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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 87 L. CUPROVIRIDALIS, 11. Sp. Female. Fore wing coppery green ; two medial transverse black sinuous lines, the inner line with a black spot at the base and another above it; middle of the wing between the lines whitish, green-speckled ; the orbicular and reniform spots black, conjoined ; a marginal row of alternate black and white spots ; cilia spotted with black opposite to the white marginal spots : hind wing white, with a broad fuliginous cupreous-brown exterior band. Thorax coppery green. Abdomen blackish, speckled with white. Palpi tipt with white. Underside white; both wings with a broad brown exterior band; discal spot on hind wing and base of costa brown; marginal dots white. Legs blackish green, each joint tipt with white. Expanse 1\ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson; F. Moore. Genus BERTULA, Walk. B E R T U L A HISBONALIS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xvi. Delt. p. 164. Silhet. B. BREVIVITTALIS, n. Sp. Male blackish brown : fore wing with two transverse narrow yellow bands, a small black orbicular spot, and a large reniform spot; first band upright, the second oblique ; an irregular wavy submarginal yellowish line with a longitudinal short straight yellow streak below the apex ; a marginal row of triangular black spots : hind wing paler, with rather indistinct blackish discal spot, a curved outer pale-bordered narrow yellow band, and submarginal similar sinuous band; a row of blackish marginal lunules. Palpi edged with yellow. Legs blackish, spotted with yellow. Expanse ly2^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. B. CHALYBEALIS, n. sp. (Pl. VII. fig. 8.) Male and female dark chestnut-brown, more or less suffused with chalybeous: fore wing with two narrow pale-inner-bordered darker brown oblique transverse bands, between which is a narrow reniform mark ; an indistinct submarginal irregular wavy narrow brown band: hind wing with pale-bordered narrow transverse discal baud, a less distinct inner discal mark, and outer submarginal irregular brown band ; cilia greyish-speckled. Underside paler, speckled with grey. Thorax and palpi chestnut-brown, the latter fringed with white in the male. Expanse If inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. B. STIGMATALIS, 11. Sp. Male and female dark fuliginous brown : fore wing with two widely separated medial transverse blackish lines, the inner line nearly |
