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Show 1883.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 25 speckled: hind wing with less distinct pale fasciae, and the margin with a blue lunular line. Underside with less-defined fasciae. Expanse 2g inches. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. British Museum. SYPNA PRUNOSA, n. sp. Male. Allied to S. moorei. Dark purplish brown; fore wing with similar transverse band, except that its outer border is irregular and encompasses the entire reniform mark : hind wing with two pale zigzag fasciae, the lower being nearer the margin; the marginal lunules distinct and bordered with bluish-grey. Expanse 2f- inches. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore. SPYNA FRATERNA, n. Sp. Allied to $. curvilinea; comparatively smaller. Fore wing with the broad medial band of a uniform dark-brown colour throughout, its inner-bordered duplex line indistinctly ochreous, and the outer line bright ochreous ; the discal area broadly, and an apical patch also bright ochreous ; a minute white orbicular dot, and a slender indistinctly defined reniform mark: underside of a brighter and paler ochreous tint, with a narrower and more recurved transverse inner dusky fascia, and comparatively broader outer fascia. Expanse 2 inches. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore and British Museum. SYPNA RENISIGNA, n. sp. Male. Dark purplish brown. Fore wing crossed by a broad subbasal and antemedial blackish band, bordered outwardly by a slender duplex black line extending irregularly outward beyond the cell and terminating on the costa above the end ; a submarginal blackish zigzag narrow band, and a marginal row of slender ochreous-bordered black lunules ; a distinct white minute orbicular dot and large prominent reniform mark : hind wing with a blackish subbasal and a discal suffused band, and a marginal row of slender pale-bordered lunules. Underside pale brownish ochreous: fore wing with three distinct medial transverse narrow black bands; hind wing with a narrow medial and a broad discal band. Expanse If inch. Hab. Khasia hills. In coll. F. Moore. ARGIVA STRIGIPENNIS, n. sp. Allied to A. hieroglyphica; smaller in size. Both sexes pale ochreous-brown, much paler thau the female of A. hieroglyphica. Upperside with more delicate short strigae, which are sparsely disposed between tbe three transverse irregular darker brown fasciae; the fasciae in both sexes (especially in the male) showing more prominently than in female A. hieroglyphica; the oblique short subapical band at upper outer end of the medial fascia, in both sexes, is brownish-ochreous, and the zigzag outer margin of the medial fascia |