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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 633 green. Underside-both wings bright yellow, with broad blackish outer band, palest and slightly whitish along the exterior margin. Palpi and legs black-speckled. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. H. VARICOLORARIA, n. Sp. Male dark cinereous : fore wing with numerous short transverse cinereous, pink, and yellow strigse, those of the latter colour predominating in the middle of the wing between two pale-bordered black transverse discal lines, those of the darker colour being confluent at the base and along exterior border; beneath the apex and at the posterior angle is a pale patch ; discal spot blackish : hind wing with the strigse most thickly disposed along exterior border, and across the veins from the base; an indistinct inner transverse line and darker black outer sinuous line : both wings with a marginal blackish line lunulated with white ; cilia pink, paler beneath, slightly spotted with cinereous on the fore wing. Head luteous. Thorax cinereous. Abdomen luteous, with four dorsal tufts laterally edged with black. Expanse 2 inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. H. TENEBROSARIA, U. Sp. Male dark cinereous brown, with numerous short transverse greyish-white strigse, which are most thickly disposed across the middle of the fore wing: fore wing with a transverse indistinct oblique subbasal blackish sinuous line, a discal spot, and an outer more clearly defined sinuous line : hind wing with a similar outer sinuous line: both wings with a submarginal indistinct whitish wavy lunular line. Underside cinereous white ; both wings with a cinereous-black discal spot, a transverse outer row of lunulated spots, and a broad marginal band with a pale spot at the apex. Expanse 2-L inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. H. COSTISTRTGARIA, n. Sp. Male greyish green : fore wing with a subbasal transverse blackish line, which is bent outward near the costa; an exterior transverse widely sinuous greenish-black line, which is medially curved outwards and bordered with greyish white ; along the costa between the lines are numerous short transverse black and pale-testaceous strigse, which also extend down the inner portion along the subbasal line; discal spot diffused brown; some transverse black spots at the base of the wing and some short blackish strigse from the costa before the apex to the exterior margin below it: hind wing with pale-brown and testaceous strigse at the base; a diffused blackish discal spot, and narrow blackish outer whitish-margiued sinuous line: both wings with an indistinct submarginal row of whitish lunules; cilia edged with white. Front of head jet-black ; top and thorax green. Ab- PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1867, No. XLI. |