18/4.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 575 



Dipsas icana. (Plate LXVII. fig. 3.) 



Male. Upperside dark brown : fore wing with the interior por- 

 tion 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 baud 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. lj 4 ^ inch. 



Hab. N.W. Himalaya {Dr. Bayne Reed). In Coll. F. Moore 

 and Netley-Hospital Museum. 



Fam. Papilionid^e. 



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 mar- 

 gin 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;j inches. 



Hab. Calicut, Malabar coast of S. India {S. N. Ward). 



Allied to P. demolion, 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. HesperidjE. 

 Ismene mahintha. (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 Ion" 



