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Show 390 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, DYSATJXES INDICA, n. sp. Female. Upperside chocolate-brown : fore wing with two yellow median spots, the upper round, lower conical and on bind margin : hind wing with the basal half yellow. Front of head, tegulae, and tip of abdomen yellow. Spots on underside of fore wing less defined. Legs brown. Exp. 1^- inch. Hab. Bombay (Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. Larger than D. punctata of Europe, and distinguished by having only two yellow spots on fore wing. ARTONA QUADRIMACTJLATA, n. sp. Male and Female. Brown; cilia whitish : fore wing with a small oval subapical yellow spot: hind wing with a short, curved, clavate, median, transverse yellow streak. Palpi and legs greyish brown. Exp. y7^ inch. Hab. Masuri, N.W. Himalayas. In coll. Major Lang and F. Moore. Fam. CHALCOSIID^E. ARACHOTIA1 , Moore, Asiat. Soc. Beng., Desc. Lep. Atk. Coll. p. 14 (1878). ARACHOTIA VESPOIDES, n. sp. Female. Wings transparent, yellowish : fore wing with the costa and hind margin, subcostal and median veins, a discocellular streak, and outer marginal band black: hind wing with the costal margin white; narrow outer marginal band black ; outer marginal band on both wings dentated near posterior angle. Antennae black. Vertex and thorax black ; collar and band across thorax yellow. Front of head grey. Abdomen yellow above, greyish beneath, with black narrow bands and broad tip. Palpi yellow, black-tipped. Legs black, streaked with grey beneath. Exp. If inch. Hab. N. India. In coll. F. Moore. CHALCOSIA ALBATA, n. sp. Similar to C. ideeoides, H.-S. Lep. Spec. Nov. pi. 1. f. 6, from Java. Differs in having the oblique bands and hind wing pure white above and beneath, the discal band on fore wing being broader and of uniform width throughout, and the marginal black band on hind wing narrower. Collar above with two metallic-blue raised spots; palpi and legs white. Expanse 2 to 2-| inches. Hab. Dharmsala, N.W. Himalaya ; Nepal. In coll. F. Moore. CHALCOSIA BICOLOR, n. sp. Female. Upperside pale greenish yellow -.fore wing with a broad, even-margined, dark cupreous-brown submarginal band : hind wing This genus is allied to Trypanophora. |