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Show 1879.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 399 abdomen; fore wing with a small black spot at upper end of the cell; fore legs above lined with black, middle tibiae at their end and middle and hind tarsi black-streaked; abdomen with an indistinct series of small black dorsal and lateral spots ; palpi black, streaked above ; pectinations of antennae blackish. Expanse, <$ 1, $l|inch. Hab. Dharmsala, N . W . Himalaya (Rev. II. Hocking). In coll. Lord Walsingham and F. Moore. CHALLA DISCALIS, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 7.) Male. Pale ochreous-yellow ; thorax and abdomen brighter ochreous: fore wing with a short, indistinct, blackish maculated discal band crossing from upper end of the cell, and thence obliquely to above middle of posterior margin ; a similar-coloured spot within middle of the cell, one below it, and another at base of the costa : hind wing with an indistinct similar-coloured spot at upper end of the cell, crossed by the discocellular vein. Abdomen with a dorsal and lateral row of very small black spots. Palpi, fore legs, and tarsi above black-streaked ; pectinations of antennae blackish. Expanse lT ljinch. Hab. N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. Fam. LIPARIDJE. AROA OCHRIPICTA, n. sp. Male. Bright ochreous-red; fore wing slightly brownish along the costal border and below the cell. Female. Pale greyish ochreous-brown, greyest on fore wing. Expanse, eS lT 2o* ? Wtf inch* Hab. Hong-kong. In coll. Dr. O. Staudinger. Allied to A. substrigosa, Walker, from Assam, and to A. socrus, Hiibn. Zutr. f. 837, from Java. ARTAXA TJNIMACULA, n. sp. Male and Female. Fore wing clear ochreous, with a broad median transverse, pale-bordered, darker band, which is less apparent in the female ; a single black spot before the apex. Cilia whitish. Hind wing yellowish white. Abdomen brownish, tuft ochreous. Expanse, 6 If, $ If incn* Hab. Khasia hills (G.-Austen). In coll. F. Moore. Allied to A. diagramma, Boisd.; distinguished by having but a single apical black spot, and in the difference of the colour of the abdomen. ARTAXA LEITHIANA, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 9.) Male and Female. Upperside pale yellow : fore wing with a median transverse, recurved, oblique, black maculated band, terminating within end of the cell and not extending hindward to the marefn. Abdomen ochreous. Underside-;fore wing in male dusky |