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Show 44 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10, 9. On the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal. By FREDERIC M O O R E. [Continued from Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 823.] (Plates VI. & VII.) Tbe first part of this " List of the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal " appeared in the Society's ** Proceedings' for December 1865 ; and in it were enumerated 629 species, pertaining to the first three tribes of the order. In the present and concluding portions the remaining tribes, viz. the Noctues, Pyrales, Geometres, & c , are treated of, and the names and descriptions of 960 species belonging to these groups are given, of which number about 250 are characterized for the first time. For the specimens used in the compilation of this list I am mostly indebted to Messrs. A. E. Russell and W . S. Atkinson, of the Bengal Civil Service, both of w h o m kindly placed collections at m y disposal, other species being contained either in the collections of the British Museum or in m y own. All these have been compared with the species described by Mr. Walker in the British Museum Catalogues, the result of which has been the reduction of various generic and specific names of that author to the rank of synonyms. The total number of species of the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal that are recorded in this memoir in each tribe are as follows:- Papiliones 409 Sphinges 50 Bomb'yces 387 Noctues 288 Pseudo deltoides 27 Deltoides 34 Pyrales 73 Geometres 288 Crambices 18 Tortrices 7 Tineines 35 Total 1616 Tribe NOCTUES. Fam. CYMATOPHORID^E. Genus GONOPHORA, Bruand. GONOPHORA INDICA, n. Sp. Pale fawn-colour : fore wing with the base uniform pale fawn-colour, bordered by an oblique silvery-white line, and traversed by a white basal streak, which is crossed by a narrow line ; middle of the costa white, beneath which the wing is pale ferruginous, with delicate undulating transverse stria?, and a series of four narrow pale-bordered darker zigzag discal lines, bordered externally by a sub- |