394 MR. W. WARREN ox NEW GEKEBA AND [Apr. 18, 



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

 considerably, and some ot" 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.) 



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

 treme base, and paler in tlie 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 wings white, for | from the 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, tlie darJc markings more promi- 

 nent. 



Expanse of wings 28 millira. 



[Four males of this distinct species w'ere brought from Sundiik- 

 pho, on the jN^epal frontier of Sikkim, by one of my native collec- 

 tors.— iT. J. E.\ 



Abraxas nigeitena, sp. n. 



S . Wings shining white, with all the veins delicately ti'aced 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 (probal)ly) 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 ; antenna; blackish. Underside of wings white ; in the foi'e 

 wing, with the subcostal and discal areas blackish. 



Expanse of wings 30 millim. 



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 teiseriata, sp. n. (Plate XXXI. fig, 9.) 



(S 2 ' Wings shining white, but Aiith an ochreous tint ; iu the 

 2 , 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 line, preceded by a less distinctly 

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

 curved blackish shade, and halfway between it and the margin a 

 tine curved line, both parallel to the hind margin : tlie outer of the 



