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Show 1883.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 17 second joint densely pilose in front, third joint short, thick ; femora pilose beneath, tibiae thickish and compactly pilose, fore tibiae tufted beneath ; antennae long, finely pectinated. BARADESA LITHOSIOIDES, n. sp. (Plate V. fig. 2.) Male. Fore wing deep rufous-brown, indistinctly streaked with ochreous longitudinally through the cell and above the posterior margin ; some black sinuous streaks acrossJ the base, and others before the middle; three or four irregular oblique series of discal spots, and a marginal row of double dots: hind wing ochreous-yellow, with a broad ochreous-brown marginal band; cilia yellow. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs rufous-brown; abdomen yellow, with a broad dorsal band on the three anal segments. Expanse 3§ inches. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. Fam. LIPARID^E. L Y M A N T R I A FULIGINOSA, n. sp. Allied to L. pusilla, Felder (Nov. Voy. pi. 99. f. 3). Male. Fore wing with fuliginous-black transverse sinuous bands and spots, their interspaces ochreous-grey : hind wing dull yellowish-ochreous, with a broad, irregular-bordered fuliginous-black marginal band, this colour also indistinctly pervading the anterior border. Female. Fore wing with broad transverse confluent sinuous bands, their interspaces greyish white: hind wing fuliginous black, with an ill-defined whitish discal macular fascia. Thorax fuliginous in male, white in female, with a blackish frontal and central spot ; abdomen ochreous, with indistinct blackish dorsal and lateral spots. Expanse 8 If. 2 2f inches. Hab. Bombay (Br. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. Genus TRISULOIDES. Trisuloides, Butler, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1881, vii. p. 36. TRISULOIDES CATOCALINA, n. sp. Female. Allied to T. sericea, Butler. Of larger size: fore wing darker chestnut-brown, the basal area sparsely grey-speckled, crossed by a subbasal black, zigzag, pale ochreous-bordered line, a curved discal sinuous pale-bordered line, and an outer densely grey-speckled blackish sinuous-margined fascia, the outer border of the wing being slightly ochreous, and with a marginal black lunular line; an orbicular and reniform black mark: hind wing pale chestnut- brown, with a broad medial transverse ochreous-yellow band; a linear series of slender whitish lunules from anal angle. Thorax hoary, with chestnut-brown hindward tufts; abdomen brown, with dorsal chestnut-brown tufts ; palpi and legs hoary. Underside dull chestnut-brown, the lower basal and discal area ochreous-yellow; apex grey-speckled . hind wing with a broad lower medial ochreous- P R O C . Z O O L . S o c - 1 8 8 3 , No. II. 2 |
