524 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC LEPIDOPTERA. [NoV. 20, 



Cyaniris ALBiDiscA, 11. sp. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 7.) 



Allied to C. puspa. Male. Fore wiiig dark blue, with a narrow 

 black marginal band decreasing to a point at posterior angle ; hind 

 wing with a narrow black, slightly macular, marginal band. Both 

 wings with a prominent white discal patch. Underside white, with 

 similarly disposed but more slender and less prominent markings 

 than those in 0. puspa. 



Ex])anse If inch. 



Hab. Nilgiris, S. India. In coll. F. Moore. 



Cyaniris jynteana, n. sp. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 10.) 



Near 0. puspa. Male. Fore wing comparatively shorter, the 

 blue less intense and slightly paler ; the discal area slightly white- 

 speckled ; with a blackish outer marginal band of one twelfth inch 

 in width : hind wing with a narrow macular marginal band. Under- 

 side greyish white : fore wing with a slender indistinct dusky-black 

 discocellular streak, four transverse discal, outwardly oblique, short 

 linear spots, a small costal spot, a submarginal and marginal row of 

 lunular spots : hind wing with three small black subbasal spots, an 

 irregular discal transverse series of nine spots, an indistinct sub- 

 marginal and marginal row of dentate lunular spots. 



Expanse 1^ to \f inch. 



Hab. Khasia and Jyntea hills {Austen). In coll. F. Moore. 



Cyaniris sikkima, n. sp. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 11.) 



Allied to C. Jynteana. Fore wing shorter ; hind wing also shorter 

 and comparatively broader; the marginal blackish band on both 

 wings broader ; fore wing with a slender blackish discocellular 

 streak. Underside similarly marked, the discal oblique spots being 

 shorter, and the submarginal dentate lunules broader on both wings. 



Expanse 1^^ inch. 



Hab. Darjihng. In coll. F. Moore. 



Niphanda plinioides, n. sp. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 8.) 



Male and Female. Upperside violaceous-brown, with a very faint 

 shade of violet-blue in some lights : fore wing with the discal inter- 

 spaces between the veins whitish-brown, palest in the male, and 

 traversed by an indistinct darker transverse discal fascia ; a mar- 

 ginal row of black spots : hind wing with a marginal row of whitish- 

 bordered black spots, of which the second and third from anal angle 

 are the largest, and two parallel discal curved rows of small whitish 

 spots ; cilia alternated with whitish. Underside dirty white : fore 

 wing with a blackish-brown slender streak ascending half length of 

 upper base of the cell, a curved streak from below its base to middle 

 of the cell, and a lunular spot at its end ; an interrupted discal 

 macular band, the upper part with a broad outer fascia, and a sub- 

 marginal and a marginal lunular band ; the latter with two blackish 

 spots on its middle : hind wing with a blackish-brown spot at base 

 of the cell, three subbasal spots, one on middle of abdominal 

 margin, and two large spots on costal border, a smaller spot below 



