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Show 54 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10 Genus EPILECTA, Hiibn. E P I L E C T A P U L C H E R R I M A , n. sp. (Pl. VI. fig. 3.) Male and female blackish cupreous brown: fore wing with two basal, one discal, and two marginal black-bordered yellowish-green transverse lunulated lines, the discal row with the lower lunules exteriorly pointed with white ; reniform spot yellow ; four small whitish spots on costa before the apex: hind wing cupreous brown, with a broad irregular golden-yellow discal band. Cilia of hind wing broad, brown in the middle of the margin, the rest yellow. Head, thorax, and anal tuft blackish brown. Abdomen brown, the segments with narrow pale yellowish band. Expanse 1^ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. Genus TRIPH^ENA, Ochs. T R I P H ^ E N A S E M I H E R B I D A , Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xi. Noct. p. 743. Genus GRAPHIPHORA, Ochs. G R A P H I P H O R A C - N I G R U M , Linn. (Guen. Noct. i. p. 328). G. CERASTIOIDES, n. sp. Male and female dark purple fawn-colour : fore wing with two darker transverse subbasal indistinct double lines, orbicular mark, and a transverse discal double line, the latter with an outward row of indistinct dots and a submarginal pale line ; reniform mark distinct and reddish-centred: hind wing and abdomen pale fawn-colour ; tip of abdomen and cilia pale reddish. Head and thorax dark purple fawn-colour. Expanse 1 g inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; Brit. Mus. G. FASCIATA, n. sp. Male and female pale testaceous : fore wing with a dark fascia across the middle and along the exterior margin ; an ill-defined blackish basal, subbasal, and discal transverse narrow lunulated lines, the last having an outer row of blackish clots, beyond which is a wavy pale-bordered line and a row of marginal dots ; a blackish spot within the cell; reniform mark distinct, brighter testaceous above, blackish below, partly bordered with white: hind wing pale fawn-colour. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale testaceous. Expanse If inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. G. BASISTRIGA, n. sp. Male greyish testaceous : fore wing with a diffused dark longitudinal streak from the base, which spreads along the posterior margin ; two subbasal dusky double lines, the second of which proceeds to near the posterior angle; orbicular and reniform marks, discal and |