1879.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 411 



men reddish ; antennae grey. Underside uniform brownish fawn- 

 colour. 



Expanse 3f inches. 



Hab. Ceylon (Sir W. Gregory). In coll. Dublin Museum and 

 F. Moore. 



Distinguished from S. bimaculata, which is also found in Ceylon, 

 in being a third less in size and of a very much darker colour. The 

 larva, of which drawings of both species are before me, is also diffe- 

 rently marked from that of S. bimaculata. 



Brachylia, Felder. 

 Brachylia, Felder, Nov. Voy. Lep. v. pi. 82. f. 7. 



Brachylia acronyctoides, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 4.) 



Male and Female. Upperside — -fore wing greyish-brown, greyest 

 at the apex, crossed externally by black wavy, partly interrupted re- 

 ticulatious, some of which are disposed in an outwardly oblique line 

 across the disk : hind wing pale greyish brown, indistinctly marked 

 with black reticulations. Underside fuliginous brown, reticulations 

 somewhat confluent and darkest in male ; abdomen greyish brown, 

 paler beneath, and with pale bands above ; antennae dark brown. 



Expanse 1^ to If inch. 



Hab. Bombay (Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. 



Arbela, n. g. 



Fore wing elongated ; costa nearly straight, exterior margin oblique 

 and slightly convex ; posterior margin convex at base ; third sub- 

 costal vein trifid, first fork ascending at one third beyond end of the 

 cell, second from one third before the apex : hind wing short, exte- 

 rior margin very convex. Antennae short, closely bipectinate ; 

 head small, palpi minute ; body slender, hairy ; abdomen extending 

 one third beyond hind wing, with short dorsal lax tufts and longer 

 anal tuft ; legs hairy on one side. 



Arbela tetraonis, n. sp. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 3.) 



Allied to A. quadrinotata, "Walk. 



Male. Upperside pale greyish ochreous : fore wing crossed by 

 numerous compact dark-brown maculated bands, spot at end of the 

 cell black : hind wing sparsely crossed by brown strigae ; cilia alter- 

 nate pale and dark brown. Body greyish brown, interspersed with 

 dark brown tufts. Antennae and legs pale ochrey-brown. Underside 

 greyish white, with the markings less prominent. 



Expanse lg inch. 



Hab. Bombay (Dr. Leith). In coll. F. Moore. 



Arbela tessellata. 



Cossus tessellatus, Moore, Asiat. Soc. Beng. Desc. Lep. Atk. Coll. 

 p. 85 (1878). 

 Hab. Calcutta. 



