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Show 376 MR. F. MOORE ON N E W ASIATIC [Mar. 1, Genus VARNIA, Walker. V A R N I A F E N E S T R A T A , n. sp. Deep dull chocolate-red, washed with chalybeate-grey, marked with very indistinct blackish confluent strigae ; fore wing with transverse very indistinct black lines, those on the basal half waved, the discal and subapical line being oblique, straight, and joined together on the costa, the interdiscal space bordering these two lines brighter red; some pale yellow spots on the costal edge : hind wing with a large, irregular, quadrate semidiaphanous white discocellular spot, and some contiguous pale yellow streaks. Body with red dorsal streaks ; palpi black laterally. Expanse ly^- inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Fam. PLUSIID^E. Genus E U C H A L C I A , Hiibner. EUCHALC1A CASHMIRENSIS, n. Sp. Fore wing brownish olive-green, with a transverse olive-white basal line, an antemedian line curving below the cell, an undulated post-median line, and two submarginal lines; orbicular and reniform marks formed by a similar olive-white line; the outer border of the pale lines tinged with cupreous-brown : hind wing pale purplish brown ; cilia ochreous. Thorax brownish olive ; abdomen ochreous, dorsal tufts bright ochreous; palpi and legs pale ochreous ; tarsi and antennae brighter ochreous. Expanse 1-| inch. Hab. Sind valley, Cashmir. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. Allied to E. uralensis and E. modesta. Fam. CALPID.E. CULASTA, n. g. Fore wing elongate; costa nearly straight; apex acute; exterior margin convex towards the posterior angle, posterior margin very convex near the base; first subcostal branch emitted at nearly one half before end of the cell, second at one fifth, third from near base of second, and fourth from near the apex; fifth from end of the cell, ascending to, but not touching, the third near its base ; discocellular bent near each end, concave and very slender in the middle, radials from the angles; cell long, extending more than half length of the wing ; upper median branch from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from its end, lower at one third before the end ; submedian recurved. Hind wing somewhat short and broad, exterior margin waved, convex ; costal vein nearly straight ; two subcostal branches from end of the cell; discocellular bent inward in the middle, radial from its lower end; cell broad, short; two upper median branches emitted from angle at end of the cell, lower at one fourth before its end; submedian and internal vein slightly curved. Body stout, |