92 LEPIDOPTEBA INBICA. 



Avliite, instead of a dark fringe. (We have been so informed by Captain Watson, who has 

 seen our specimens.) Our specimens were bred above the ghats in the dry season only ; 

 they are mucli ligliter in colour than the last insect (pureiulra). (Davidson, Bell and 

 Aitken.) 



Habitat. — Mahablesh wur, K ar war. 



Described and figured from specimens in our collection from Mahableshwur taken 

 by us in May, 1887, where it was common. We have it also from Karwar. 



SARANGESA HAMPSONI, nov. 

 Plate 779, figs. 2, S, 2a, ?, 2b, <? , ami Plate 280, figs. 1, ^ , la, 9, lb, ?. 

 Sarangesa albii-ilin, Hampson (nee Moore), Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1888, p. 368. 



Imago. — Male. Upper.side dark vinaceous-olive-brown. Forewing with a large 

 blackish spot at the end of the cell, another below it, a discal, more or less macular 

 band and a marginal band, all indistinct, being but little darker than the ground 

 colour ; three sub-apical dots in a curve from near the costa, two small spots in the 

 cell near its end, with another above them, all in a nearly straight line, two dots 

 outwardly below them, one near the base of the second median interspace, and the 

 other well inwards before the middle of the first median interspace, both within the discal 

 Imnd, a small white spot towards the base inside the cell, and another in the middle 

 of the cell, sometimes absent ; in the type specimen these are present only on the right 

 wing. Hindwing with a blackish spot at the end of the cell, another between it and 

 the abdominal margin, a discal recurved macular band and a marginal liand, all very 

 indistinct ; on the left wing there is a white dot on each side of the uppermost spot of 

 the discal band. Cilia of both wings narrowly white. Underside paler than the 

 upperside, both wings being brown. Furewing with the upper half suff"used with 

 darker brown, markings as on the upper side, the bauds and sjjots, especially those on 

 the hindwing, more prominent. Antennae with the shaft and club with white spots ; 

 palpi, head and liody above concolorous with the wings, on the underside the palj)i are 

 white, the thorax and abdomen smeared with white, the legs greyish-ochreous. 



Female similar to the male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1 y^ inches. 



Habitat. — Nilgiri Hills. 



Described and figured from a pair in the B. ]\I. taken by Hampson, marked 

 AVestern slopes, September, 1888 ; it can easily be separated from S. albicilia, Moore, 

 from Ceylon, by the entirely diff'erent colour of the underside. 



