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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 341 the apex; with a very indistinct recurved discal transverse series of small black spots and outer recurved speckled fascia; a few indistinct black spots on cilia just below the apex : hind wing pale straw-yellow. Underside uniformly paler ochreous. Body pale yellowish ochreous ; front and middle legs brighter ochreous. Expanse l| inch. Hab. Penang. In coll. F. Moore. Genus AXYLIA, Hiibner. AXYLIA RENALIS, n. Sp. Fore wing pale reddish-ochreous, with the costal border iron-grey ; orbicular and reniform spot very prominent, black-lined, and centred with iron-grey ; veins speckled with grey and black; a black fascia extending through the cell to outer margin; a black subbasal transverse sinuous double line, some discal spots, and a marginal row of dentate spots : hind wing pale brownish white, darker along costal border. Thorax black above, ochreous laterally and in front; abdomen pale brown; palpi black, tipped with ochreous; legs black, fore and middle tibiae ochreous. Expanse ly^inch. Hab. Sind valley, Kashmir; Solun, Punjab. In coll. F. Moore. Allied to the European A.putris. AXYLIA FASCIATA, n. sp. Fore wing pale yellowish ochreous, with a longitudinal blackish fascia through the lower part of the cell to outer margin, the area below it being slightly greyish ; a black streak below the cell; median veins grey-speckled, the second upper median branch white with black intervening lines; discal area above the fascia and the posterior margin suffused with reddish ochreous, and white below the fascia; orbicular and reniform spots formed of interrupted black lines, with an almost confluent black interspace; some indistinct black dots obliquely across the disk: hind wing ochreous-white, outer border slightly dusky, marginal line black. Expanse ly^-inch. Hab. Solun, Punjab ; Ceylon. In coll. F. Moore. AXYLIA IRRORATA, n. sp. Fore wing pale yellowish ochreous, profusely black-speckled, most thickly and somewhat confluent through the lower end of the cell to the exterior margin; orbicular and reniform spot imperfectly formed of black speckles, with an intervening black spot; an indistinct discal row of blackish speckles and marginal series of dots: hind wing white, with brownish border and marginal dots. Body, palpi, and legs pale ochreous ; thorax and palpi black-speckled. Expanse ly\, inch. Hab. N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. |