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Show 1879.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 393 straight discoidal veinlet from middle angle of discocellulars to base of ceil; median four-branched, two upper from angles at end of the cell; a submedian and two internal veins. Body short, sparsely pilose. Legs short, sparsely pilose. Legs short, slender, nearly naked. Palpi minute, pilose. Antennae bipectinated. RATARDA MARMORATA, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 1.) Male. Upperside-fore wing blackish fuliginous, with a white irregular space within the cell, large circular-shaped spots below it, and very indistinct speckled spots beyond : hind wing blackish fuliginous on external half, the base white ; outer half slightly white-speckled. Underside similar to above, the wrhite on fore wing more diffused, and the hind wing more prominently white-speckled. Female blacker than male. Body blackish fuliginous. Legs yellowish. Expanse 3 If, $ l^Vinch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore and British Museum, KLABOANA, n. g. Female. Fore wing elongated ; costa slightly arched at base, apex somewhat pointed, exterior margin nearly straight; first branch of subcostal vein short, oblique, and anastomosed to costal, second before end of tbe cell, free, third trifurcate, upper starting at nearly half length beyond the cell, the two lower on a foot-stalk near junction with upper ; radial starting from below subcostal at beyond half distance between end of the cell and third branch ; cell broad at its end ; discocellulars bent very obliquely inward, upper shortest; a discoidal upper veinlet emitted within the cell from middle of discocellulars and extending to its end, a lower shorter discoidal veinlet from lower end of discocellulars and joining the upper one at one third its length ; median vein four-branched, two upper branches from point at lower end of the cell; a submedian and internal vein. Hind wing broad, apex and exterior margin convex, abdominal margin as long as the body; cell broad ; subcostal vein angled upward at first branch and oblique beyond, first branch very short and anastomosed to costal, second from end of cell; discocellulars contiguous and bent inward, upper angled near subcostal; radial starting from angle of upper discocellular; median four-branched, each branch from nearly equidistant angles, upper curved and close to radial; a submedian and two internal veins. Body slender; abdomen with an anal radiated tuft of short fine hairs. Antennae bipectinate. Palpi small. Legs long, squamous; middle and hind legs armed only with a very small terminal pair of spurs. KLABOANA MACULARIA. Gynautocera macularia, Gue'r. Deless. Voy. p. 83, pi. 25. fig. 2. Hab. Malacca. |