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Show 342 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [Mar. 1, AXYLIA ALBIVENA, n. sp. Fore wing pale straw-yellow; median vein and middle branch white; a slight black-speckled fascia extending below the cell to the outer margin; orbicular and reniform spots ill-defined by black speckles and with a more distinct biack intervening spot; a few black speckles scattered irregularly over the wing, and a marginal row of black dots: hind wing white, with a marginal row of black dots. Expanse ly0-inch. Hab. Solun, Punjab. In coll. F. Moore. Fam. APAMIID^E. Genus H Y D R J E C I A. H Y D R ^ E C I A K H A S I A N A , n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 5.) Male. Fore wing dull reddish brown, washed with purple-grey, with a brighter brown pale-bordered subbasal sinuous line, a large orbicular and reniform spot, and discal sinuous line; outer border also brighter and traversed by a pale waved line ; median and sub-median veins dusky brown : hind wing cinereous-white, with pale brown veins and indistinct marginal fascia. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs reddish brown, grey-speckled; abdomen paler. Underside much paler. Expanse l-j^inch. Hab. Khasia Hills, E. Bengal. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Near to H. petasitis. Fam. XYLOPHASIID.E. Genus RHIZOGRAMMA, Lederer. RHIZOGRAMMA INEXTRICATA, n. sp. Male and Yemale. Fore wing brownish grey, veins speckled with black and white ; a transverse discal, sharply sinuous, white-bordered black line; some pale-bordered black streaks from the base below the cell, oblique short streaks on middle of the costa ; a brown interrupted marginal fascia from the apex, the hind margin broadly grey-brown; orbicular mark represeuted by a long brown double streak, which crosses and breaks up an indistinctly formed reniform mark ; a marginal row of black points : hind wing white at the base, with a pale brownish marginal band. Thorax brownish grey, with black-speckled collar and tegulae; palpi brown, tip ochreous ; legs grey, brown-speckled ; abdomen grey-brown. Expanse 2\ inches. Hab. Dalhousie, N.W. Himalaya; Solun, Punjab. In coll. F. Moore. Allied to R. indica {Xylophasia indica), Moore, and to the European R. petrorhiza, Bork. SASUNAGA, n. g. Fore wing very narrow; costa almost straight; exterior margin oblique, convex, waved ; posterior margin convex at the base ; costal |