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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 59 marginal streaks bordered within by ferruginous ; orbicular and reniform marks large and green-centred : hind wing fuliginous brown, with a marginal and discal pale line. Head and thorax dark green, varied with brown. Abdomen brown ; tuft in the male pale ferruginous. Expanse, f If, $ 1|. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. H. AUROVIRIDIS, n. sp. (Pl. VI. fig. 11.) Male golden green: fore wing with a row of white spots with black borders along the costa; basal zigzag transverse line, two lines beneath the cell, orbicular mark, two zigzag discal lines, and a marginal wavy line white, the interspace of the basal line, lower discal, orbicular and reniform marks, and the outer submarginal line dark brown : hind wing pale cupreous brown, with whitish marginal line. Head and thorax brownish green. Abdomen brown. Expanse 1-^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. H. TENEBROSA, n. Sp. Male blackish brown : fore wing marked with numerous irregular longitudinal narrow black streaks ; a small orbicular mark and an elongated apical patch dull ferruginous brown : hind wing blackish cupreous brown ; cilia greyish brown. Head and thorax ferruginous brown, with numerous blackish-brown scales. Abdomen blackish brown; tuft ferruginous. Expanse 1| inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. H. ALBIDISCA, n. sp. (Pl. VI. fig. 17.) Male. Fore wing pale ferruginous, suffused with greenish poste-teriorly; a white zigzag transverse basal and lunulated subbasal and discal lines ; a zigzag marginal and a wavy marginal line white ; the basal alternately patched, the subbasal exteriorly and the discal interiorly, the submarginal and marginal exteriorly bordered with black ; middle of the disk suffused with blackish brown ; orbicular mark black, bordered exteriorly with white; a large reniform mark and streak beneath it white : hind wing pale cupreous brown, with an indistinct spot and discal band; cilia pale ferruginous. Head and thorax ferruginous. Abdomen paler. Expanse J| inch. Bengal. In Coll. F. Moore. H. LANCEOLA, U. Sp. Female dull brownish green : fore wing with two subbasal transverse zigzag black double lines joined in the middle by a short streak, the outer line having a longitudinal pointed black-centred mark, forming a spear-head ; orbicular and reniform marks black-centred ; a transverse discal double row and a submarginal line of dusky lu- |