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Show 576 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [Nov. 3, ferruginous hairs : fore wing in male with a small yellow discal spot and a black oblique square patch below the cell; female with two yellow obliquely disposed discal spots: cilia of fore wing yellowish, of hind wing ochrey red. Underside dark bluish fawn-colour, spots on fore wing as above. Body clothed with yellowish ferruginous hairs. Exp. 1| inch. Hab. Burmah. In Coll. F. Moore. PYRGUS DRAVIRA. (Plate LXVII. fig. 5.) Allied to P. marrubi. Female. Upperside dark greyish sap-brown, streaked with black between the veins. Cilia alternated with white : fore wing with a median triangular series of three diaphanous white spots, one being disposed at end of the cell and two on the disk ; a geminated series of three smaller spots before the apex : hind wing with a prominent yellowish white spot at end of the cell, and two smaller spots below it. Underside paler : fore wing with markings as above : hind wing with greyish white subbasal and discal spots, a streak from end of cell to outer margin, and band along abdominal margin. Exp. If inch. Hab. Cashmere (Capt. H. 23. Hellard). PAMPHILA DIMILA. Allied to P. comma. Male and female. Upperside testaceous ; exterior border broadly fuliginous brown ; apex of fore wing brownish testaceous. Cilia whitish testaceous : fore wing with a series of small yellow apical spots ; male with an oblique silvery-lined black streak below the cell: hind wing with a yellow spot within the cell, and a curved discal series of four quadrate spots. Underside : fore wing pale testaceous ; apical spots as above : hind wing with basal portion greenish brown ; three prominent white subbasal spots disposed above, below, and at end of the cell; a curved discal series of six quadrate white spots. Exp. cf If, 2 If inch. Hab. Runang Pass, Busahir(S.E. side, about 13,000 ft.) (Capt. H. B. Hellard). HESPERIA KARSANA. (Plate LXVII. fig. 6.) Upperside pale olive-brown. Cilia pale fawn-colour. Male-fore wing with minute oblique subapical pale yellow spots. Female with the subapical spots more distinct, below which is a discal row of four somewhat quadrate spots, the third spot smallest. Underside much paler, marked as above ; space from abdominal margin to middle of wing pale brownish white. Exp. lg inch. Hab. Rawul Pindi, N . Punjab (Capt. H. B. Hellard). |