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Show 328 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [Mar. 1, upper median branch from slight angles above end of the cell, median branch from end of the cell. Type T. batis, Linn. THYATIRA DECORATA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 1.) Male and Female. Fore wing dark brown, with a peach-coloured basal trilobed spot, a large oval spot within the cell, a smaller spot at its end, an oblique irregular-shaped costal spot before and a similar spot at the apex, a large deep-coloured spot at the posterior angle, and two small marginal spots above it, followed by lunules to the apical spot; an elongated spot on middle of the hind margin ; some indistinct pale-bordered black sinuous lines crossing the wing between the spots: hind wing pale brown, with a small marginal pale yellowish patch near anal angle. Body pale ochreous-brown; palpi and legs with dark brown bands. Expanse 3 If, $ If inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. RISOBA, n. g. Allied to Thyatira. Fore wing somewhat shorter ; costal margin arched at apex, angle acute, exterior margin less oblique ; second subcostal branch trifurcate, its lowest fork (or fourth branch) near the apex, fifth branch curved upward from end of the cell and touching the third near its base; upper discocellular obliquely concave, slightly bent at its lower end; upper radial straight from end of the cell, lower radial and upper median branch from angles close above end of the cell. Hind wing very convex exteriorly ; costal and subcostal veins joined together at their base, two subcostal branches from end of the cell, radial and upper median branch from end of the cell, middle median branch from angle before end of the cell. Body slender ; thorax broad, crested in front; antennas long, minutely pectinated in male. Type R. repugnans. RISOBA REPUGNANS. Thyatira repugnans, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. p. 9. Hab. India, Ceylon. RISOBA OBSTRUCTA. Bolina obstructa, Walker, M S . Brit.-Mus. Cabinet. Male and Female. Fore wing greyish brown, indistinctly black-speckled ; a wbite basal oblique slender band, which is slightly brownish hindward and has a black sinuous border ; a discal greyish white fascia bordered externally by an irregular black line ; a black dot within the cell, and a circle enclosing another dot at its end; exterior border traversed by a broad, blackish, whitish-bordered, indistinct band, terminating at the apex in blacker streaks ; a marginal row of black lunules bordered inwardly with white : hind wing pale cinereous-brown, with pale-brown marginal band. Expanse, 3 1, $ If inch. |