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Show 394 MR. W. WARREN ON NEW GENERA AND [Apr. 18, Moore, though it certainly looks distinct. The latter species varies considerably, and some of the forms are intermediate between it and A. semilugens. The type was taken in September.-H. J. E,~\ ABRAXAS ALPESTRIS, sp. n. (Plate XXX. fig. 15.) 3. Fore wings straw-yellow, slightly deeper yellow at the extreme base, and paler in the centre ; the whole ground-colour almost obliterated by the density of the fuscous-brown irro rations, which form two darker shades, one indicating the outside edge of the basal patch, the other the ordinary 2nd line ; touching the latter is a large round dark cell-spot; fringe chequered brown and yellowish. Hind wings white, for § from the base, sparsely sprinkled with dark dots, and with a central spot; outer third dusted like the fore wings, and separated from the whiter basal field by a thick dark fuscous curved line. Abdomen fuscous mixed with yellowish. Underside like upper, the dark markings more prominent. Expanse of wings 28 miUim. [Four males of this distinct species were brought from Sunduk-pho, on the Nepal frontier of Sikkim, by one of my native collectors.- H. J. E.~] ABRAXAS NIGRIVENA, sp. n. 3 . Wings shining white, with all the veins delicately traced in black; fore wings with the extreme costa from base to middle black ; extreme base orange, with a single black clot at the base, and 3 on the outside of the orange patch, situated on the subcostal, median, and submedian veins respectively; fringes white, short; top of head and thorax orange; the latter with a small black dot on each side near the base of the wing and (probably) 4 black dots on the top. Abdomen pale yellow, with a dorsal and two lateral rows of black spots, one on each segment; the underside with an elongate black dash on each segment, nearly touching the lateral spots ; antenna? blackish. Underside of wings white; in the fore wing, with the subcostal and discal areas blackish. Expanse of wings 30 millim. Hab. Sikkim ; also in Mr. Moore's collection. [Taken by m e at Tonglo and on the Nepal frontier from 10,000 to 12,000 feet in July.-IT. J. E.~] ABRAXAS TRISERIATA, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 9.) 3 2 • Wings shining white, but with an ochreous tint; iu the 2 , towards the costa and base, dull greyish ; all the veins clearly delineated in black; costa of fore wing narrowly black to beyond the middle; basal patch pale yellow, with a black spot close to the base itself, and the outer edge marked with an irregular, discontinuous black curved line, preceded by a less distinctly expressed similar line in the patch; just beyond the middle a curved blackish shade, and halfway between it and the margin a fine curved line, both parallel to the hind margin ; the outer of the |
