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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 55 submarginal double lines, and costal spots dusky, between the latter is a double row of blackish dots ; a single blackish dot near base of the cell: hind wing pale yellowish testaceous, with an indistinct discal streak. Head grey, thorax dark, and abdomen pale testaceous. Cilia pinkish testaceous. Expanse 1^ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll.W. S. Atkinson; Brit. Mus. G. RUBICILIA, 11. Sp. Male and female yellowish testaceous : fore wing with a slight dark fascia diffused across the middle, and a streak obliquely before the apex ; reniform mark, a marginal row of narrow longitudinal dusky streaks transversely divided in the middle and bordered inwardly by a narrow pale line : hind wing pale pinkish fawn-colour. Head and front of thorax greenish yellow ; hind part of thorax testaceous. Abdomen pale testaceous, tuft reddish. Cilia pale reddish. Expanse I5 inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. Genus OCHROPLEURA, Hiibn. OCHROPLEURA FLAMMATRA, Gmel. (Guen. Noct. i. p. 327). Agrotis basiclavis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . x. Noct. p. 346. O. RENALIS, n. sp. Male brownish fawn-colour : fore wing with a transverse basal and subbasal double lines, between which is a diffused streak, a slight spot beneath the cell, the space before the orbicular and reniform marks blackish, both being greyish-centred and with their borders black ; two transverse series of ill-defined dusky dots : hind wing and abdomen pale brown ; anal tuft pale ferruginous. Head and thorax brown ; thorax with a slight blackish collar. Expanse 1| inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. O. SPILOTA, 11. sp. Female dull testaceous : fore wing with the costa broadly testaceous yellow ; the veins lined with yellowish ; a longitudinal spot within the cell, a transverse lunule at the extremity, and a longitudinal spot beneath the cell, and two or three smaller basal spots jet-black, each with a pale yellow narrow border; exterior margin with a series of black dots : hind wing pale yellowish testaceous. Head, thorax, and abdomeu testaceous. Expanse lT 2<y inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. O. TRIANGULARIS, n. sp. Female dark chocolate-brown : fore wing with a broad basal costal streak, including the orbicular mark and the inner border of the reniform mark, yellowish ferruginous, which is bordered below by a |