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Show 20 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [Jan. 16, ARTHISMA, n. g. Male. Fore wing elongated, somewhat narrow, apex acute ; exterior margin oblique and angular in the middle, posterior margin angular near the base ; costal vein extending two thirds the margin ; first subcostal emitted at half length of the cell, second at one eighth, trifurcate, the third being thrown off at one sixth from base of second, and the fourth close to apex at one eighth from base of third, fifth from end of the cell and slightly touching third near its base; cell long, rather broad ; discocellular slightly bent near both ends, radials from the angles ; upper median from above end of the cell, middle median from the end, and lower at one half before the end ; submedian slightly concave near the base. Hind wing short; anterior margin much arched at the base ; exterior margin very oblique, scalloped, and deeply cleft between the lower median and submedian veins, the cilia fringing the margin on both sides to the end of the incision ; abdominal margin long ; subcostal vein looped to costal at its base ; cell very short, less than one third he wing; two subcostal branches from end of the cell; discocellular concave, slightly bent near its lower end ; radial from the angle; two upper medians at one fourth beyond end of the cell, lower median at one half before the end; submedian much undulated ; internal slightly recurved, and apparently with a short second inner veinlet lobed to it near the base. Body moderately slender, abdomen long; palpi long, slender, ascending, second joint projecting above the vertex, third slender and nearly of equal length to second ; legs slender; antennae very finely pectinated. ARTHISMA SCISSURALIS. Male. Dull ochreous-red: fore wing with an outwardly oblique subbasal very indistinct yellowish lunular band, a recurved discal similar band composed of broader lunules, and an outer sub-marginal zigzag less distinct and narrower band, a yellowish slender discocellularlunule, and a minute white orbicular spot; hind wing with an indistinctly paler medial fascia. Cilia edged with ochreous-white. Body and palpi ochreous-red; legs darker red above, fore legs with white tibial streak and tarsal bands. Expanse lT4jinch. Hab. Singapore. In coll. F. Moore. RUSICADA ALBITIBIA. Gonitis albitibia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M . xiii. p. 1001 ?• Rusicada nigritarsis, Walker, /. c. p. 1006, 8 • Male. Fore wing dark purplish reddish-ochreous, palest and blotchy on posterior border; crossed by a darker oblique zigzag antemedial and a medial line, the latter bent below tbe reniform mark, and thence sinuous upward to the costa; a less distinct submarginal dark zigzag slender fascia ; an indistinct minute white orbicular spot and a grey lobed reniform mark ; cilia purplish-brown : |