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Show 1879.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 415 CUSUMA, n. g. Differs from typical Euschema (E. militaris, Linn.) in the abbreviated and trigonal shape of the fore wing, the exterior margin being less oblique and the posterior margin shorter : neuration similar ; the discocellulars, however, are less acutely angled and not curved posteriorly : hind wing also shorter and more convex exteriorly. Thorax clothed with shorter and less shaggy hair. Palpi smaller, less pilose, terminal joint shorter and slightly clavate. CUSUMA LIMBATA, n. sp. Female. Upperside--fore wing dark purple-black, with a bluish white, diaphanous, oblique subapical spot, crossed by two veins, and a small oblique spot within the cell: hind wing golden yellow, with a broad, wavy-bordered, purple-black marginal band, which extends narrowly along anterior margin and terminates in a spot at its base. Thorax, bead, antennae, dorsal bands, and tip purple-black. Abdomen above and beneath, and sides of thorax, golden yellow. Legs black above, yellow beneath. Underside of wings as above. Expanse 2f inches. Hab. Ceylon. In coll. Capt. Wade. Allied to C. vilis (Euschema vilis, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. ii. p. 408), also from Ceylon. Fam. ? URAPTERYGID^E. KALABANA, n. g. Fore wing somewhat elongated, costa slightly arched before the end, apex acute, slightly falcate, exterior margin oblique ; cell short, broad; first and second branches of subcostal vein arising before end of the cell, third trifurcate, lowest branch at one-half length from the cell; radial from upper end of the cell; discocellulars concave ; median vein three-branched, two upper from end of the cell; sub-median vein contiguous to posterior margin. Hind wing trigonal, apex and exterior margin convex ; subcostal vein two-branched, first arising before end of tbe cell; discocellulars angled in middle : median vein three-branched ; a submedian and internal vein. Body short; head small. Palpi minute, pilose, porrect. Legs slender, sparsely hairy ; middle and hind spined. Antennae in male bipec-tinate, the pectinations long and plumose, setose in female. Type, E. picaria (Lagyra picaria, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. pt. 26, p. 1541). Hab. Java. KALABANA ALBIFERA, n. sp. Female. Black : fore wing with a small white spot at apex, a short oblique irregular streak beyond the cell, and a conical spot on hind margin near the angle: hind wing with a broad white, slightly sinuous-bordered band, recurving from above anal angle to near middle of anterior margin. Underside as above. Expanse 2f inches. |