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Show 1879] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 407 Family DREPANULID^E. D R E P A N A SPECULARIS, n. sp. Female. Upperside pale testaceous-brown: fore wing with the veins externally and a transverse submarginal oblique narrow band pale testaceous-yellow; a dark-bordered paler blotch at base, below and beyond the cell; the rest of the wing numerously covered with short pale strigae ; a narrow dusky lunule at end of the cell; a marginal row of small black-speckled spots: hind wing pale testaceous-yellow anteriorly, dark brown posteriorly, and lined with pale veins and traversed by short pale strigae ; a narrow pale band crossing the disk, ontside wbich aretwo median, oval, contiguous semidiaphanous pale spots ; a marginal row of black-speckled spots. Underside black-speckled ; transverse band on both wings black and broader ; marginal speckled spots confluent on hind wing; shaft of antennae white; pectinations and legs brown. Expanse 2 | inches. Hab. Ceylon (Sir W. Gregory). Family LASIOCAMPIDJE. M U S T I L I A SPHINGIFORMIS, u. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 4.) Male and Female ochreous-red, darkest along external border of fore wing and on abdominal half of hind wing : fore wing with an oblique indistinct brown wavy line from apex to near posterior angle, and two median transverse irregular brown lines, retracted inward to costa ; an indistinct costal streak before the apex, and a small dot at end of cell: hind wing dull yellowish on anterior border. Underside dull yellowish ochreous : fore wing with an indistinct curved brown line from apex, and hind wing with two transverse median indistinct lines; shaft of antennae and narrow frontal band at base white. Expanse, cf 2, 5 3 inches. Hab. Masuri, N.W. Himalaya (Major Hutton). In coll. F. Moore. K O S A L A , n. g. Female. Fore wing somewhat short and narrow; costa arched near end, apex acute, exterior margin slightly oblique, posterior angle convex; first branch of subcostal vein arising at half length of the cell, second near its end and forked at one third its length, fourth from end of the cell and also forked at one third its length ; discocellulars slender, curved inward ; radial from upper end of the cell; median vein four-branched, the two upper from end of the cell; submedian running near the margin. Hind wing truncated ; anterior margin short, angled at apex; exterior margin truncated, convex in middle; hind margin long, nearly straight; subcostal branches straight, from near base of the cell; median four-branched, the branches contiguous at their base ; a median and internal vein. Body robust, extending slightly beyond hind wing ; antennas bipec- |