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Show 378 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [Mar. 1, PHYCODES TORTRICINA, n. sp. Fore wing dark cupreous-brown, with a blackish patch on posterior margin towards the base, an indistinct blackish patch on the discal area: hind wing darker, with less-defined yellow basal streak than in P. hirundinicornis. Underside more uniformly coloured, no yellowish streaks on the discal areas. Expanse -f^ inch. Hab. Canara, S. India (Ward). In coll. F. Moore. PHYCODES QUIRIS. Atychia quiris, Felder and Rogenh. Novara Voy. iv. pi. 139. f. 36 (1875). Hab. S. Africa (Trimen). PHYCODES MINOR, n. sp. Fore wing cupreous-grey, with a slender cupreous-brown median transverse band : hind wing greyish cupreous ; cilia white. Underside uniformly brown. Body cupreous-grey ; second joint of palpi white, third joint black ; legs cupreous-brown above, femora beneath and bands above white. Expanse -f^ inch. Hab. N.W. India; Caragola, Bengal (Atkinson). In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. PHYCODES MACULATA, n. sp. Fore wing cupreous-black, very indistinctly speckled with minute grey scales, with several golden-yellow spots on the basal and median areas, and longitudinal streaks on the exterior border: hind wing with a pale'yellow linear streak from the base, a slender streak above the anal angle, and three spots on the upper part of the disk; cilia pale cinereous-yellow. Body cupreous-black, abdomen with slight yellow segmental bands ; palpi black above, pure white at the side ; legs black, femora golden yellow beneath, tarsi with yellow bands ; antennae black. Expanse ly^ inch. Hab. Darjiling. In coll. F. Moore and Dr. Staudinger. Tribe PYRALES. AGASTYA, n. g. Fore wing very short, broad ; costal margin very convex at the base in male, slightly arched in female ; apex acute ; exterior margin slightly oblique ; first subcostal branch emitted at one half before end of the cell, second very close to the end, third from the end, bifid, the fourth thrown off near the apex, fifth from angle below end of the cell; discocellular outwardly oblique, bent near the upper and lower end, concave in the middle, radials from the angles ; upper median branch from end of the cell, middle branch from near its end, lower at one third before the end; cell broad, longest at its lower end ; submedian straight. Hind wing very broad, short, apex |
