specimens only were seen. 



This new genus, containing the single species here named, is placed 

 in the Brit. Mus. collection by Mr. Butler between Padenia, Moore, 

 and Tif/rioides, Wlk. The species itself is there represented by a 

 single example, a male, from Darjiling, of which the ground-colour 

 is coppery-orange. The markings consist of two quadrate black 

 blotches standing on the inner margin, embracing between them a 

 perfect arch of tlie ground-colour : from the top inner angle of the 

 first and from the top outer angle of the second proceed two narrower 

 black arms ; the first joins a costal blotch towards the base ; the 

 second is abbreviated and rounded off before reaching the apex. In 

 the middle of the costa is another quadrate black marking, united 



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