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Show 660 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, Remark.-Allied to P. cuneata, but may be distinguished by the exterior margin of both wings not being angled in the middle, and by the cinereous bands of the hind wing being curved and not straight and broadly diffused as in P. cuneata. GANDARITIS, n. g., Moore. Male. Palpi ascending, pilose, compressed; third joint small, conical. Thorax moderate. Abdomen long, attenuate. Antennse simple. Wings very large, elongated, broad: fore wing arched; apex slightly falcate; exterior margin oblique, posterior angle rounded; hind margin straight: hind wing produced, extending considerably beyond the posterior angle of fore wing; anterior margin convex, apex rounded. Legs smooth, long ; hind tibiae with four apical spurs. GANDARITIS FLAVATA, n. sp. Male yellow: fore wing with a ferruginous-yellow dark-brown-bordered medial transverse band, the inner border oblique and wavy, the outer border extending obliquely towards the exterior margin and then retracting to the posterior margin close to the inner border; both borders of the band with a contiguous less-distinct brown line, and near the costa is a brown discal spot; base of the wing streaked with ferruginous ; a brown lunular line from the angle of the band to the apex of the wing, beneath which the exterior margin is cinereous ; a submarginal pale lunular line diffused within beneath the angle of the band with yellowish ferruginous : hind wing with a ferruginous medial transverse lunular line; exterior border suffused with ferruginous. Palpi and antennse brown. Head and body ferruginous yellow. Underside much paler: fore wing with an oblique brown streak from middle of the costa, and another below the apex : hind wing speckled with brown; a blackish patch on the middle of anterior margin, and another above the anal angle. Legs partly blackish brown. Expanse 3 inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus CIDARIA, Treit. C I D A R I A SUBSTITUTA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1691. Darjeeling. C. INTERPLAGATA, Guen. Phal. ii. p. 461. Darjeeling. C. INEXTRICATA, Walk. I. c. p. 1691. Darjeeling. C. ARGENTILINEATA, n. Sp. (Pl. XXXIII. fig. 5.) Male and female cupreous brown : fore wing with a silvery-white transverse subbasal narrow curved line, near which is a double slightly |
