404 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [May 6, 



Stauropus albescens, n. sp. 



Greyish white ; fore wing, and hind wing along anterior border, 

 minutely brown-speckled : fore wing with very indistinct, median, 

 transverse, sinuous bands, and a submarginal series of ochreous-brown 

 spots. Abdomen with a dorsal series of blackish-speckled tufts. 

 Underside white. Palpi and legs brown-streaked. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Hab. Mangalore, S. India (Ward). In coll. F. Moore. 



Stauropus indictjs, n. sp. 



Upperside pale ochreous-grey ; cilia alternated with brown : fore 

 wing with the basal half and costal border densely clouded with dark 

 brown scales indistinctly disposed in confluent sinuous bands ; apical 

 half sparsely brown-speckled ; a submarginal oblique row of brown 

 pale-speckled points : hind wing with the anterior border and apex 

 broadly brown-speckled, indistinctly disposed in sinuous bands ; ab- 

 dominal border sparsely speckled ; a brown-speckled marginal line 

 and pale lunular spaces. Body greyish brown, tip ochreous-grey. 

 Underside paler, without speckles. Front of head and palpi dark 

 brown. Antennae brown, shaft grey. 



Expanse 1-| inch. 



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



Stauropus virescens, n. sp. 



Male. Upperside — -fore wing pale green, with two equidistant, 

 transverse, median, brown-speckled sinuous lines, the outer double 

 and pale grey-bordered ; an indistinct row of submarginal, pale, 

 grey-bordered, brown-speckled spots, and a more prominent row of 

 marginal brown spots ; cilia whitish : hind wing with the costal 

 border green, and crossed by brown wavy streaks, the rest of the 

 wing pale brown. Front of head and thorax green ; abdomen pale 

 brown, tipped with pale green. Antennas brown, shaft grey. Un- 

 derside pale greenish grey. Fore and mid legs green and brown- 

 speckled above, grey beneath ; mid legs greeuish grey. Palpi 

 ochreous-grey, dark brown at the side. 



Expanse 1^% inch. 



Hab. Darjiling (A. Grote). In coll. F. Moore. 



Stauropus vinaceus, n. sp. (Plate XXXIII. fig. I.) 



Upperside — -fore wing vinous-brown, irrorated with grey scales ; 

 base obliquely grey, and bordered by a narrow black line ; a submar- 

 ginal indistinct black sinuous line, and an outer marginal series of 

 short, black, grey-bordered zigzag streaks: an indistinct pale vinous 

 longitudinal fascia above the hind margin, a similar one from below 

 end of the cell, and a shorter one before the apex : hind winy brown. 

 Abdomen greyish brown. Thorax brown, speckled with grey hind- 

 ward. Underside pale rufous-brown, greyish along hind margins. 

 Palpi and legs black-speckled. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Hab. India. In coll. F. Moore. 



