1879.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 401 



PlDA ALBODENTATA, n. Sp. * 



Female. Upperside dull oclireous-white : fore wing minutely brown- 

 speckled ; a broad, transverse, median, ochreous-brown speckled band 

 crossed by pale veins ; a row of white dentate spots along outer 

 margin. Underside paler, without markings. 



Expanse I-| inch. 



Hab. N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. 



Redoa cygna, n. sp. 



Male and Female. Wings silky white, covered with minute silvery 

 scales : fore wing with a small black spot at end of the cell. Bodv 

 and legs white. Front of head, tip of palpi, and legs spotted with 

 dark brown. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hab. N.E. Bengal {A. Grote). In coll. F. Moore, 



Caltura, n. g. * 



Wings broad : fore wing trigonal, elongated in female ; costa 

 arched at base, apex rounded, exterior margin oblique ; first branch 

 of subcostal vein starting from some distance before the end of the 

 cell, second quadrifid, fifth or lowest being nearest the cell ; disco- 

 cellulars bent in the middle, upper angled ; radial from angle of 

 upper discocellular ; median vein four-branched, two upper from 

 angles at end of the cell : hind wing broad, apex and exterior margin 

 very convex ; subcostal two-branched from angle at end of the cell ; 

 upper discocellular short, lower long and very oblique ; median vein 

 as in fore wing. Body moderate ; abdomen as long as hind wing. 

 Palpi pilose, porrect. Legs covered with short spinous hairs. An- 

 tennae bipectinate. 



Caltura alba, n. sp. 



Male and Female. White, semidiaphanous, covered with raised 

 white scales : fore wing with two transverse black lines, the first sub- 

 basal and zigzag, the other discal, oblique, and bent near the costa ; 

 a short, oblique, discocellular black streak ; both wings with a mar- 

 ginal row of small black spots. Thorax black-spotted ; abdomen in 

 male with dorsal and lateral row of black spots. Legs hoary above. 



Expanse <S If, $ 2f inches. 



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



Daskchira rausalia, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside pale brownish grey : fore wing minutely irro- 

 rated with black scales, crossed by indistinct basal, discal, and mar- 

 ginal sinuous dusky lines ; a lunule at end of the cell : hind wing 

 pale greyish brown, yellowish on abdominal margin ; cilia whitish ; 

 an indistinct dusky spot at end of the cell. Underside paler ; both 

 wings with a dusky brown, broad, dentate streak at end of the cell, 

 and a transverse, discal, indistinct fascia. 



Expanse 1± inch. 



Hab. Kussowlee, N.W. Himalaya. In coll. F. Moore. 

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