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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 45 marginal white band ; a darker curved pale-inner-bordered streak before the apex ; a marginal row of narrow pale lunules: hind wing darker fawn-colour, palest on the disk. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ferruginous. Expanse If to 2 inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus THYATIRA, Hiibn. THYATIRA BATIS, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2. p. 286. T. ALBICOSTA, n. sp. Greyish brown: fore wing varied pinkish and greenish white along the costa, beneath which are numerous transverse narrow undulating dark-brown pale-bordered lines; two indistinct reniform discal marks ; a curved streak beneath the apex, and a marginal undulating narrow line: hind wing with a discal and two subbasal pale bands; cilia greyish white. Head and thorax brown. Abdomen pale greyish brown. Expanse 2-f inches. Bengal. In Coll. A.. E. Russell. Genus OSICA, Walk. OsiCA UNDULATA, n. Sp. Brown: fore wing dark ferruginous brown, suffused with grey broadly from posterior angle; numerous transverse blackish pale-bordered undulating lines, and a marginal lunulated line : hind wing brownish fawn-colour. Head and front of thorax dull yellow. Thorax grey. Abdomen pale brown. Expanse 2\ inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Fam. BRYOPHILID^E. Genus BRYOPHILA, Treit. BRYOPHILA ALBISTIGMA, n. sp. Greyish green : fore wing with darker transverse undulating pale-bordered lines ; two dots within the cell and border of large reniform mark, submarginal and marginal row of spots silvery white, the latter row with black central dots: hind wing pale pinkish fawn-colour, with a narrow brown pale-bordered discal band. Body greyish green. Expanse 1 inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Fam. BOMBYCOIDJ-E. Genus DIPHTERA, Ochs. DIPHTERA ATROVIRENS, Walk. Catal. Lepid. Het. B. M. xxxii. Suppl. ii. p. 614. Darjeeling. |