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Show 396 MR. F. MOORE ON N E W ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, Expanse 1^ inch. Hab. Cashmere (Stakpila Pass)/12,000 feet. In coll. Capt. H. B. Hellard. PANGORA, Moore, Asiat. Soc. Beng., Desc. Lep. Atk. Coll. p. 42 (1878). PANGORA MATHERANA, n. sp. Male and Female. Upperside--fore wing olive-brown, with a cream-white broad irregular patch at base, a median transverse distorted band, and large upper and lower outer marginal spots, the basal patch with two small lower black spots and a streak beneath them : hind wing ochrey-yellow, with a brown narrow transverse median band, and a broad outer band enclosing upper and lower marginal yellow spots; the outer band broken in the male. Top of head and thorax white, black-spotted, and with a streak down middle of thorax. Abdomen ochrey-yellow, with dorsal and lateral row of black spots. Body beneath and legs brown ; femora above yellow. Palpi yellow, tip black. Antennae brown, basal joint yellow. Underside marked as above, the basal and median spaces on fore wing being also yellow. Near to P. erosa, Walk. Expanse, c? l£, $ 2$ inches. Hab. Matheran Hill, Bombay (Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore and British Museum. RAJENDRA, Moore, Asiat. Soc. Beng., Desc. Lep. Atk. Coll. p. 43 (1878). Form and neuration similar to Creatonotus, but differs in the hind wing being shorter, less produced at the apex, and the greater convexity of the hind margin. Palpi prominent; antennae minutely bipectinate in male, simple in female. Type R. lativitta, Moore, /. c. p. 43. This genus will embrace Aha sipahi and A. nigricans, Moore, and also several other small species of Tiger-moths described by Mr. Walker under Aloct, but which are not congeneric with the type of that genus, these being characterized chiefly by having a longitudinal pale band on the fore wing ; they are A. Integra, dentata, biguttata. RAJENDRA VITTATA, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 12.) Male. Fore wing brownish black, with a broad,longitudinal,curved, pinkish white band from base to apex : hind wing pale pink, with a blackish streak at base of anterior margin, a spot at end of the cell, another spot at anal angle, and two very indistinct grey-speckled submarginal spots. Cilia of both wings white. Middle of thorax black ; tegulae and sides of head pink-white, a black spot on each tegula. Abdomen bright red above, beneath and dorsal bands black. Antennae greyish. Front of head and palpi black. Legs black, femora red. Underside of wings as above. Expanse If inch. |