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Show 392 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON NEW INDIAN LEPIDOPTERA. [June 1, apex; secondaries grey, costa yellow, subcostal, abdominal, and disco-anal areas carmine-red : the disco-anal area mottled with yellow ; three central brown lines diverging upon costa, and traversed by a waved transverse series of seven black dots upon the nervures; a golden spot in the cell; two submarginal brown lines, the inner one only extending along the margin of the discal carmine area ; margin ferruginous, fringe as above ; expanse of wings 2 inches 6 lines. Darjeeling, June 1874 (Sadler). Type, B.M. Genus LEUCOPHLEBIA. L E U C O P H L E B I A D A M A S C E N A , n. sp. Allied to L. bicolor, altogether darker, with narrower silky ochreous streak on primaries. %. Head and thorax deep dull plum-colour, a dorsal ochreous thoracic streak ; antennae whity brown ; abdomen greyish rose-red, with central longitudinal buff streak; segments margined behind with deep ochreous, with a whitish fringe; primaries deep plum-colour, a broad streak of silky ochreous, tapering towards base and apex, and throwing out spine-like streaks along the median branches and radials ; fringe near external angle pale stramineous ; secondaries deep ochreous ; outer margin rosy, fringe and costal area stramineous ; wings and body below nearly as in L. bicolor; expanse of wings 2 inches 5 lines. Sikkim (Whitely). Type, B.M. The most richly coloured, and consequently the most beautiful species in the genus. The two preceding species having been obtained subsequent to the reading of m y papers on the Sphingidae, I have thought it best to send them to the ** Proceedings,' as they can thus be added with greater brevity to m y revision of the family. Family LITHOSIIDJI. Genus A G A L O P E . AGALOPE PRIMULARIS. Allied to A. basalis, but the entire ground-colour of the primaries in the male lemon-yellow, and the basal orange spot brighter; primaries of the female without the basal orange spot; the primaries yellowish, with the base and a diffused streak below the median nervure lemon-yellow ; expanse of wings, cf 1 inch 6 lines, £ I incn 8 lines. cA 2 • Darjeeling, M a y 1874 (Sadler). Type, B.M. There were only two examples of this species in the fine collection recently sent home by Mr. Sadler. I believe, however, that two other examples exist in the collection of Dr. Anderson. The species is a very beautiful one. Genus C A D P H I S E S. C A D P H I S E S M O O R E I , n.sp. Wings black, with purplish reflections, the entire surface covered |