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Show 648 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, posterior angle to below the apex. Cilia black below the apex. Legs black-speckled. Expanse 1^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Remark.-Allied to Evarzia ozararia, Walk. M. EMERSARIA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B, M. xxiii. Geom. p. 925. M. ELEONORA. Phalcena eleonora, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pl. 288. f. E-G. Macaria eleonorata, Guen. Phal. ii. p. 89. Larva feeds on Mimosa-flowers.-A. Grote, Esq. M. NORA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. Geom. p. 934. M. STRENIATARIA, Walk. ib. xxvi. Geom. p. 1646. M. STRENUATARIA, Walk. ib. p. 1647. M. PERMOTARIA, Walk. ib. xxiii. Geom. p. 929. KRANANDA, n. g., Moore. Male and female. Palpi porrect, slender, compressed, pilose; third joint small, cylindrical. Proboscis moderate. Antennse slender, minutely serrated, set with fascicles of very fine hairs in the male, simple in the female. Legs short, rather stout, smooth ; hind tibiae incrassated and armed with four spurs. Body moderate ; abdomen extending to the length of the hind wing. Wings long, broad exteriorly : fore wing with the costa nearly straight to two-thirds its length, where it is considerably arched to the end, the apex being falcate ; exterior margin scalloped, produced in the middle and at the posterior angle : hind wing, anterior margin concave before the end ; the apex much produced, being formed into an elongated process; exterior margin nearly straight, slightly scalloped. KRANANDA SEMIHYALINA, n. sp. Male and female greyish testaceous, darkest on the hind wing, with several short transverse darker strigse: both wings hyaline to beyond the middle, with irregular exterior margin, that of the fore wing defined by a blackish line, the band with thinly dispersed transverse strigse, and with a short darker streak medially on both the anterior and posterior margins ; a submarginal row of whitish semidiaphanous lunular spots; exterior margin defined by a delicate dark line: base of fore wing partially covered with dark speckles, and bordered by a double subbasal transverse dark line; extreme base of hind wing with a dark streak. Cilia with a pale inner line. Palpi, front of head, stripe on vertex, and another on top of the thorax bright testaceous. Thorax and abdomen grey. Expanse, cf 1-g-, 2 2|. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. |
