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Show 404 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, STAUROPUS ALBESCENS, n. Sp. Greyish white; fore wing, and hind wing along anterior border, minutely brown-speckled : fore wing with very indistinct, median, transverse, sinuous bands, and a submarginal series of ochreous-brown spots. Abdomen with a dorsal series of blackish-speckled tufts. Underside white. Palpi and legs brown-streaked. Expanse 2 inches. Hab. Mangalore, S. India (Ward). In coll. F. Moore. STAUROPUS INDICUS, n. sp. Upperside pale ochreous-grey ; cilia alternated with brown : fore wing with the basal half and costal border densely clouded with dark brown scales indistinctly disposed in confluent sinuous bands ; apical half sparsely brown-speckled ; a submarginal oblique row of brown pale-speckled points : hind iving with the anterior border and apex broadly brown-speckled, indistinctly disposed in sinuous bands; abdominal border sparsely speckled ; a brown-speckled marginal line and pale lunular spaces. Body greyish brown, tip ochreous-grey. Underside paler, without speckles. Front of head and palpi dark brown. Antennae brown, shaft grey. Expanse If inch. Hab. N.E. Bengal (A. Grote). In coll. F. Moore. STAUROPUS VIRESCENS, n. sp. Male. Upperside--fore wing pale green, with two equidistant, transverse, median, brown-speckled sinuous lines, the outer double and pale grey-bordered; an indistinct row of submarginal, pale, grey-bordered, brown-speckled spots, and a more prominent row of marginal brown spots; cilia whitish: hind wing with the costal border green, and crossed by brown wavy streaks, the rest of the wing pale brown. Front of head and thorax green ; abdomen pale brown, tipped with pale green. Antennae brown, shaft grey. Underside pale greenish grey. Fore and mid legs green and brown-speckled above, grey beneath; mid legs greenish grey. Palpi ochreous-grey, dark brown at the side. Expanse 1-^V inch. Hab. Darjiling (A. Grote). In coll. F. Moore. STAUROPUS VINACEUS, n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 1.) Upperside--fore wing vinous-brown, irrorated with grey scales; base obliquely grey, and bordered by a narrow black line ; a submarginal indistinct black sinuous line, and an outer marginal series of short, black, grey-bordered zigzag streaks: an indistinct pale vinous longitudinal fascia above the hind margin, a similar one from below end of the cell, and a shorter one before the apex : hind winy brown. Abdomen greyish brown. Thorax brown, speckled with grey hindward. Underside pale rufous-brown, greyish along hind margins. Palpi and legs black-speckled. Expanse 2 inches. Hab. India. In coll. F. Moore. |