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Show 1879.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 411 men reddish ; antennae grey. Underside uniform brownish fawn-colour. Expanse 3f inches. Hab. Ceylon (Sir W. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum and F. Moore. Distinguished from S. bimaculata, which is also found in Ceylon, in being a third less in size and of a very much darker colour. The larva, of which drawings of both species are before me, is also differently marked from that of S. bimaculata. BRACHYLIA, Felder. Brachylia, Felder, Nov. Voy. Lep. v. pi. 82. f. 7. BRACHYLIA ACRONYCTOIDES, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 4.) Male and Female. Upperside--fore wing greyish-brown, greyest at the apex, crossed externally by black wavy, partly interrupted reticulations, some of which are disposed in an outwardly oblique line across the disk: hind wing pale greyish brown, indistinctly marked with black reticulations. Underside fuliginous brown, reticulations somewhat confluent and darkest in male; abdomen greyish brown, paler beneath, and with pale bands above ; antennae dark brown. Expanse If to If inch. Hab. Bombay (Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. ARBELA, n. g. Fore wing elongated ; costa nearly straight, exterior margin oblique and slightly convex; posterior margin convex at base; third subcostal vein trifid, first fork ascending at one third beyond end of the cell, second from one third before the apex : hind wing short, exterior margin very convex. Antennae short, closely bipectinate ; head small, palpi minute ; body slender, hairy ; abdomen extending one third beyond hind wing, with short dorsal lax tufts and longer anal tuft; legs hairy on one side. ARBELA TETRAONIS, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 3.) Allied to A. quadrinotata, Walk. Male. Upperside pale greyish ochreous : fore wing crossed by numerous compact dark-brown maculated bands, spot at end of the cell black : hind wing sparsely crossed by brown strigae ; cilia alternate pale and dark brown. Body greyish brown, interspersed with dark brown tufts. Antennae and legs pale ochrey-brown. Underside greyish white, with the markings less prominent. Expanse lg inch. Hab. Bombay (Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. ARBELA TESSELLATA. Cossus tessellatus, Moore, Asiat. Soc. Beng. Desc. Lep. Atk. Coll. p. 85 (1878). Hab. Calcutta. |