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Show 372 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [M pale ochreous discocellular lunule: hind wing with a transverse median brown fascia, joined by a discal ochreous band, with outer marginal broad brown band. Body, palpi, and legs above ochreous, speckled with brown. Expanse 1 inch. Hab. Bombay (Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. Allied to A. vetustalis (Docela vetustalis), Walk. /. c. p. 1258. ACANTHOLIPES NIGRISIGNA, n. sp. Female. Grey : fore wing with a dark-brown median oblique fascia, the outer border of which is almost straight; the discal ochreous line evenly curved, with dark-brown outer irregular border ; discocellular lunule black : hind wing with median transverse brown fascia, ochreous discal line, and brown outer border. Body, palpi, and legs above greyish. Expanse 1 inch. Hab. Bombay {Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. ACANTHOLIPES HYPENOIDES, n. sp. * Male and Female. Upperside-fore wing greyish ochreous-brown, numerously covered with dark-brown speckles, with a transverse lower discal blackish-brown band, which is broadest in the female, bordered outwardly by a slender yellowish line indistinctly angled at its upper end and bent inward to the costa; a dark-brown waved fascia below the apex; the outer margin with a pale line below the apex, and some pale speckles at end of the costa: hind wing pale ochreous-brown. Underside pale ochreous-brown ; both wings slightly speckled with darker brown along the costal border; hind wing with indistinct transverse brown-speckled line. Body, palpi, and legs above greyish brown. Expanse y9^ to 1 inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Fam. ERASTRIID^;. Genus ERASTRIA, Ochs. E R A S T R I A PALLIDISCA, n. sp. (Plate X X X V I I . fig. 14.) Male and Female. Smaller than E. albiorbis : fore wing paler ferruginous- brown, the transverse markings smaller, with the median area brownish white and irregularly speckled hindward ; the orbicular and reniform spots indistinct, smaller, and of the same colour as the discal area. Expanse 1 inch, Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. ERASTRIA MARGINATA, n. sp. (Plate XXXVII. fig. 21.) Fore wing dark greyish ferruginous-brown, with a broad pale ferruginous band along the hind margin, and extending two thirds up the outer margin, where it is slightly whitish and black-streaked; an indistinct whitish discal transverse sinuous line; orbicular and |