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Show 1883.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 527 Sithon nedymond, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 77 (1816); Kirby, Catal. D. Lep. p. 414. Hab. Java; Sumatra. SlTHON INDRA, n. sp. Allied to S. jalindra. Differs from typical Javan specimens in the male having comparatively broader brown exterior borders on both wings. In the female the hind wing has four small obsolescent widely separated blue-grey lower submarginal spots above the blackish marginal spots, tbe anal black spot being surmounted with red ; in the Java type of female the hind wing has a broad blue-grey lower marginal band and blue-grey speckled anal spot. Underside whiter; both wings with narrower upper discal brown band ; the subanal spot with much less red border. Expanse If to 1-| inch. Hab. Bengal (A. E. Russell). In coll. F. Moore. HYPOLYC-ENA CACHARA, n. sp. (Plate XLIX. fig. 6.) Near to H. kina, Hewitson. Male. Upperside pale purplish violet-grey: fore wing with the costal and outer border more narrowly pale blue-black than in H. kina; no band on the posterior border; a slight spot at upper end of the cell: hind wing with the costal border slightly pale blue-black. Underside greyish white : fore wing with a blackish discocellular lunular mark, a continuous discal band, and two marginal less distinct lunular bands : hind wing with a blackish discocellular mark, a discal band composed of three upper portions and a lower zigzag line ; two marginal less distinct lunular bands and a yellow-bordered black anal and a subanal spot; a small spot also on costal border. Expanse If to If inch. Hab. N.-Cachar hills (G.-Austen). In coll. F. Moore. HYPOLYC^NA GROTEI, n. sp. (Plate XLIX. fig. 5.) Allied to H. nasaka and H. chandrana. Upperside dark brown ; lower discal area of both wings violet-blue. Underside brownish grey : fore wing with a white-bordered brown baud crossing end of the cell, a broken similar bordered discal band, and a marginal row of lunular spots : hind wing with a white-bordered black subbasal anterior spot and two similar spots in middle of the cell, a white-bordered brown band at end of the cell, a broken zigzag similar discal band, and a marginal upper row of five annular spots ; the three lower marginal spaces ochreous red, the anal and third with a black central spot, and the middle with a silver streak, these three anal spaces being bordered above by a silver line. Expanse 1 inch. Hab. N.E. Bengal (Grote). In coll. F. Moore. HYPOLYCENA NILGIRICA, n. sp. (Plate XLIX. fig. 8.) Allied to H. othona. Female. Upperside reddish-brown : fore wing olivaceous-brown along the costal border : hind wing with 35* |