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Show 46 MR. F. MOORE ON BKNGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10, D. NIGROVIRIDIS, Walk. Catal. Lepid. Het. B. M . p. 615. Darjeeling. D. PRASINARIA, Walk. ib. p. 615. Darjeeling. D. VIGENS, Walk. ib. p. 616. Darjeeling. D. PALLIDA, n. sp. (Pl. VI. fig. 6.) Pale sap-green : fore wing with spots along the costa, a short streak from the base below the costa, descending beneath and proceeding along the posterior margin and ascending irregularly upwards, beyond which are three streak-like spots ; at the extremity of the cell is a quadrate spot with pointed angles, beyond which is also a streak-like spot; a transverse irregular line black ; the latter bordered inwardly, and the other markings outwardly with silvery white ; a marginal row of black white-bordered dots: hind wing pale greenish white. Head and thorax pale green. Thorax with a spot on each side in front and others on the top black. Abdomen pale grey, with delicate black dorsal spots. Expanse 1^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. D. DISCIBRUNNEA, n. sp. (Pl. VI. fig. 14.) Pale dull green : fore wing with numerous spots along the costa, spots within and beneath the cell, base of wing, and transverse discal marks black ; those at the base, at the extremity of the cell, and the transverse discal series interspersed with brown ; a marginal series of small blackish lunules : hind wing pale greyish brown, with broad darker brown marginal and narrow discal bands. Head and thorax green, fringed with small blackish-brown spots. Abdomen greyish brown. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus ACRONYCTA, Ochs. A C R O N Y C T A PRUINOSA, Guen. Noct. i. p. 53. Silhet. A. FLAVALA, n. Sp. Male. Fore wing greyish cupreous brown, with some short blackish streaks at the base, a black oblique transverse subbasal, discal, and submarginal sinuous grey-bordered lines, each terminating on the costa; reniform mark small, grey, the space above it being also grey : hind wing yellow, with a broad submarginal pale brown band, which extends upwards along the abdominal margin to the base. Cilia of fore wing brown, of hind wing whitish. Head and thorax greyish white, speckled with black. Abdomen pale brown ; dorsal |
