1888.] FROM WESTERN INDIA. 297 



the cell ; cilia dull orange. Hind vpings dull fuscous orange, with the 

 cilia rather brighter : abdomen coloured like the hind wing ; thorax 

 apparently concolorous with the fore wings. Expanse of wings 

 30 mm. The species bears a superficial resemblance to Orgijia simplex. 



18. PORTHESIA XANTHORRHCEA. (No. 1.) 



Liparis xanthorrhoea, Kollar, Kaschmir, p. 470. 



One female and three males from Campbellpore and Khairabad, 

 taken in April, May, and June, and a male from Abbotabad, taken 

 as late as October, 1886. 



The specimens in the Brit. Mus. collection are from the Punjaub, 

 Ceylon, and the Kangra district. 



19. Thyrgorina spilosomata. (No. 214.) 



Thyr(jorina spilosomata, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxi. p. 318. 

 One female, Dumtanar, near Abbotabad, September 29, 1886. 



20. Artaxa pusilla. (No. 14.) 



Artaxa pusilla, Moore, Ceylon, ii. p. 86, pi. 112. fig. 4, S • 

 Euproctis pygmcea, Moore, Desc. Lep. Coll. Atkinson, p. 48. 

 Three specimens, a female and two males, taken at the end of 

 May and beginning of June 1886, at Campbellpore. 



21. Artaxa FRATERNA. (No. 211.) 



Artaxa fraterna, Moore, Ceylon, ii. p. 85. 



Artaxa guttata, var. I, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. iv. p. 795. 



Artaxa guttata, var. ft, male only, Wlk. ibidem. 



One male from Hurripur, Oct. 13, 188G. "At sugar; the only 

 specimen." 



Walker, in his description of A. guttata, iv. p. 795, confounds 

 three species ; in vol. xxxii. p. 329, he sinks his A. guttata as a 

 synonym of A. digramma, Boisd., but fails apparently to see that 

 under his varieties two other species are denoted. His description 

 of the type form of A. guttata assigns two black subapical dots only 

 to the male, none to the female ; his var. y of the male also has no 

 spots. It follows that his typical male alone was digramma, Boisd., 

 his typical female and male var. y being one of the spotless species ; 

 while his var. S c? S and his var. ft S are evidently the species 

 which Mr. Moore has now named A. fraterna. 



22. Chilena similis. 



Chilena similis, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. v. p. 1071. 



Lasiocampa strigida, Wlk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. p. 563. 



A single female, in beautiful condition, but without date or locality. 



Walker describes the male as being sometimes whitish, at others 

 brown ; but it seems that really the females only are white, the males 

 being pinkish brown. {Cf. also Moore, Ceylon, iii. p. 543, pi. 212. 

 fig. 5 6.) 



