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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 629 C. MEGASPILARIA, n. Sp. Male and female blackish cupreous brown, palest on the hind wing, slightly greyish across the disk; with numerous short transverse delicate black strigse: fore wing with a black transverse subbasal and exterior pale-outer-bordered spotted lines, which curve outwards to the middle of the wing and thence obliquely descend inwardly to posterior margin ; discal spot very large, black, ascending to the costa; a submarginal narrow sinuous whitish line bordered on both sides by longitudinal black streaks : hind wing with a small indistinct discal spot, and transverse spotted line. A marginal row of black lunules on both wings. Underside yellowish, with blackish cinereous similar markings ; the exterior border of fore wing blotched. Cilia with pale inner line. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. C. ALBIDENTATA, n. Sp. Female testaceous, with numerous short transverse black strigse: fore wing with a black transverse subbasal irregular curved line, and outer obliquely straight sinuous line ; discal spot narrow ; a submarginal row of pure white marks, the middle one being a large round spot, the others dentate spots : hind wing pale greyish brown, with three short transverse sinuous blackish lines from abdominal margin. Both wings with a blackish marginal line. Underside paler, thickly studded with short transverse cinereous strigse ; transverse discal spot and outer line indistinct. Legs with blackish spots. Expanse 1-f inch. Bengal. In Coll. F. Moore. C. PANNOSARIA, n. Sp. Female brown : fore wing with a broad purplish brown exterior band extending by a broad longitudinal streak to a white narrow discal spot, which it encloses, the space above and beneath the streak being yellowish, the inner margin of the band and the base of the wing green; two transverse subbasal reddish contiguous lines; several short transverse red strigse on posterior margin ; exterior band traversed by a row of purplish-grey lunules : hind wing pale brown, with several short darker strigse ; a small brown discal spot, and short streaks from abdominal margin ; a broad pale purplish-brown marginal band traversed by pale lunules. Exterior margins with a row of black lunules. Cilia yellowish. Underside yellow, marked as above. Expanse 1^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. C. SEMICLARATA. Selidosema semiclarata,Wa\k. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxiv. p. 1029. Scotosia quadrifera, Walk. ib. xxxv, Suppl. v. p. 1687. Darjeeling. |