526 MR. F. MOORE ON NKW ASIATIC LEPIDOITERA. [NoV. 20, 



IlERDA LANGIl, n. sp. 



Near to I. moorei. Both wiugs with the metallic area of the same 

 exteut aud shape as in that species, the metallic colour being of a 

 greenish tint of nearly the same iutenseness as that in I. androcles. 

 On the hind wing the marginal red band is composed of four or five 

 broad continuous luuules. In both the former named species the 

 marginal band is composed of only two lunules. Underside of a 

 much darker yellow than in the former species. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



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



Aphn^us abnormis, u. sp. (Plate XLIX. fig. 4.) 



Male. Fore wing dusky violet-brown ; basal area from below the 

 costal vein dull greenish-grey, or in certain lights pale blue : hind 

 wing of the same dull greenish-grey or light blue ; the marginal line 

 brown ; anal lobe dull ochreous-browu. Underside dull ochreous- 

 brown ; fore wing with three indistinctly defined oblique, transverse, 

 very slightly silvered bands and submargiual line : hind wing with 

 a similar medial transverse band and less distinct submargiual band. 



Expanse 1 \ inch. 



Hab. Coonoor, Nilgiris (^Lindsay). In coll. F. Moore. 



Genus Sithon. 



Sithoti, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 77 (1816). 



Fore wing with the costa slightly arched at the base, apex acute, 

 exterior margin very slightly convex, posterior angle not acute, pos- 

 terior margin slightly convex, tuited beneath ; costal vein recurved ; 

 first subcostal branch ascending and touching costal near its end, 

 emitted at one third before end of the cell, second branch at one 

 fifth, third aud fourth from end of the cell, no fifth branch ; cell 

 broad ; discocellulars slightly concave, of equal length ; radial from 

 their middle ; middle median from close to end of the cell, lower at 

 one third before the end ; submediau straight. Hind wing oval ; 

 costa almost angular in its middle, apex convex, exterior margin lobular 

 near anal angle ; cell short, triangular ; first subcostal emitted at one 

 thiid before end of the cell ; discocellulars oblique, recurved ; radial 

 from their middle ; two median branches from end of the cell, 

 lower at one half before the end, submedian straight, internal re- 

 curved ; furnished vrith a longish slender tail from end of lower 

 median vein, and a short lobate tail from submedian vein. Anteunal 

 club slender ; palpi poi rect, laxy squauiose beneath, second joint 

 extending half beyond the head, third joint slender; legs squauiose. 



Type ^'. nedymond. Cram. 



SlTHON NEDYMOND. 



Papilio 7iedymond, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 299. f. E, F (1782). 

 Thecla nedymond, Horsfield, Catal. Lep. Mus. E.I. C. j). 96 

 (1829). 



