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Show 1883.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 19 Fam. CALPID^E. C A L P E B I C O L O R , n. sp. Fore wing of a purplish brownish-ochreous, with greyish interspaces between the browner oblique fasciae, the line traversing the disk from the apex red, and the numerous slender strigae distinct; some black and white speckles on the veins near the outer margin: hmd wing entirely clear yellow. Thorax, palpi and fore legs above brownish-ochreous, grey-speckled; abdomen and legs yellowish. Underside yellowish-ochreous, palest on hind wing. Cilia of fore wing brcwn. Expanse 2g inches. Hab. Solun, Punjab (N.W. India). In coll. F. Moore. Near to C. ophideroides, but very distinct. It is a third less in size, the fore wing being of an entirely different colour, and is marked similarly to C. minuticornis and its allies. CALPE MINUTICORNIS. Calpe minuticornis, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 374. Nearest allied to C. thalactri, but is a smaller insect; fore wing browner in colour and with grey-washed interspaces between the oblique fasciae ; the hind wing is also darker, and has a perceptibly darker outer margin; underside of fore wing uniformly pale dusky brownish-ochreous throughout, and the hind wing has a more decidedly darker marginal border. Expanse If inch. Hab. India (Bombay, Darjiling); Ceylon ; ? Java. Fam. GoNOPTERIDiE. G O N I T I S F U L V I D A. Anomis fulvida, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 397 (1852), $. Gonitis guttanivis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M . xiii. p. 1003 (1857), 8. Male. Fore wing ochreous-red, covered with numerous ochreous-yellow scales; crossed by a purple-black oblique waved antemedial line and a medial line, the latter bent outward below the reniform mark and thence zigzag upward to the costa; an indistinct dusky zigzag submarginal fascia ; the veins outward from the medial line speckled with purple-black and grey ; a prominent white orbicular spot, and an oval spot bordering the lower end of the dusky grey reniform mark : hind wing pale ochreous-brown. Cilia edged with white. Thorax and head reddish ochreous; abdomen, palpi, and legs ochreous-brown. Female paler; fore wing with the transverse lines more slender and less distinct, the antemedial and lower part of the medial line angular; orbicular white spot very minute; reniform indistinct and not white at lower end; veins externally less distinctly speckled. Expanse 1| to 1| inch. Hab. India (Darjiling, Khasia hills, Canara); Ceylon ; Java. 2* |