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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 47 tufts and tip darker. Underside glossy yellow : fore wing with a broad brown marginal band and large discal spot: hind wing with brown submarginal band. Expanse 1^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. A. INDICA, n. sp. Male. Dusky black: fore wing with a basal, double subbasal, a small circular white-centred orbicular mark, and a large quadrate reniform mark, three transverse discal lunulated lines, and a marginal row of spots black, more or less bordered with white: hind wing pale greyish brown. Palpi, head, and thorax hoary. Abdomen brown. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. F. Moore. Genus GAURENA, Walk. GAURENA FLORENS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxii. Suppl. ii. p. 620. Darjeeling. G. FLORESCENS, Walk. ib. p. 620. Darjeeling. Fam. LEUCANID^;. Genus MYTHIMNA, Hiibn. MYTHIMNA CERVINA, n. sp. (Pl. VI. fig. 18.) Greyish fawn-colour: fore wing with ill-defined basal marks, a transverse recurved double line one-fourth from the base and a straighter similar double line one-fourth from the apex, and a sub-marginal series of small lunular spots chocolate-brown ; the upper portion of the interspace between the transverse double lines also cbocolate-brown, which contains two reversely oblique reniform marks, the inner one being greyish fawn-colour in the centre, the other dusky : hind wing and abdomen pale greyish brown. Head and thorax greyish fawn-colour, with chocolate-brown streaks. Cilia and tip of abdomen pinkish brown. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus LEUCANIA, Ochs. LEUCANIA EXTRANEA, Guen. Noct. i. p. 77. Calcutta. L. EXSANGUIS, Guen. Noct. i. p. 83. Silhet. |
