366 MR. r. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [Mar. 1, 



Pradatta artaxoi'des, n. sp. 



Male and Female. Fore wing uniformly ochreous-yellow ; hind 

 wing brownish-ochreous, darkest externally ; cilia yellow. Under- 

 side paler ; basal and discal area of fore wing brownish ochreous. 

 Tip and side of palpi and fore legs above brownish. 



Expanse, S to, $ 1 inch. 



Hub. N.W. Himalaya ; Cashmir. In coll. F. Moore. 



Pradatta modesta, n. sp. 



Female. Fore wing pale ochreous-yellow ; hind wing ochreous- 

 white. Underside of fore wing with a greyish-brown discocellular 

 patch. Body, palpi, and legs pale ochreous-yellow ; fore tibial 

 claws black. 



Expanse ^ inch. 



Hab. Manpuri, N.W. India {Home). In coll. F. Moore. 



CuRUBASA, n. g. 



Male and Female. Fore wing elongated, narrow, costa arched at 

 the base, apex somewhat acute ; exterior margin oblique, even, 

 slightly convex hindward and at the angle ; cell long ; costal vein 

 recurved towards its end ; first subcostal branch emitted beyond 

 half length of the cell, second immediately before end of the cell, 

 trifid, the third and fourth at one third from its base ; fifth from 

 end of the cell, ascending and touching the second close to end of 

 the third ; discocellular bent near upper and lower end, slender, 

 concave in middle, radials from the angles ; upper median branch 

 from angle above end of the cell, middle branch from the end, lower 

 at one fourth before the end. Hind wing broad, apex convex, exterior 

 margin waved ; two subcostal branches emitted from end of the cell ; 

 discocellular slender, bent in the middle, radial from the middle ; 

 cell short ; two upper median branches from end of the cell. Body 

 moderately stout ; palpi short, slender, porrect ; femora and tibiae 

 slightly pilose above ; fore tibia short, thick, and armed with two 

 terminal black spines ; antennas filiform. 



Type C. lanceolata. 



CURUBASA I.ANCEOLATA. 



Alaria lanceolata. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 767 

 (1865). 



Fore wing pale silky-yellow, with a purplish-pink costal band 

 which extends halfway across and through the cell to below the 

 apex ; a similar baud aljove the posterior border : hind wing whitish ; 

 thorax, head, palpi, and legs above purplish pink ; terminal spines 

 on fore tibia black ; abdomen yellow. 



Expanse Ig inch. 



Hab. Nilgiris (S. India). In coll. British Museum and F. 

 Moore. 



