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Show 1879.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 405 SPHETTA APICALIS, n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 7.) Male. Upperside--fore wing dark umber-brown, with a pale testaceous black-streaked patch from the apex of costa, which terminates in an oblique paler reniform mark at the end of cell; a small pale testaceous spot in middle of the cell; the space immediately below the apical patch black-speckled; a subbasal and discal pale narrow sinuous band, and a marginal series of black points: hind wing and abdomen fuliginous-brown. Underside pale silky-testaceous, with brownish outer borders and pale marginal points : hind wing with an indistinct brown lunule at end of the cell, and a curved discal narrow band. Thorax above and vertex black-speckled ; palpi black at side ; fore and middle legs blackish above; antennae brown. Expanse If inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore. SPHETTA BIOCELLATA, n. sp. Female. Upperside ferruginous-brown : fore wing with the costal border its entire length longitudinally marked with short blackish dentate streaks ; a pale testaceous apical patch, the lower border of which is black, its shape being sinuous from the apical angle and then straight to end of the cell; an oval pale spot with a blackish centre at end of the cell, and a darker similar spot, with black intermediate space, within the cell; a blackish subbasal transverse sinuous double line, a similar line curving upward from its base to below the end cell-spot; veins on the disk with short black streaks; a pale submarginal indistinct narrow fascia, and a row of black dentate marginal points : hind wing and abdomen pale ferruginous-brown. Underside paler, with darker interspaces between the veins on the fore wing, and streaks along the veins on hind wing; both wings with a blackish spot at end of the cell, and black dentate marginal line. Expanse 2g inches. Hab. Bombay. In coll. F. Moore. GLUPHISIA SINUATA. Female. Fore wing with a brownish ochreous band along exterior margin, bordered within by a sinuous irregular black line ; from the band to the base the wing is speckled with black, showing a slightly prominent spot at end of the cell and streaks on middle of hind margin: hind wing cinereous-brown, with a slight dusky streak at end of the cell and indistinct median transverse band. Body cinereous- brown. Underside pale cinereous-brown, with indistinct streak at end of cells and baud on hind wing. Expanse If inch. Hab. N.E. Bengal. In coll. W . B. Farr. RACHIA PLUMOSA. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 1.) Rachia plumosa, Moore, Asiat. Soc. Beng. Desc. Lep. Atk. Coll. p. 70(1878). Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. |