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Show 408 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, tinate, the pectinations short and broad ; legs pilose ; palpi stout, robust, densely pilose, extending slightly beyond the head. Allied to Eutricha. KOSALA SANGUINEA, n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. 8.) Female. Upperside deep red: fore wing with two indistinct median transverse narrow black lines, the inner slightly curved, the outer oblique; an indistinct outer zigzag series of blackish marks; a grey-speckled patch at the apex; a white angular discocellular spot between the transverse black lines : hind wing duller red posteriorly ; an indistinct black grey-speckled streak below the apex; apical border grey-speckled. Underside reddish brown; both wings crossed by an indistinct narrow dusky discal fascia. Expanse 2g inches. Hab. Khasia hills (Godwin-Austen). In coll. F. Moore. EUTRICHA CHEELA, n. sp. Allied to E. pini. Male. Upperside reddish fawn-colour : fore wing with an exterior submarginal deeply sinuous black line, from near which the inter-discal space is bright dark ferruginous and traversed with irregular transverse dusky black lines. Underside brownish fawn-colour; both wings with an oblique transverse darker brown median band, and an indistinct outer lunular band. Expanse 2| inches. Hab, Dharmsala, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. Lahore Museum. ODONESTIS PYRIFORMIS, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 7.) Male. Upperside deep ferruginous, washed with purple externally; fore wing with a narrow transverse subbasal curved line, and an oblique recurved discal line with pale outer border; an outer sub-marginal dusky sinuous line ; a large whitish red-centred oblique pyriform spot at end of the cell, and a small white spot above it. Underside paler; both wings crossed by an indistinct dusky discal fascia. Expanse 1^ inch. Hab. Masuri, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. Major A. M . Lang and F. Moore. Allied to O. decisa, Walk. Differs in being smaller, the wings shorter and darker in colour, and having a prominent large cell-spot, the discal line being less oblique. From O. Iceta and O. inobtrusa it is also distinct. ODONESTIS DIVISA, n. sp. Female. Upperside-fore wing dark chestnut-red, dusky red posteriorly, and washed externally with purple-grey ; a narrow pale-bordered line recurving from apex to middle of hind margin; a large pearly-white red-speckled spot at end of the cell, and a small white spot above it: hind wing dark chestnut-red along anterior half, pale purplish red on posterior half, the two colours defined bv |