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Show 138 MR. F. MOORE ON N E W [Feb. 4, Female with fuliginous brown borders and white discal patch dentate mark on fore wing distinct. Expanse 1-| inch. Hab. Deyra Doon, N.W. India (G. Austen). In coll. F. Moore. Distinguished from C. bulis, Doubleday and Hewitson (Gen. D. Lep. pi. 75. f. 5), in the fore wing not being falcate, and in the exterior margin of the hind wing not being angular in the middle. CURETIS DISCALIS, II. Sp. Male. Distinguished above by the bright red of the fore wing being confined to a narrow elongated patch, and that on the hind wing also confined to a small oblong lunular discal patch, which is slightly dentate on the middle of its inner border : fore wing somewhat short and truncate. Expanse 1| inch. Hab. Nepal (General Ramsay) ; Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. ANOPS STIGMATA, n. Sp. Male. Fore wing short, apex not falcate, exterior margin slightly scalloped, the bright red patch broad and sinuous on its apical border: hind wing quite convex and even along exterior margin, with a well-defined black outer border and prominent black longitudinal narrow median basal brand or streak ; the abdominal border dusky. Expanse 1-| inch. Hab. Moulmein, Burmah. In coll. F. Moore. Has most resemblance to the male of C. thetys in the contour of the wings. POLYOMMATUS PSEUDEROS, 11. Sp. Male. Upperside smalt-blue, with somewhat broad greyish-black maculated exterior borders ; cilia with a blackish inner line. Underside pale ochreous-grey : fore wing with a white-circled black dot in middle of the cell, a streak at its end, a discal series of six spots, and a marginal row of less-distinct black spots bordered inwardly by a pale ochreous-red and black lunule : hind wing speckled with green and black at the base ; a transverse subbasal series of four white-circled black spots,a curved discal series of seven similar spots, a paler streak at the end of the cell, a very prominent row of marginal spots bordered by an inner ochreous-red and black lunule, and an intervening short longitudinal discal white dash ; cilia white. Female. Upperside brown, with a submarginal series of small ochreous-red lunular spots. Underside darker-coloured than male; markings the same. Expanse, S lyo- ? ly2o incb. Hab. Sind valley, Kashmir (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Allied to P. eros; differing above in having the outer margins more decidedly maculated with greyish-black, and in the fore wing beneath having no spots at the base ; the discal row of spots also are disposed |