﻿moths 
  from 
  Southern 
  India. 
  147 
  

  

  broad 
  pinkish 
  lake 
  longitudinal 
  bands 
  with 
  even 
  edges, 
  filling 
  up 
  

   the 
  entire 
  costal 
  and 
  hinder 
  marginal 
  spaces 
  ; 
  cilia 
  with 
  some 
  

   marks 
  of 
  the 
  same 
  colour. 
  Hind 
  wings 
  greyish 
  white, 
  glistening, 
  

   unmarked. 
  Under 
  side 
  : 
  body 
  and 
  legs 
  greyish 
  ochreous 
  ; 
  abdo- 
  

   men 
  with 
  whitish 
  segmental 
  bands 
  ; 
  wings 
  greyish 
  white, 
  with 
  

   some 
  whiter 
  longitudinal 
  streaks. 
  Expanse 
  of 
  wings, 
  1-^ 
  in. 
  

  

  Khandalla, 
  September, 
  1888. 
  

  

  Allied 
  to 
  C. 
  lanceolata, 
  Walker, 
  xxxiii., 
  767 
  ; 
  differs 
  in 
  

   the 
  formation 
  of 
  the 
  stripes, 
  and 
  in 
  its 
  much 
  larger 
  

   size, 
  that 
  species 
  having 
  the 
  fore 
  wings 
  rose-coloured, 
  

   with 
  a 
  central 
  silvery 
  stripe. 
  I 
  have 
  a 
  series 
  of 
  both 
  

   sexes. 
  Of 
  this 
  new 
  species 
  I 
  have 
  only 
  one 
  perfect 
  

   female 
  specimen, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  such 
  a 
  beautiful 
  insect, 
  I 
  am 
  

   tempted 
  to 
  name 
  and 
  describe 
  it. 
  

  

  26. 
  Masalia 
  dora, 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  ^. 
  Antennae, 
  palpi, 
  and 
  head 
  pale 
  fawn-colour; 
  thorax 
  and 
  

   fore 
  wings 
  dark 
  ochreous 
  fawn-colour. 
  Fore 
  wings 
  irrorated 
  with 
  

   black 
  atoms, 
  which 
  in 
  places 
  are 
  clustered 
  together 
  into 
  indistinct 
  

   longitudinal 
  streaks 
  ; 
  a 
  brownish 
  patch 
  near 
  the 
  apex, 
  and 
  a 
  row 
  

   of 
  diffuse 
  indistinct 
  submarginal 
  transverse 
  spots. 
  Hind 
  wings 
  

   and 
  abdomen 
  silvery 
  white, 
  tinged 
  with 
  fawn-colour, 
  unmarked 
  ; 
  

   anal 
  tuft 
  reddish 
  fawn-colour. 
  Under 
  side 
  pale 
  luteous 
  fawn- 
  

   colour 
  ; 
  fore 
  wing 
  inwardly 
  suffused 
  with 
  brown. 
  

  

  ? 
  . 
  Pale 
  yellowish, 
  shining 
  ; 
  fore 
  wing 
  irrorated 
  with 
  reddish 
  

   atoms, 
  with 
  longitudinal 
  reddish 
  streaks 
  ; 
  hind 
  wings, 
  abdomen, 
  

   and 
  the 
  entire 
  under 
  surface 
  paler, 
  and 
  of 
  a 
  uniform 
  pale 
  shining 
  

   greyish 
  yellow. 
  Expanse 
  of 
  wings, 
  (^ 
  1, 
  ? 
  1^ 
  in. 
  

  

  Khandalla, 
  October, 
  1886. 
  

  

  Allied 
  to 
  M. 
  irrorata, 
  Moore, 
  but 
  from 
  which 
  it 
  widely 
  

   differs 
  in 
  its 
  coloration, 
  in 
  its 
  brown 
  cilia, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   disposition 
  and 
  nature 
  of 
  the 
  discal 
  spots. 
  

  

  ACONTIID^. 
  

   27. 
  Marimatha 
  freda, 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  $ 
  . 
  Luteous 
  fawn-colour 
  ; 
  antennae, 
  palpi, 
  head, 
  fore 
  part 
  of 
  

   thorax, 
  and 
  anal 
  tuft 
  ochreous. 
  Fore 
  wing 
  with 
  the 
  costa 
  brown, 
  

   this 
  colour 
  broader 
  and 
  darker 
  on 
  the 
  basal 
  half; 
  a 
  duplex 
  sinuous 
  

   black 
  discal 
  line, 
  chalybeous 
  whitish 
  in 
  its 
  interior, 
  bending 
  

   inwards 
  above 
  on 
  to 
  the 
  costa, 
  and 
  throwing 
  out 
  a 
  straight 
  brown 
  

   shade 
  to 
  the 
  apex, 
  with 
  a 
  brownish 
  suffusion 
  on 
  the 
  marginal 
  space 
  

   below 
  it 
  ; 
  marginal 
  line 
  blackish 
  brown 
  ; 
  cilia 
  bro^vnish, 
  with 
  a 
  

  

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