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Show 412 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, ARBELA QUADRINOTATA. Cossusq uadrinotatus, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B.M. vii. p. 1521. Hab. Ceylon. PHASSUS SALSETTENSIS, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 5.) Male. Upperside :-fore wing ferruginous-brown, crossed by a subbasal and median band formed of dull chalybeate quadrate spaces between the veins, and outer rows of similar decussated marks : hind wing fuliginous-brown ; costal border and cilia ferruginous-brown. Thorax and legs dark fuliginous-brown, abdomen pale. Underside dark fuliginous-brown. Expanse 2| inches. Hab. Bombay (Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. PHASSUS MALABARICUS, n. sp. Male. Pale umber-brown : fore wing with broad pale greyish chalybeate streaks, with dark-brown borders on the costa, a triangular space in the cell, narrow streaks on hind margin from the base, and transverse discal and submarginal band formed of quadrate marks; a yellow lunule ascending obliquely from end, and a longitudinal narrow mark near base of the cell: hind wing ochreous-brown along the costa, greyish at base. Abdomen greyish at base. Female. Pale brownish ochreous; markings as in male, except that the yellow mark at end of the cell is tear-shaped. Expanse, cf 3|, $ 4f inches. Hab. Sircy, N. Canara (Ward) ; Ooty, Niligiris (Dr. Day). In coll. F. Moore. PHASSUS CHALYBEATUS, n. sp. Male. Fore wing pale ferruginous, greyish at the base and along outer margin ; some greyish chalybeate brown-bordered spaces on the costa, a broad triangular space across middle of the cell, a wavy band across the disk, a submarginal row of duplex lunules or letter- X-shaped marks, and narrow streaks on hind margin ; a serial row of dark-brown dots between the chalybeate discal band and sub-marginal lunules; a narrow white upright lunule at end, and a similar though less apparent lunule near base of the cell: hind wing pale ferruginous, veins darker, with some narrow gre37ish chalybeate streaks on costa near the apex. Thorax and legs ochreous-brown. Abdomen paler. Female. Upperside dark ferruginous : fore wing with some darker quadrate spots on costa; discal and submarginal bands formed of indistinct, mostly quadrate, chalybeate irregular spaces between the veins; the interspaces between the bands darker ferruginous ; a recurved chalybeate streak from the base, and short streaks ou hind margin : hind wing brownish ferruginous, palest at the base; some pale chalybeate marks on costa near apex. Underside uniform pale ferruginous. Palpi and legs dark ferruginous. Expanse, cf 3, $ 5 inches. Hab. Darjiling (A. Grote). In coll. F. Moore. |