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Show 1879.] MR; F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 403 wing with narrow brown marginal band. Thorax brown. Palpi and legs brown-streaked. Underside brighter-coloured. Expanse If inch. Hab. Canara, S. India (Ward). In coll. F. Moore. LYMANTRIA SINICA, n. sp. 31ale greyish brown: fore wing crossed by darker zigzag inner bands, and an outer broader lunular whitish speckled band; an angled blackish streak at end of the cell, and a marginal series of small spots : hind wing with indistinct darker marginal band. Underside paler, with very indistinct costal and marginal spots, and a spot at end of the cell. Thorax brown, collar red. Abdomen reddish-tinged. Palpi dusky black at the side. Legs with black bands. Expanse If to If inch. Hab. N. China (Shanghai) and Formosa. In coll. F. Moore. LYMANTRIA ALBOLUNTJLATA, n. sp. Male and Female. Greyish brown, darkest in female: fore wing crossed by indistinct, black-speckled, sinuous bands, and marginal row of spots, the outer band lunular and white-speckled; a prominent black-angled mark at end of the cell, a narrow streak before it, and broader straight streak below the cell: hind wing with indistinct maculated marginal border and cilia. Thorax dark brown, with slight red collar. Abdomen reddish, with brownish hands. Underside pale brown, with blackish costal and marginal spots, and indistinct angled mark at end of the cell. Palpi reddish and black at the side. Legs slightly reddish and black-streaked. Expanse, cf If, $ 2g inch. Hab. Simla, Dharmsala, N . W . Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. Fam. NOTODONTID^E. M O M A C H A M P A , n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 2.) Male and Female. Cinereous white, slightly vinous-tinted in the male. Cilia alternated with black. Fore wing with black basal and costal zigzag streaks, a double subbasal and discal transverse sinuous lines, the intermediate space streaked and spotted, and suffused with black hindward ; an oval ringlet near end of the cell; a submarginal interrupted broader sinuous line, and marginal row of short, narrow, straight, longitudinal streaks : hind wing dusky at the apex, yellowish on abdominal border, veins externally and a marginal line black. Head and thorax white, transversely black-streaked. Abdomen yellowish, with dorsal row of black and white tufted spots ; apical tuft white in male. Underside--fore wing blackish anteriorly, costa white-spotted : hind wing with short black apical and discal band, costal streak, a small spot at end of the cell, and veins externally black. Palpi white, the tip and a lateral streak black. Legs white with black bands. Allied to M. ludiflca, of Europe. Expanse, cf If, $ If inch. Hab. Dharmsala, N . W . Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. 26* |