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Show 1878.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW HESPERIDAE. 691 Female. Paler brown above, the yellow bands on the upperside also paler, less prominent, and there being no yellow along the costal border of fore wing, and no median streak from base of the hind wing. Underside pale vinous-brown, this colour pervading the upper portion of the discal on the fore wing and the entire discal band on the hind wing. Expanse, 3 If, 2 If inch. Hab. Calcutta (Grote and Atkinson). In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. •' Larva feeds on the date and cocoa-nut palms " (Atkinson, M S. note). PAMPHILA BAMBUSAE, n. sp. (Plate XLV. figs. 11 & 12, 3 2 )• Allied to P. augias, Linn., from typical Java specimens of which it differs in its somewhat broader and less pointed wings. Markings above similar, but more defined, the borders of the wings blacker, the basal yellow streak on hind wing confined to a terminal spot at the end of the cell, and the abdominal border black. On the underside the markings are also more clearly defined and the interspaces blacker. Expanse, 3 If, 2 If inch. Hab. Calcutta (Frith and Atkinson). In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. " Larva feeds on the bamboo " (Atkinson, M S . note). PAMPHILA SUBOCHRACEA, n. sp. Upperside glossy luteous olive-brown ; cilia yellowish-cinereous. Male. Fore wing with two pale semidiaphanous spots at end of the cell, three contiguous spots obliquely before the apex, three upper discal spots, below which is a narrow white oblique streak or brand: hind wing with three small yellow upper discal spots, the two lowest small. Female. Fore wing with a lower or fourth discal spot, and a small dot below the third spot; the spots angled outward : hind wing as in male. Underside greenish-ochreous, brown on hind border of fore wing and anal lobe ; marginal line brown and prominent : fore wing with the lower spot diffused and white: hind wing with the upper discal white spot large and quadrate; four spots below in a slightly linear position, the upper spot indistinct; a white spot also at upper end of cell, and a smaller indistinct spot above it. Expanse, 3 If, 2 If inch. Hab. Calcutta (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Allied to P. mathias, Fabr., but of larger size and more prominently marked. P A M P H I L A B R A H M A , n.sp. (Plate X L V . fig. 8.) Male Upperside deep ochreous-brown, basal area ochreous. Cilia cinereou's-vellow : fore wing with a black-bordered white streak ob-liouelv below the cell, a semidiaphanous yellowish-white constricted SDOt at end of cell, a small subapical streak of three spots, and two large discal spots, the one above hind margin being ochreous: hind |