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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 63 P. GEMMIFERA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 934. P. SEMIVITTA, n. sp. (Pl. VI. fig. 13.) Male and female greyish brown, paler beneath : fore wing slightly suffused with cupreous from middle of the costa and below the apex ; an elongated slightly oblique longitudinal discal silvery mark, beneath which is an oblique square dark brown band bordered on each side by a pale line, the outer line extending upward to the costa before the apex : hind wing and abdomen pale cupreous brown. Head and thorax greyish brown, the latter with narrow brighter brown collar. Expanse 1| inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson; F. Moore. Fam. CALPiDiE. Genus PLUSIODONTA, Guen. Syn. Deva, Walk. PLUSIODONTA CHALSYTOIDES, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 360. Deva conduceus, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. Noct. p. 963. Calcutta. Larva bred on Clypea and Cissampelos.-A. Grote, Esq. Genus OR^ESIA, Guen. OR^ESIA PROVOCANS, Walk. ib. p. 943. Silhet. O. RECTISTRIA, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 363. O. EMARGINATA, Fabr. (Guen. ib. p. 363). Genus CALPE, Treit. CALPE MINUTICORNIS, Guen. ib. p. 374. Fam. HYBL,EID,E. Genus HYBLAA, Fabr. H Y B L A A PUERA, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 103. f. D, E. Larva reared on Bignonia and on Callicarpa.-A. Grote, Esq. H. CONSTELLATA, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 391. II. FIRMAMENTUM, Guen. ib. p. 392. Genus PHYCODES, Guen. Syn. Tegna, Walk. P H Y C O D E S HIRUNDINICORNIS, Guen. ib. p. 389. Tegna hyblceella, Wralk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. Suppl. v. p.1810. Larva abundant on banyan (Ficus indica).-A. Grote, Esq. |