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Show 398 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, hind wing yellowish white, veins and two median transverse partially- interrupted bands, and cilia fuliginous. Legs blackish above, ochraceous beneath. Expanse 2 inches. Hab. Dharmsala, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. RHYPARIA TIGRINA, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 4.) 31ale. Upperside yellowish ochraceous : fore wing with broad black streak along basal end of each vein, and two transverse confluent series of outer spots : hind wing with black costal border, a suffused spot at end of the cell, and a broad, irregular-bordered sub-marginal band. A black central spot on thorax, dorsal bands and lateral spots on abdomen. Underside as above. Antennae, side of head, and palpi black. Legs black, femora ochreous. Expanse If inch. Hab. Pulney Hills, S. India (Sealy). In coll. India Museum and F. Moore. Somewhat allied to R. strigatula (Arctia strigatula, Walker), from Java, but of different colour and markings. CYCNIA TRANSVERSA, n. sp. Upperside pale purplish testaceous : fore wing crossed by six black equidistant, irregular, interrupted bands and a marginal row of spots, the bands bent inward and broadest at the costal end: hind wing with a black spot at end of the cell, and an interrupted submarginal series. Underside paler; marked as above. Body black-spotted. Expanse \\ inch. Hab. N.W. India. In coll. F. Moore. CHALLA, n. g. Male and Female. Fore wing elongate, narrow, costa slightly arched towards end, apex nearly convex, exterior margin oblique; subcostal vein five-branched, first branch starting immediately before end of the cell; second from end of cell, quadrifid, the three upper forks short, lowest from below junction of first fork ; radial from upper end of the cell ; discocellulars of equal length, bent inward ; a very slender discoidal veinlet emitted within the cell; median vein four-branched, two upper branches joined together at their base, and starting from end of the cell, third contiguous; submedian vein near the posterior margin. Hind wing ohovate, subcostal touching the costal at its base, two-branched from end of the cell; upper discocellular shortest, lower very obliquely outward ; a discoidal veinlet emitted within the cell; median four-branched, the three upper starting from end of the cell; a submedian and two interior veins. Body short, laxly pilose ; antennae bipectinate in male, minutely serrate-pectinate in female ; palpi short, minute ; femora and tibiae slightly pilose. Allied to Alpenus, Walker. CHALLA BIMACULATA, n. sp. Male and Female. Ochreous-yellow, deepest on fore wing and |