1888.] FROM WESTERN INDIA. 333 



expected in wasted specimens ; in all essential points they agree well 

 with Walker's description. These were from Kurrachee ; and there 

 is another specimen, equally worn, among some insects from 

 Col. Switihoe, who in the P. Z. S. 1884, p. .526, speaks of taking it 

 at Kurrachee in March, and on the Hubb river in November. 



ErschoflF's figure of 01. infumatalis § seems to represent the same 

 insect, with the hind wing possessing a paler fascia. This was from 

 Turkestan. 



Family Ennychiid^. 

 174. Pyrausta silhetalis. (No. 150 or 32.) 



Pyrausta silhetalis, Gn. Delt. & Pyr. p. 166. 



Botys pangialis, Feld. Reise Nov. pi. 134. fig. 25. 



One male from Thundiani, taken August 28, 1886. 



A very pretty and distinct species, with wholly dark fore wings, 

 and bright orange hind wings with a broad black border. There is 

 no example in the British Museum collection. 



Gueuee's type was from Silhet. Felder's from Pangi, in the 

 Himalayas. In the present example from Thundiani the fringes of 

 the hind wings are dark throughout, only slightly tinged with orange 

 at their apices. 



Family Asopiid^e. 

 1/5. Hymenia recurvalis. (No. 84.) 



Phalcena recurvalis, F. S. E. p. 407. 



Phaltena angustalis, F. Mant. p. 309. 



Phulcena-Pyralis fascialis, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. p. 236, pi. 398. 

 fig. O. 



One female and one male from Campbellpore, and a female from 

 Hassan Abdal, July 1886; all considerably worn. "Common in 

 July." 



1/6. Samea(?) bipunctalis, sp. n. (No. 116.) 



Fore wing dull fuscous, with two obscure darker transverse bands — 

 one straight near the base, the other near the hind margin, very 

 sinuous, deeply concave in the centre ; the two stigmata conspicuously 

 dark fuscous ; before the orbicular is a short, wedge-shaped, straw- 

 coloured spot; a larger, subquadrate one between the stigmata, and 

 a large pale costal blotch of the same colour before the second 

 transverse line, reaching more than half across the wing, and filling up 

 the concavity in the line; on the costa beyond the line stands another 

 smaller pale spot. Hind wings very pale straw-colour ; with a 

 central spot, a sinuous submarginal band, shaped like that of the 

 fore wing, and a broadish marginal band, all dull fuscous, as are the 

 thorax, abdomen, and fringes. 



Two males and one female from Thundiani, August 15, 1886. 

 " Common in August." 



The species is of the same size as S. magna and S. yerburii, but is 

 decidedly different from either. 



