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Show 1879.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 389 BOMBYCES. Fam. AGARISTID^E. SETJDYRA, Stretch, Cistula Entom. ii. p. 19 (1875). SEUDYRA VENOSA, n. sp. Upperside-fore wing with the apex and broad band on hind margin dark chestnut-brown, suffused with lilac and crossed by sinuous white lines ; intermediate space from the base greyish white speckled with black, the veins being prominently whitish; a transverse, subbasal, curved greyish line and a tortuous discal double line, enclosing a pale-bordered, oval, orbicular and large reniform spot, both the lines terminating near together on middle of hind margin : hind wing golden yellow, with a broad black marginal band, which is broken at anal angle. Cilia grey. Thorax chestnut-brown, grey-speckled ; abdomen and legs golden yellow, with a short basal dorsal brown tuft. Underside--fore wing with the basal third yellow, the outer portion black, and enclosing a small white quadrate spot before end of the cell, and a large, broad, oblique discal spot beyond: hind wing yellow, with broad outer black band and a terminal anal spot: a marginal row of white dentate marks on both wings. Exp. If to 2-f inches. Hab. Darjiling (Russell). In coll. F. Moore. Fam. ZYG^ENID^E. ZYG^ENA ASOKA, n. sp. Fore wing blackish green, with five orange-yellow spots, the first subbasal, the second and third costal, each at one third its length, the fourth below the cell, the fifth subapical and crossed by two black veins : hind wing jet-black, with two large crimson-red spaces, one being basal, the other apical and longitudinally black-streaked. Antennae steel-blue. Head, thorax, and body jet-black. An orange-yellow spot on each side of front of thorax. Second and third anal segment crimson-red. Legs black. Exp. If inch. Hab. N.W. India. In coll. late C. H o m e , Esq. SYNTOMIS AUSTENI, n. sp. Yellowish hyaline. Veins prominently black: fore wing with narrow black marginal band, streak along lower median veinlet, and band between upper median and lower subcostal veinlets: hind wing with marginal black band dentated below lower median veinlet; anal margin yellow. Body jet-black, middle and sides of thorax and broad band on each segment of abdomen orange-red, tip being black. Legs brownish black. Exp. If inch. Hab. Surarium, N.E. Bengal (Godwin-Austen). In coll. F. Moore. |