394 MB. W. WARREN Olf NEW GENERA AND [Apr. 18, 



Moore, though it certainly looks distinct. The latter species varies 

 considerably, and some of the forms are intermediate between it 

 and A. semilugens. The type was taken in September. — H. J. E.'] 



Abraxas alpestris, sp. u. (Plate XXX. fig. 15.) 



c? . Fore wings straw-yellow, slightly deeper yellow at the ex- 

 treme base, and paler in the centre ; the whole ground-colour almost 

 obliterated by the density of the fuscous-brown irrorations, which 

 form two darker shades, one indicating the outside edge of the 

 basal patch, the other the ordinary 2nd line ; touching the latter is 

 a large round dark cell-spot ; fringe chequered brown and yel- 

 lowish. Hind whigs white, for f from tlie base, sparsely sprinkled 

 with dark dots, and with a central spot ; outer third dusted like 

 the fore wings, and separated from the whiter basal field by a 

 thick dark fuscous curved line. Abdomen fuscous mixed with 

 yellowish. Underside like upper, the dark markings more promi- 

 nent. 



Expanse of wings 28 miUim. 



[Four males of this distinct species were brought from Sunduk- 

 pho, on the Nepal frontier of Sikkim, by one of my native collec- 

 tors.— iT. J. E.-] 



Abraxas niqbivena, sp. n. 



cS . "Wings shining white, with all the veins delicately traced in 

 black ; fore wings with the extreme costa from base to middle 

 black ; extreme base orange, with a single black dot at the base, 

 and 3 on the outside of the orange patch, situated on the subcostal, 

 median, and submedian veins respectively ; fringes white, short ; 

 top of head and thorax orange ; the latter with a small black dot 

 on each side near the base of the wing and (probably) 4 black dots 

 on the top. Abdomen pale yellow, with a dorsal and two lateral 

 rows of black spots, one on each segment ; the underside with an 

 elongate black dash on each segment, nearly touching the lateral 

 spots ; antennae blackish. Underside of wings white ; in the fore 

 wing, with the subcostal and discal areas blackish. 



Expanse of wings 30 milUm. 



Hah. Sikkim ; also in Mr. Moore's collection. 



[Taken by me at Tonglo and on the Nepal frontier from 10,000 

 to 12,000 feet in July.— ^. J. E.'] 



Abraxas triseriata, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig. 9.) 

 S 2 . Wings shining white, but with an ochreous tint ; in the 

 $ , towards the costa and base, dull greyish ; all the veins clearly 

 delineated in black ; costa of fore wing narrowly black to beyond 

 the middle ; basal patch pale yellow, with a black spot close to 

 the base itself, and the outer edge marked with an irregular, dis- 

 continuous black curved Une, preceded by a less distinctly 

 expressed similar line in the patch ; just beyond the middle a 

 curved blackish shade, and half\vay between it and the margin a 

 line curved line, both parallel to the hind margin ; the outer of the 



