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Show 622 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, Genus CROCALIS, Treit. CROCALIS OBLIQUARIA, n. sp. Female bright yellow: fore wing slightly blotched with reddish yellow; a black discal spot; a straight dusky pale-yellow-exterior-bordered band obliquely from posterior margin to the costa before the apex ; a row of black marginal dots : hind wing yellowish white, with a blackish discal spot, and two slightly apparent outer yellowish bands. Head and thorax bright yellow. Abdomen pale yellow. Underside paler, marked as above. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E, Russell. C. BIVITTARIA, n. Sp. Male and female bright yellow : fore wing with a few minute red scattered fleckles; a slightly apparent subbasal red-Heckled curved band; a brighter dark-exterior-bordered red nearly straight band from the posterior margin one-third from the angle obliquely to the costa before the apex ; a blackish discal ringlet: hind wing yellowish white. Head and thorax reddish yellow. Abdomen yellow. Underside pale yellow; both wings with a small discal ringlet and slight reddish oblique band, those on the hind wing being slightly visible from the upperside. Expanse, S 2 inches, $ 2^ inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. C. LENTIGINOSARIA, n/^p. Female dark yellow: fore wing with numerous minute blackish speckles and cinereous blotches; two medial transverse cinereous lines, the inner line curved and but slightly apparent, the outer line oblique, between the lines is a white-centred black discal ringlet; a submarginal row of diffused cinereous lunules; a marginal row of black dots : hind wing numerously studded with cinereous speckles exteriorly, showing also a slight cinereous discal spot and two outer bands. Underside paler, marked as above. Expanse 2-f inches. Bengal (Sherwill). In Coll. F. Moore. C. ANGULARIA, n. Sp. Female yellow : fore wing scalloped below the apex ; with numerous small dark-centred reddish blotches; two dark reddish transverse lines, the first line subbasal, much curved ; the other recurved and exterior to a black discal ringlet; a marginal row of black dots : hind wing with a few reddish fleckles and a row of blackish dots along exterior margin ; a black discal spot, and outer reddish wavy streak from abdominal margin. Underside paler, marked as above. Cilia of fore wing reddish. Expanse 2 inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. |