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Show 1879.J MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEi'lDOPTERA. 401 PlDA ALBODENTATA, 11. Sp. Female. Upperside dull ochreous-white: fore wing minutely brown-speckled ; a broad, transverse, median, ochreous-brown speckled band crossed by pale veins; a row of white dentate spots along outer margin. Underside paler, without markings. Expanse If inch. Hab. N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. REDOA CYGNA, n. sp. Male and Female. Wings silky white, covered with minute silvery scales : fore wing with a small black spot at end of the cell. Body and legs white. Front of head, tip of palpi, and legs spotted with dark brown. Expanse If inch. Hab. N.E. Bengal (A. Grate). In coll. F. Moore. CALTTJRA, n. g. Wings broad : fore wing trigonal, elongated in female ; costa arched at base, apex rounded, exterior margin oblique ; first branch of subcostal vein starting from some distance before the end of the cell, second quadrifid, fifth or lowest being nearest the cell; discocellulars bent in the middle, upper angled ; radial from angle of upper discocellular; median vein four-branched, two upper from angles at end of the cell: hind wing broad, apex and exterior margin very convex ; subcostal two-brancbed from angle at end of the cell; upper discocellular short, lower long and very oblique; median vein as in fore wing. Body moderate ; abdomen as long as hind wing. Palpi pilose, porrect. Legs covered with short spinous hairs. Antennae bipectinate. CALTURA ALBA, n. sp. 3Iale and Female* White, semidiaphanous, covered with raised white scales : fore wing with two transverse black lines, the first subbasal and zigzag, the other discal, oblique, and bent near the costa; a short, oblique, discocellular black streak ; both wings with a marginal row of small black spots. Thorax black-spotted ; abdomen in male with dorsal and lateral row of black spots. Legs hoary above. Expanse cS If, $ 2f inches. Hab. Ceylon (Sir W. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum. DASVCHIRA RAUSALIA, n. sp. Male. Upperside pale brownish grey : fore wing minutely irro-rated with black scales, crossed by indistinct basal, discal, and marginal sinuous dusky lines; a lunule at end of the cell: hind wing pale greyish brown, yellowish on abdominal margin ; cilia whitish ; an indistinct dusky spot at end of the cell. Underside paler; both wings with a dusky brown, broad, dentate streak at end of the cell, and a transverse, discal, indistinct fascia. Expanse If inch. Hab. Kussowlee, N . W . Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. PROC. ZOOL. SOC-1879, No. XXVI. 26 |