1879.] ASIATIC DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 137 



Vanessa haronica, n. sp. 



Differs from the Indian V. charonia, Drury, in the blue band on the 

 fore wing being continuous and broader. On the hind wing the band 

 crosses the middle, is straight, and has no black spots within it, but 

 has a parallel outer row of small black spots. 



Expanse, S 2f, $ 3 inches. 



Hab. Ceylon. In coll. F. M. Mackwood and F. Moore. 



Adolias annamita, n. sp. 



Differs from A. evelina, Stoll, pL 28. f. 2, in both sexes being 

 more falcated in the fore wing, in having a longitudinal white costal 

 patch immediately before the apex, and in the female having, both 

 above and beneath, the discal space of the fore wing broadly greyish 

 white, sparsely irrorated with green scales, and leaving only a distinct 

 marginal border ; the hind wing also pale-speckled along the discal 

 border of the dark base. 



Expanse, d" 3, $ 3| inches. 



Hab. Cochin China. In coll. H. Druce. 



Nemeobiin.e. 

 Abisara prunosa, n. sp. 



Differs from the Malacca species {A. kausambi, Feld.) in the male 

 having more prominent darker bands on the fore wiug and prominent 

 black spots on the hind wing. The female differs also in its paler 

 colour, and uniformly pale transverse discal bands without any trace 

 of white at their costal end. 



Expanse 1| to 1| inch. 



Hab. Ceylon, In coll. F. Moore. 



Lyc^nidje. 

 Spalgis, n. g. 



Allied to Gerydius (Si/methus, Horsf.). Male with fore wiug more 

 trigonal, the costa straighter, the third subcostal branch bifid, the fifth 

 branch starting from eud of cell : the hiad wing is also more trigonal 

 in male, and the exterior margin is even in both sexes. Antennae 

 short, club thick ish. 



Spalgis epius. 



Lucia epius, Westw. Gen. D. L. p. 502, pi. 76. f. 5. 



Curetis dentata, n. sp. 



Male. Fore wing slightly concave, but not scalloped out on exterior 

 margin ; red patch very broad, with a dentate black mark at (he 

 end of the cell, and its outer border sinuous : hind wing convex and 

 slightly sinuous on its exterior margin, with the red broadly diffused ; 

 outer border narrow ; the basal streak and abdominal border dusky 

 black. 



