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Show 366 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [Mar. 1, PRADATTA ARTAXOIDES, n. sp. Male and Female. Fore wing uniformly ochreous-yellow ; hind wing brownish-ochreous, darkest externally ; cilia yellow. Underside paler ; basal and discal area of fore wing brownish ochreous. Tip and side of palpi and fore legs above brownish. Expanse, 3 yV ? 1 inch. HaB. N.W. Himalaya; Cashmir. In coll. F. Moore. PRADATTA MODESTA, n. sp. Female. Fore wing pale ochreous-yellow; hind wing ochreous-white. Underside of fore wing with a greyish-brown discocellular patch. Body, palpi, and legs pale ochreous-yellow; fore tibial claws black. Expanse y^j inch. HaB. Manpuri, N.W. India (Home). In coll. F. Moore. CURUBASA, n. g. Male and Female. Fore wing elongated, narrow, costa arched at the base, apex somewhat acute; exterior margin oblique, even, slightly convex bindward and at the angle ; cell long; costal vein recurved towards its end ; first subcostal branch emitted beyond half length of the cell, second immediately before end of the cell, trifid, the third and fourth at one third from its base ; fifth from end of the cell, ascending and touching the second close to end of the third ; discocellular bent near upper and lower end, slender, concave in middle, radials from the angles; upper median branch from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from the end, lower at one fourth before the end. Hind wing broad, apex convex, exterior margin waved ; two subcostal branches emitted from end of the cell; discocellular slender, bent in the middle, radial from the middle; cell short; two upper median branches from end of the cell. Body moderately stout; palpi short, slender, porrect; femora and tibiae slightly pilose above; fore tibia short, thick, and armed with two termiual black spines; antennae filiform. Type C. lanceolata. CURUBASA LANCEOLATA. Alaria lanceolata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 767 (1865). Fore wing pale silky-yellow, with a purplish-pink costal band which extends halfway across and through the cell to below the apex ; a similar band above the posterior border : hind wing whitish ; thorax, head, palpi, arid legs above purplish pink; terminal spines on fore tibia black ; abdomen yellow. Expanse 1 ^ inch. HaB. Nilgiris (S. India). In coll. British Museum and F. Moore. |