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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 627 dered diffused black submarginal wavy line ; a double lunular discal line, and two short subbasal bands, their interspaces being somewhat dusky, each being equidistant and arising from the posterior margin, becoming evanescent at some distance above the middle, but reappearing, slightly in the male, prominently in the female, on the costa : hind wing with two indistinct subbasal black lines, a discal spot, and outer greyish-exteriorly-bordered transverse double lunular line ; exterior margin with a row of black lunules. Expanse 2\ inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. H. RETRACTARIA, n. Sp. (Pl. XXXII. fig. 7i) Male and female dark greyish testaceous, with numerous closely disposed, short, very narrow black strigse : fore wing grey at the base and along the costal border; a zigzag blackish band obliquely from base of hind margin retracting to the costa at one-third of its length, bordered exteriorly by a black line; a parallel black-inner-bordered greyish-black submarginal band, which also retracts to the costa before the apex, emitting a black streak from the retracted angle to exterior margin ; a black discal spot: hind wing with a basal blackish band, discal spot, and submarginal black-inner-bordered greyish-black band, exterior to which on both wings, in the female, the space is pale or greyish ; a black marginal line. Cilia broad, dark testaceous. Body greyish, with blackish waist-band. Expanse 1^ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. H. HUMERARIA, n. sp. Male pale whitish testaceous : hind wing with closely disposed very narrow transverse ferruginous strigse ; a black line bordered within by a parallel ferruginous line from base of hind wing, ascending the fore wing parallel with the costa to beneath a black discal spot, before and above which it twice retracts and then proceeds to the base of the wing along the costa, the space within being whitish grey : fore wing with three slightly apparent ferruginous bands obliquely from below the apex to hind margin; exterior margin with a suffused dusky-grey patch near the apex and posterior angle : hind wing with a black discal dot; a slightly apparent narrow inner and broad sub-marginal band, formed of partly confluent ferruginous lines, the latter bordered inwardly by a fine black sinuous line, and outwardly by a straight white line. Head and collar of thorax testaceous ; thorax greyish white. Abdomen yellowish ferruginous, with blackish waistband, and narrow segmental borders. Expanse 2g inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. H. ATROSTIPATA. Scotosia atrostipata, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M . xxv. Geom. p. 1354. |
