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Show 400 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, brown along anterior border. Palpi dusky brown at the side. Fore legs ochreous-brown in front. Expanse, J If, $ If inch. Hab. Bombay (Dr. Leith), N . Canara (Ward). In coll. F. Moore. ARTAXA ERECTA, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 6.) Female. Pale yellow -.fore wing vciih a broad, median, transverse, erect, ochreous-brown speckled band." Expanse 11 inch. Hab. Canara, S. India (Ward). In coll. F. Moore. ARTAXA BREVIVITTA, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 10.) Male. Ochrey-yellow, paler on hind wing : fore wing with a broad, black-speckled, short band, extending from middle of hind margin upward to end of the cell. Underside of anterior border ochreous. Expanse lg inch. Hab. Bengal (Russell). In coll. F. Moore. Allied to A. howra, Moore, from Calcutta. Distinguished from it by tbe broad band on hind margin and in the absence of a black cell-spot. EUPROCTIS SUBDITA, n. Sp. 31ale. Upperside white : hind wing with the anterior border and apex thickly irrorated with brown scales ; anal tuft bright yellow. Underside--fore wing with the anterior border broadly dusky black : hind wing with the anterior border narrowly speckled with brown. Antennae dusky brown, shaft white. Exp. 1 inch. Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. Moore. Allied to E. auriflua of Europe. Distinguished by its smaller size and absence of markings on the fore wing. EUPROCTIS FLAVONIGRA, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 11.) 31ale. Upperside-;fore wing yellow : hind wing dark ochreous-brown. Body whitish ; anal tuft yellow. Underside uniform dusky ochreous-brown. Cilia yellow. Antennae blackish, shaft white. Legs yellowish above, white beneath. Expanse 1 g inch. Hab. Nepaul (Gen. Ramsay). In coll. F. Moore. Allied to E. subnigra, Moore, from Cherra Punji, and may be distinguished from it by the difference in colour. EUPROCTIS POSTINCISA, n. sp. (Plate XXXII. fig. 5.) Female. White : fore wing with a median, transverse, narrow, black band, which is outwardly angled at the end of the cell; short oblique black line from posterior angle. Expanse ly4^ inch. Hab. N.E. Bengal (A. Grote). In coll. F. Moore. |