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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 53 and distinct spots on cilia white : hind wing and abdomen pale brown. Head and thorax dark brown ; a large white spot at the base of the thorax. Cilia brown, edged with white. Expanse, f 1T%, $ 1-& inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. M. ALBIRENA, 11. Sp. Male dark greyish brown : fore wing with small spots on the costa, a few disposed near the base ; a discal row of dots, a submarginal and marginal wavy line, pale greyish brown; reniform mark composed of a short white upright streak and a separate lower spot, which is constricted on its inner side : hind wing brown, with a paler marginal wavy line. Exterior margins of the wings scalloped ; the apex of fore wing slightly falcated. Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish brown. Expanse 1-| inch. Calcutta; "Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. M. SIKKIMA, n. sp. Male and female dark fuliginous brown : fore wing with a short subbasal longitudinal streak, beyond which is a transverse sinuous double line, the discal lunulated lines, and a submarginal row of short longitudinal streaks black, more or less with greenish-grey borders; orbicular and reniform marks large and greenish grey : hind wing pale fuliginous brown, darkest exteriorly. Head and thorax blackish ; thorax with a slight ferruginous collar fringed with white. Abdomen brown. Expanse 1\ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. Genus PERIGEA, Guen. PERIGEA TRICYCLA, Guen. Noct. i. p. 226. Silhet. P. APAMEOIDES, Guen. Noct. i. p. 229. S. P. canorufa, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. Suppl. ii. p. 683. 2 . P. illecta, Walk. ib. p. 684. Larva feeds on Cereoj)sis.-A. Grote, Esq., Calcutta. Genus AMYNA, Guen. A M Y N A SELENAMPHA, Guen. Noct. i. p. 406 ; WTalk. Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. xv. p. 1696. A. spoliata, Walk. ib. xiii. p. 1050. Silhet. Fam. NocTuiDJi. Genus AGROTIS, Ochs. A G R O T I S SUFFUSA, Gmel. (Guen. Noct. i. p. 268). |