578 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [Nov. 3, 



found during July flying heavily amongst high horse-chestnut trees 

 (Pavia indica), just as P. eucharis might about a mango-grove. 



Epicopeia mencia. (Plate LXVII. fig. 8.) 



Male. Dark fuliginous black ; veins black : hind wing short, with 

 a long broad spatulate tail ; a series of five crimson lunules trans- 

 versely from anal angle straight across to outer margin ; three similar 

 lunules on posterior margin. Two crimson spots on thorax. Abdo- 

 men with crimson bands and lateral stripes. 



Exp. 3^ inches. 



Hab. Shanghai, N. China. In Coll. F. Moore. 



Note. — " Full-grown larva 2\ inches long, perfectly white, and 

 profusely covered with fine white powder, which comes off from the 

 body at the slightest touch of the hand, leaving the dark skin under- 

 neath. Found in October ; changed to a pupa same month. Col- 

 lects two or three leaves together, and forms a kind of envelope of 

 the powder. Imago makes its appearance in June of following year." 

 — E. Holdsworth. 



Fam. Saturnidjs. 



Anther^ea conftjci. 



Male. Greenish buff colour : fore wing with the base of costal 

 margin purple-grey, and two short subbasal pinkish transverse 

 lines, and two outer submarginal, transverse, parallel, pinkish lines ; 

 a dusky fascia from costato hind margin passing outside the ocellus; 

 ocelli of both wings small, oval, grey within, outer ring pink inter- 

 nally and black externally ; inner ring white and yellow ; central 

 spot miuute, half diaphanous, and yellow : hind wing with fainter 

 pinkish subbasal line and two submarginal lines. 



Exp. 5| inches. 



Hab. Hills in neighbourhood of Shanghai, N. China. In Coll. 

 E. Holdsworth. 



Allied to A. pernyi, from which it differs in colour and in the 

 distinct double submarginal lines. 



NOCTUES. 



Fam. Noctuid^e. 



EUPLEXIA CUPREA, n. Sp. 



Male and female. Upperside cupreous brown: fore wing with a 

 broad transverse median black band enclosing a dull-coloured orbi- 

 cular spot and a yellow-bordered pale brown reniform spot ; some 

 blackish pale-bordered transverse streaks at base of wing and across 

 exterior margin ; four small yellow dots on costal margin near the 

 apex : hind wing fawn-colour at base ; a pale wavy submarginal line 

 from anal angle. Underside paler ; fore wing with a pale yellowish 

 streak enclosing a small blackish spot at end of the cell ; costal spots 

 near apex, and wavy submarginal line ; a prominent black spot on 

 middle of hind wing. 



Exp. l^inch. 



Hab. Simla, N.W. Himalaya. In Coll. F. Moore. 



