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Show 1881.] NOCTURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 367 CURUBASA CRUENTATA, n. sp. Male and Female. Fore wing pale silky yellow, with a purplish-pink costal band extending only to the subcostal vein, a similar but broader and darker band along the posterior margin ; cilia yellow, edged with pale pink : hind wing paler yellow. Thorax and front of head ochreous-brown ; abdomen yellow ; palpi and legs above reddish ochreous; terminal spines on fore tibia black. Expanse, 3 1, $ If inch. HaB. N.W. India; Noashera, Cashmir. In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. CURUBASA CALAMARIA, n. sp. Male. Very pale straw-yellow; fore wing with a very indistinct longitudinal roseate streak through the median vein. Underside as above ; basal and discal areas, including the costa of fore wing, greyish brown. Thorax, front of head, palpi, and legs above brownish ochreous ; spines on fore tibia black. Expanse y9^- inch. HaB. Bombay {Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. CURUBASA MARGINATA, n.sp. Male. Somewhat paler than C. calamaria. Fore wing with an ochreous-grey band along posterior margin : hind wing with the basal area slightly greyish brown. Underside of fore wing with the basal and discal areas greyish brown, costal border pale yellow. Front of head, palpi, and legs above purplish grey; fore tibial claws black. Expanse 1 inch. HaB. N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. ADISURA, n. g. Fore wing comparatively short and broad, triangular, costa nearly straight, apex very acute, exterior margin oblique and even, posterior margin short ; first subcostal branch emitted from half length of the cell, second near the end, trifurcate, the third and fourth at equal distances from base of second, fifth curved upward from end of the cell and touching the third close to its base ; discocellular concave, slightly bent near its lower end; upper radial from end of the cell, lower from angle of discocellular ; upper median branch from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from the end, lower at some distance before its end. Hind wing triangular, rather broad and short; costa nearly straight, exterior margin convex and much waved, abdominal margin short; two subcostal branches emitted from end of the cell; discocellular very slender, slightly concave ; radial extremely slender, emitted from middle of discocellular; two upper median branches from slightly beyond end of the cell, lower from one third before its end. Body short, stout; palpi stout, laxly squamose, apical joint thick, short; legs laxly pilose ; antennae minutely pectinated in male. Type A. atkinsoni. |