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Show 1879.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 391 with an inner-angled black apical band. Base of costal border, upper part of thorax, head, and antennae steel-blue; front of head and palpi white. Legs yellowish, slightly steel-blue above. Underside as above; band on fore wing with a geminated white spot below the apex, the apex of both bands steel-blue. Expanse 1T 6^ inch. Hab. Sumatra (Buxton) ; Malacca (Eichhorn). In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. CHELTJRA BASIFLAVA, n. sp. Male. Upperside pale livid white: fore wing with a short basal costal ochreous streak, three basal transverse dark fuliginous bands, the outer portion of the wing being paler fuliginous, leaving only a short, pale livid-white streak between the veins : hind wing with the subcostal and median branches bordered with fuliginous, leaving only a pale livid white elongated streak between the veins. Head, antennae, hind part of thorax, and abdomen fuliginous black ; collar and fore part of thorax and tip of abdomen ochreous. Legs fuliginous black. Expanse 2f inches. Hab. Darjeeling. In coll. F. Moore. Smaller than C. bifasciata, Hope. Differs in the absence of the two ochreous transverse subbasal bands, these being entirely black, instead of ochreous with black borders, and in the veins being very much more broadly bordered with fuliginous. AGALOPE LIVIDA, n. sp. Female. Upperside dull opaque bluish white; veins dark brown : fore wing with a basal orange-yellow patch ; area within the base of the cell in fore wing and apex of both wings fuliginous. Body, antennae, and legs black ; fore legs above greyish. Expanse 2g inches. Hab. China. In coll. Dr. Standinger. Differs from A. basalis, Walker, from the N.W. Himalayas, on the fore wing in the absence of the median transverse fuliginous band, and in the hind wing having the veins dark and the apex fuliginous. BORADIA, n. g. 31ale and Female. Fore wing elongated oval; costal vein extending to two thirds its length; subcostal vein three-branched, first branch arising before end of the cell, second from end of the cell, bifid ; discocellulars bent inward at the middle, upper bent outward near subcostal end ; radial from angle of upper discocellular, and a discoidal veinlet emitted within the cell; median vein four-branched, the branches straight, two upper branches on a foot-stalk from end of the cell; a submedian and an internal vein : hind wing elongated, trigonal ; costal vein extending to apex ; subcostal vein two-branched, first branch very short, and joined to costal before end of the cell, second from end of the cell; discocellulars, radial, and discoidal veins as in fore wing; median vein four-branched, the two upper |