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Show 56 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10, jet-black line extending at the base into a large triangular streak two transverse pale discal wavy lines ; a short black descending spot from the costa before the apex terminated by a pale submarginal line : hind wing and abdomen pale chocolate-brown. Head and thorax chocolate-brown ; front of thorax yellowish ferruginous, bordered by a broad jet-black collar. Allied to O. musiva. Expanse If- inch. Darjeeling." In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. O. COSTALIS, n. sp. Pale pinkish testaceous : fore wing with a broad testaceous-white costal streak bordered below by a parallel black streak interrupted by well-defined small pale-centred orbicular and reniform marks ; exterior margin with a row of black dots : hind wing white. Head and front of thorax pale pinkish testaceous, divided by a black line, two small black spots between the base of the antennae ; hind part of thorax dark pinkish testaceous. Abdomen pale testaceous. Expanse l;j inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; Brit. Mus. • Fam. ORTHOSID^E. Genus ORTHOSTA, Ochs. O R T H O S I A C U R V I P L E N A , Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M . xxxiii. Suppl. iii. p. 715. Darjeeling (W. S. Atkinson). O. EXTERNA, Walk. ib. p. 715. Darjeeling (W. S. Atkinson). Genus DABARITA, Walk. DABARITA SUBTILIS, Walk. ib. x. Noct. p. 479. Larva feeds on the Jamoon tree (Eugenia jambolana).-A. Grote, Esq. Fam. IIADENID.E. Genus AGRIOPIS, Boisd. A G R I O P I S LEPIDA, n. sp. Male greyish white : fore wing with a subbasal and subapical ferruginous- brown patch, both irregularly bordered by a black line, the latter having inner blackish parallel lines crossing the disk ; a black dot between the patches; exterior margin ferruginous brown, with a blackish dotted wavy marginal line, the dots being white exteriorly: hind wing white, with a pale brown exterior border. Cilia of both wings alternate pale brown and white. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. |
