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Show 1874.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 575 DIPSAS ICANA. (Plate LXVII. fig. 3.) Male. Upperside dark brown • fore wing with the interior portion purplish green, metallic only in certain lights, and traversed by the dark brown veins : hind wing slightly sprinkled with metallic green scales. Underside pale sap-brown : fore wing with a dark brown broad spot at end of the cell; a transverse discal band decreasing in width and terminating one third from the posterior angle, being bordered outwardly by a narrow pale line ; a narrow paler brown submarginal fascia and outer border : hind wing with a dark brown broad median transverse band including a discocellular spot, the band pale-bordered on both sides and terminating above anal angle in a zigzag line; a paler brown lunular submarginal fascia and outer band; a black-bordered orange patch at anal angle containing two black spots joined by a blue streak. Exp. 1T 4 ¥ inch. Hab. N.W. Himalaya (Dr. Bayne Reed). In Coll. F. Moore and Netley-Hospital Museum. Fam. PAPILIONIDJE. PAPILIO LIOMEDON. Upperside fuliginous black : fore wing with a submarginal linear series of circular pale yellow spots, which decrease in size to the apex: hind wing with a rather broad pale yellow median transverse band, a submarginal series of four yellow lunules and a fifth orange-yellow lunule enclosing a black spot at anal angle ; indentations of wing each with a narrow yellow lunule. Underside fuliginous brown, greyish at the base; the submarginal series of spots and median band as above, the fore wing having four narrow greyish-white longitudinal lines within the cell: hind wing with the disk beyond the band dusky yellow ; the outer margin of the wing and tail bordered with black ; between each vein and touching the median band is a lengthened black spot, the central ones conical, the two upper quadrate, and the one at the anal margin broken, its lower part forming a round spot, each of these spots is crossed by a row of pale purple speckles ; the yellow space at the anterior and anal angles tinged with orange. Exp. 3| inches. Hab. Calicut, Malabar coast of S. India (S. N. Ward). Allied to P. demotion, of which it is the South-Indian form, differing from that species in the linear series of spots on the fore wing being smaller and placed nearer the margin, the median band of the hind wing narrower and further from the base, with its outer margin beyond the cell. Fam. HESPERID^E. ISMENE M A H I N T H A . (Plate LXVII. fig. 4.) Upperside dark glossy olive-brown ; base of fore wing and middle of the hind wing with abdominal margin densely clothed with long |