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Show 1874.] MR. F. M O O R E ON N E W ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 577 SPHINGES. PERGESA DOLICHOIDES, Felder, MS. Female. Brownish fawn-colour. Fore wing with four oblique transverse, straight, brown lines, with pale, glossy, chalybeate inner borders ; exterior border with a submarginal lunular line, with pale inner border; a brown discal spot between second and third lines, and an indistinct lunular line between third and fourth. Hind wing dark brown. Abdomen with a pale dorsal line. Exp. 3| inches. Hab. Sikkim. In Coll. Capt. Lang and F. Moore. BOMBYCES. Fam. CHALCOSIID^E. Gen. nov. ATOSSA. Fore wing elongated, trigonate; costa somewhat straight; apex produced; exterior margin oblique and slightly convex ; hind margin straight. Hind wing with the costa extending beyond fore wing, arched in middle ; apex produced to a pointed angle in the male; exterior and anal margins convex. Antennae short, minutely serrated in female. Body slender, short. Palpi short, slender, not extending beyond the head, pilose ; proboscis moderate. Legs slender, short, squamous ; hind tibiae with four rather short spurs. Fore wing with four superior veins, the first arising from half the length of the cell, second before the end of the cell and having two short branches ascending from half its length, third starting from end of cell, fourth proceeding from one third the length of the third; a straight discoidal vein from near inward angle of the discocellular vein ; three inferior veins, first and second contiguous at end of cell. Hind wing with two superior, a discoidal, and three inferior veins. ATOSSA NELCINNA. (Plate LXVII. fig. 7.) Male and female. Upperside greenish fuliginous ; veins and a longitudinal streak in cell of fore wing black : fore wing with the interspaces between the veins from base to disk greenish yellowish white ; a transverse discal row of yellowish-white lunules, and a marginal row of small spots : hind wing with yellowish-white spaces between the veins at the base, a discal transverse row of conical spots and a marginal row of quadrate spots, both series partly confluent at anal angle. Underside paler and more greenish-tinged, markings as above, but more confluent. Antennae and head black ; thorax and abdomen black above, yellow beneath ; abdomen with narrow yellow dorsal edges and two lateral rows of black spots. Legs black. Exp. cf 2f, 2 3 inches. Hab. Gurhwal, N.W. Himalaya. In Coll. Capt. A. M . Lang and F. Moore. Note.-Has very much the outward appearance of a species of Pieris. According to Capt. Lang's "Notes," it is a day-flier, and |
