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Show 528 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [Nov. 20, three red subanal marginal lunules and a white anal lobe-spot. Underside greyish-white : fore wing with a very indistinct blackish discocellular lunule, a submarginal lunular line with the upper end composed of double lunules, and a marginal lunular line : hind wing with a more distinct black discocellular lunular mark, submarginal and marginal lunular line, the upper end of the submarginal line composed of double lunules ; a black spot on the costa near the base, and a lobe and subanal black spot, the two latter slightly yellow, surmounted with dark yellow. Expanse lf^j inch. Hab. Coonoor, Nilgiris (Lindsay). In coll. F. Moore. VADEBRA, n. g. Intermediate between Nadisepa and Rapala. Male with the outline of the wings more of the form of the latter; the fore wing, however, is more acuminate, the exterior margin more oblique and even ; marginal tuft the same; hind wing somewhat broader posteriorly ; glandular depression prominent. Palpi smoother ; antennal club longer and more pointed. Type V. petosiris. VADEBRA PETOSIRIS. Deudorix petosiris, Hewitson, Illust. D. Lep. p. 22, pl. 9. figs. 30, 31 (1863). Hab. Darjiling. VADEBRA PHERETIMA. Deudorixpheretima, Hewitson, Illust. D. Lep. p. 21, pl. 9. figs. 27, 29(1863). Hab. Burmah (Tounghoo), Singapore; Sumatra. VADEBRA SUFFUSA. Deudorix suffusa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 834, 8 • Hab. Tenasserim. VADEBRA LANKANA. Deudorix lankana, Moore, P. Z. S. 1879, p. 141, $ ; Lep. of Ceylon, i. p. 103, pl. 39. fig. 5. Hab. Ceylon. LEHERA, n. g. Artipe\ Boisd. Lep. Guat. p. 14 (1870). Male. Wings large, broad : fore wing triangular ; first subcostal branch emitted at nearly half before end of the cell, second at one fourth, third bifid, emitted from near end of the cell, the fourth at half from below third aud terminating at the apex, fifth from end of the cell; discocellular slightly recurved, radial from the middle; the middle median branch at one fifth before end of the cell, lower at one third 1 Artipus used by Schonherr for Coleoptera, in 1826. |