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Show 1878.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW HESPERID.E. 689 series of seven spots, the four upper and the seventh smallest, upper three being contiguous and obliquely before the apex, the sixth below end of the cell and the largest. Underside greyer-brown in the female : fore wing marked as in male, except that the lowest spot is more diffused : hind wing without spots. Expanse, 3 If, 3 If inch. Hab. Calcutta (Farr) ; Cherra Punji (Atkinson). In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. HESPERIA TOONA, n. sp. Allied to H. eltola, Hewits. Exot. Butt. Hesp. pl. 4. f. 40. Male. Differs in the fore wings being slightly more elongate, the hind wing more convex exteriorly, and the anal angle less lobed ; markings above similar, those on the fore wing narrower, the spot between the median branches elongated and extending to their basal angle ; those on the hind wing very small, the outer spot crossed by a vein. Underside brownish-ochreous; base of fore wing sliglitly dusky-ochreous ; markings as above. Expanse lj\ inch. Hab. N.E. Bengal (A. Grote). In coll. F. Moore. HESPERIA SUBGRISEA, n. sp. (Plate XLV. fig. 5.) Allied to II. gremius, Fabr. (Butler, Catal. Fabr. Lep. B. M. p. 271, pl. 3. f. 7). Male. Differs above in having th<? three oblique discal spots smaller, the lowest appearing only as a few greenish-grey scales, the upper subapical series of two and a single spot at upper end of the cell very minute. Underside less grey in colour, the fore wing marked as above; hind wing with an indistinct black cell-spot and a discal series of spots. Expanse 1-| inch. Haib. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood and F. Moore. PITHAURIA, n. g. Fore wing elongated, narrow ; apex pointed ; exterior margin very oblique; hind margin short; hind wing convex externally, lobular at anal angle. Head and thorax very broad, robust; abdomen not so long as hind wing. Antennse with a slender club and very long whip-like tip. Venation similar to Pamphila. PITHAURIA MURDAVA. (Plate XLV. fig. 13.) Hesperia murdava, Moore, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 784. Hab. Darjiling. H A L P E , n. g. Allied to Pamphila (P. sylvanus). Antennse with a more slender club and longer hook at tip. Fore wing shorter; exterior margin more convex; the discal oblique series of raised scales in male shorter and broader. Head and thorax smaller; abdomen slender. Veins similar, the lower median branch being nearer end of the cell. |
