388 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May G, 



lunules, which are confluent between the veins and interrupted be- 

 tween the upper median branch and the radial ; the seventh with a 

 dark triangular grey-speckled patch at apical end ; an oblique fascia 

 formed across the wing by the bent end of the fourth band and the 

 outer parallel lunules : hind wing densely black at the base, and 

 black-speckled on the disk, with a distinct transverse narrow sinuous 

 band ; abdominal border pale ochreous. Abdomen paler cinnamon 

 colour. Thorax and top of head with a longitudinal dusky streak ; 

 front of head black; shaft of antennae pink. Legs pink ; tibiae black 

 at sides ; hind tibiae with a white streak above ; spurs white. Un- 

 derside paler-coloured, with three or four median transverse indistinct 

 dusky sinuous bands : fore wing with a broad black streak from base 

 below the cell, and a narrow oblique apical line. 



Expanse 4 5 inches. 



Hab. N. China. In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Nearest allied to C. bilineata (Basiana bilineata, Walk.), from 

 N.E. Bengal, from which it differs above in being of an entirely dif- 

 ferent colour and markings. 



Ambulyx atjripennis, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside — -fore wing golden-brown, palest at the base 

 and greenish-tinted externally ; a small pale-bordered dark sap-brown 

 spot at the base, and a larger spot below the cell ; a pale sap-brown 

 narrow band recurving from apex to posterior angle ; four equidistant 

 short, oblique, indistinct costal streaks, and two less distinct trans- 

 verse discal sinuous lines : hind wing dark ochreous, anterior border 

 yellowish, crossed by three short blackish sinuous fasciae, the base 

 of wing also blackish. Body ochreous-brown, pink-tinted ; a frontal 

 band, broad lateral band on thorax, and a narrow dorsal line sap- 

 brown. Palpi, pectus, and anal segments beneath ferruginous. Un- 

 derside yellowish ferruginous ; disk brown-speckled ; a grey marginal 

 band on fore wing. 



Expanse 3 inches. 



Hab. Ceylon {Sir W. H. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum. 



Nearest allied to A. rhodoptera, Butler, from Darjiling. 



Triptogon rectilinea, n. sp. 



Male. Nearest allied to T.fuscescens, Butler, Trans. Z. S. ix.p. 587, 

 pi. 93. f. 2, but of smaller size. Fore wing deeper-coloured, the trans- 

 verse lines blacker, there being four in the subbasal series, which are 

 erect and not curved outwards ; the discal pair are both angled 

 at the middle ; and the outer pair are close together and parallel 

 throughout their length : hind wing of a brighter chestnut colour, 

 with a smaller greyish anal area, and with a continuous dark streak ; 

 middle of thorax and a posterior band dark chestnut. 



Expanse 2f inches. 



Hab. N. India. In coll. Dublin Museum. 



