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Show 388 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, lunules, which are confluent between the veins and interrupted the upper median branch and the radial; tbe seventh with a dark triangular grey-speckled patch at apical end ; an oblique fascia formed across tbe wing by the bent end of the fourth band and the outer parallel lunules: hind wing densely black at the base, and black-speckled on the disk, with a distinct transverse narrow sinuous band; abdominal border pale ochreous. Abdomen paler cinnamon colour. Thorax and top of head with a longitudinal dusky streak ; front of head black; shaft of antennae pink. Legs pink ; tibiae black at sides ; hind tibiae with a white streak above ; spurs white. Underside paler-coloured, with three or four median transverse indistinct dusky sinuous bands: fore wing with a broad black streak from base below the cell, and a narrow oblique apical line. Expanse 4\ inches. Hab. N. China. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Nearest allied to C. bilineata (Basiana bilineata, Walk.), from N.E. Bengal, from which it differs above in being of an entirely different colour and markings. AMBULYX AURIPENNIS, n. sp. Male. Upperside--fore wing golden-brown, palest at the base and greenish-tinted externally; a small pale-bordered dark sap-brown spot at the base, and a larger spot below the cell; a pale sap-brown narrow band recurving from apex to posterior angle; four equidistant short, oblique, indistinct costal streaks, and two less distinct transverse discal sinuous lines : hind wing dark ochreous, anterior border yellowish, crossed by three short blackish sinuous fasciae, the base of wing also blackish. Body ochreous-brown, pink-tinted; a frontal band, broad lateral band on thorax, and a narrow dorsal line sap-brown. Palpi, pectus, and anal segments beneath ferruginous. Underside yellowish ferruginous; disk brown-speckled; a grey marginal band on fore wing. Expanse 3 inches. Hab. Ceylon (Sir W. H. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum. Nearest allied to A. rhodoptera, Butler, from Darjiling. TRIPTOGON RECTILINEA, U. sp. 3Iale. Nearest allied to T. fuscescens, Butler, Trans. Z. S. ix.p. pi. 93. f. 2, but of smaller size. Fore wing deeper-coloured, the transverse lines blacker, there being four in the subbasal series, which are erect and not curved outwards; the discal pair are both angled at the middle; and the outer pair are close together and parallel throughout their length : hind wing of a brighter chestnut colour, with a smaller greyish anal area, and with a continuous dark streak; middle of thorax and a posterior band dark chestnut. Expanse 2-| inches. Hab. N. India. In coll. Dublin Museum. |