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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 51 tudinal streaks on the exterior margin, the latter with pale borders; a pale space below the apical half of the costa containing two round yellowish spots, one at the extremity of the cell, the other beyond ; small spots along the costa, two macks within the cell, short streaks and transverse lines below the cell black : hind wing pale greyish brown, with broad darker brown marginal band. Head and thorax blackish brown, the latter ferruginous in the middle. Abdomen brown. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. X. LEUCOSTIGMA, II. Sp. Female ferruginous: fore wing varied with pale ferruginous and dark ferruginous brown ; a dark basal curved double line enclosing a pale space, a transverse sinuous double line beyond, irregular transverse discal lunulated lines, and submarginal row of lanceolate marks; orbicular mark pale; a large irregular-shaped pale-bordered white reniform mark : hind wing and abdomen reddish fawn-colour. Head and thorax varied pale ferruginous and dark ferruginous brown. Cilia ferruginous. Expanse 2 inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus DIPTERYGIA, Steph. DlPTERYGIA INDICA, 11. sp. Female dark reddish brown: fore wing mottled with blackish brown, a greyish elongated patch disposed exteriorly along posterior margin, bordered above by an irregular blackish line : hind wing and abdomen brown. Head and thorax dark reddish brown. Expanse IL inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. F. Moore. Genus SPODOPTERA, Guen. SPODOPTERA CILIUM, Guen. Noct. i. p. 156. Larva feeds on the Doobh Grass (Cynadon dactylon).-A. Grote, Esq. Genus PRODENIA, Guen. PRODENIA CILIGERA, Guen. Noct. i. p. 163. P. glaucistriga, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. ix. Noct. 197, ? . IP. retina, Boisd. Larva very destructive to cabbages.-A. Grote, Esq. P. INFECTA, Walk. ib. p. 196. P. insignata, Walk. ib. p. 197. P. LECTULA, Walk. ib. xv. Noct. p. 1679. |
