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Show 392 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, from end of cell, but separated at base; a submedian and two internal veins. Body short ; antennae bipectinate in male, slightly serrate in female; thorax slightly pilose; abdomen and legs nearly naked. Allied to Agalope, Walker. BORADIA CARNEOLA, n. Sp. Male and Female subby aline, pale flesh-colour, yellowish at base of fore wing. Abdomen black ; thorax and head above yellowish ; antennae and legs black ; tarsi tawny. Expanse \\ inch. Hab. Dharmsala, N.W. Himalaya (Rev. II. Hocking). In coll. Lord Walsingham and F. Moore. CYCLOSIA SUBFLAVA, n. sp. Male. Upperside pale dull buff-yellow: fore wing with the veins blue-lined basally, and broadly with black externally, their outer ends forming a narrow marginal band, the interspaces on the disk minutely black-speckled : hind wing with the veins at the extreme base and externally blue-lined, outer marginal band narrow, black apically, blue posteriorly. Thorax, head above, and antennae steel-blue ; abdomen green ; front of head and palpi white, the latter blue at sides. Legs blue above, white beneath. Underside blacker-veined than above; basal area of hind wing bright yellow. Expanse 2 inches. Hab. Malacca (Eichhorn). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Distinguished from C. papilionaria by the absence of the marginal row of spots on both wings, and in the basal area of the hind wing being bright yellow beneath. CANERKES SEMIPLENA. Euschema semiplena, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. p. 177 (1864), ?. Hab. Malacca. In coll. F. Moore (ex coll. Norris). RATARDA, n. g. Male and Female. Wings obovate. Fore wing short, costa slightly arched, apex and exterior margin very convex, posterior margin short; costal vein short; subcostal vein four-branched, first branch starting at half length of the cell, second trifurcate, the upper fork at half its length, second fork near apex ; cell short, oblique ; discocellulars very oblique, bent in the middle, each slightly curved; a discoidal veinlet emitted from angle of discocellulars, continuous with the radial and extending to base of the cell; radial from middle of the discocellulars ; median vein four-branched, the two upper from angles at end of the cell; a submedian and an internal vein. Hind wing of the same length as fore wing, convex externally ; costal vein short; cell broad, short, oblique ; upper discocellular short, lower very oblique; subcostal two-branched, first before end of cell • a |