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Show 414 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, red on outside of tibia and tarsus, and black on inside of tarsus. Antennae dull ferruginous, shaft black. Expanse \T l$ inch. Hab. Masuri, N.W. Himalaya (Hutton). In coll. F. Moore. PSEUDOSESIA GROTEI, n. Sp. Margins, veins, and discocellular streak in both wings steel-blue; apical band and cilia purple ; apical area traversed by four veins, basal area by median vein only. Thorax, frontal tuft, and abdomen steel-blue. Palpi and pectus fulvous. Legs steel-blue, fringed with short fulvous hairs above. Expanse If inch. Hab. N. India. In coll. F. Moore. The genus Pseudosesia of Felder is allied to Melittia, but differs in the absence, on the hind wing, of the branch of the costal vein, in the two upper median branches starting together from end of the cell; the body is much more attenuated, the anal segment and the legs not densely pilose. GEOMETRES. Fam. EUSCHEMIDJE. EUSCHEMA BELLISSIMA, n. sp. Male and Female. Blackish purple. Fore wing with two pale-yellow, elongated, straight basal streaks, tbe upper within the cell, the lower beneath it, and a yellow spot above and another below the submedian vein ; a large bluish-white diaphanous spot in middle of the cell, one below it, two at its end, and a transverse discal series of spots : hind wing with a broad yellow subbasal band, a median, irregular, indistinct fascia, a zigzag discal and a marginal series of small yellow spots. Body yellow, with black-purple bands. Underside as above, the yellow markings broader and more prominent. Expanse, cf 2|, § 2g inches. Hab. Ceylon (Sir W.H. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum. Nearest allied to the Bornean species, E. subrepleta, Walk. EUSCHEMA PRUNICOLOR, n. sp. Upperside dark glossy purple: fore wing with an elongated and a short ochreous streak between the lower median branch and sub-median vein; two small bluish diaphanous spots within the cell, two at its end, a subapical oblique series and three on the disk : hind wing with an indistinct, ochreous, short subbasal patch, some brighter ochreous small spots on the disk, a submarginal zigzag series, and a marginal dentate series. Abdominal border partly yellow. Body yellow ; head, thorax, and abdomen above with purple bands. Palpi black-tipped. Antennae purple-black. Underside-fore wing as above: hind wing with a short costal and subbasal band, and larger discal, submarginal, and marginal spots than above. Legs above grey, yellow beneath. Expanse 2f inches. Hab. Ceylon. In coll. Capt. Wade. |