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Show 1879.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 409 a straight division. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs dusky red ; abdomen pale purplish red. Underside duller-coloured. Expanse 2g inches. Hab. Ceylon (Sir W. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum. MESSATA ^ENESCENS, n. sp. Male. Upperside aenescent-yellow: fore wing with three very prominent oblique, transverse, discal purple brown-speckled bands, the two inner bands linear and curved, the outer one composed of broad lunules ; an inner series of three less oblique, very indistinct, and sparsely speckled bands : hind wing with a distinct submarginal broad purple brown-speckled lunular band. Thorax, head, and fore legs dark ochreous-yellow. Underside duller-coloured, with the bands as above, very indistinct. Expanse 2f inches. Hab. Ceylon (Sir W. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum. May be distinguished from M. plumipes (Dreata plumipes, Walk. Catal. Lep. B.M. iv. p. 907) by the curvature and greater obliquity of the bands on the fore wing, and by the lunular submarginal band on the hind wing. MESSATA QUADRIFASCIATA, n. sp. 3Lale. Upperside brownish ochreous: fore wing numerously speckled with black scales; two oblique transverse black discal bands, the inner band broad and very prominent: hind wing with two black-speckled bands, the inner median, the outer indistinct. Thorax, head, and underside brighter ochreous ; the inner band on both wings prominent. Expanse 2| inches. Hab. Colombo, Ceylon (Hutchison). In coll. F. Moore. MESSATA FRATERNA, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 6.) Female. Upperside reddish-ferruginous, palest on hind wing: fore wing with two oblique, submarginal, indistinct, narrow dusky bands, and hind wing with a single outer band. Underside much paler. Expanse 2 inches. Hab. Bombay (Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. MESSATA VIALIS, n. sp. 3Iale. Upperside luteous-brown : fore wing with a prominent oblique discal black band with pale yellow outer border : hind wing with a very indistinct median and submarginal transverse dusky bands. Underside paler ; a dusky oblique band on fore wing slightly apparent. Front of head, palpi, and legs above dark brown. Expanse 2f inches. Hab. Ceylon (Sir W. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum and F. Moore. |