1883.] MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. 21 



hind wing pale brown ; cilia edged with cinereous white. Female 

 paler coloured, marked as in male. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs 

 above dark reddish-ochreous ; tarsi with pale bands, tibial tuft in 

 female white externally. 



Expanse, S lyu, ? 1 ycr i"ch. 



Hab. Ceylon (Mackwood); Calcutta and DarjiUng {AtJdnson), 

 In coll. F. Moore. 



RUSICADA DIVERSALIS, n. Sp. 



Male. Fore wing purplish reddish-ochreous, of a uniform tint 

 throughout the wing ; crossed by a very indistinct darker waved 

 antemedial line, and a shghtly more distinct grey-bordered lunular 

 postmedial zigzag hue, beyond which is a distinct submarginal series 

 of black-pointed spots ; minute pale orbicular and reniform dots 

 very indistinct ; cilia edged with black ; hind wing dusky brown, 

 darkest along the outer border ; ciha reddish-ochreous, edged with 

 paler ochreous. Thorax, head, palpi and legs above reddish- 

 ochreous ; tarsi with pale bauds ; autenase very minutely pectinated. 



Expanse ly^ inch. 



Hab. Singapore. In coll. F. Moore. 



Allied to Gonitis brunnea, which has similar markings on fore 

 wing, but the antennae are deeply pectinated. 



Gonitis metaxantha. 



Gonitis metaxantha, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. 

 p. 1005 (1857). 



Fore wing ochreous-red, numerously covered with ochreous-yellow 

 scales ; crossed by a deeper red angular antemedial and a zigzag 

 discaUine, and a 'pale-bordered dusky submarginal zigzag fascia; 

 veins externally grey-speckled ; a yellowish blotch bordering the 

 medial line below the cell, this blotch being less distinct in the 

 female ; a very minute grey-white orbicular dot, and an indistinct 

 dusky-grey reniform mark, the upper part of the latter being 

 nearly obsolete : hind wing dusky ochreous-brown. Cilia edged with 

 ochreous-white. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs ochreous-red ; abdo- 

 men brown. 



Expanse 1| to If inch. 



Hab. Cherra Punji ; DarjiUng {Atkinson). 



Gonitis trilineata, n. sp. (Plate VI. fig. 1 .) 

 Fore wing purplish red, numerously covered with minute whitish- 

 ochreous scales, which are most dense along the costal border ; 

 crossed by a whitish ochreous outwardly-oblique basal line, a sub- 

 basal narrower, nearly straight line, and a medial line, which is curved 

 outward from below end of the cell and then ascends the disk to the 

 costa, being also angled on the upper median and lower subcostal 

 veins ; a less distinct submarginal lunular zigzag line ; a pale disco- 

 cellular line from angle of medial transverse line ; a very small 

 white orbicular spot ; cilia red ; veins externally lined with ochreous 



