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Show 64 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10, Fam. GONOPTERID.E. Genus COSMOPHILA, Boisd. COSMOPHILA XANTHINDYMA, Boisd. (Guen. Noct. ii. p. 396). Cirrccdia variolosa, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xii. p. 750. Larva feeds on Hibiscus.-A. Grote, Esq. Genus ANOMIS, Hiibn. ANOMIS FULVIDA, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 397. A. GUTTANIVIS. Gonitis guttanivis,'Wa\k. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1003. Genus OSSONOBA, Walk. OSSONOBA TORPIDA, Walk. ib. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1966. Remark.-The genus Ossonoba is closely allied to Scoliopteryx, Germ. (Gonoptera, Latr.). Fam. AMPHIPYRID^-E. Genus AMPHIPYRA, Ochs. AMPHIPYRA MONOLITHA, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 414. Genus N^ENIA, Steph. N^NIA CUPREA, 11. Sp. Male blackish cupreous brown, chalybeate-washed : fore wing with three or four short coppery-red costal bars with black borders ; costal and discoidal vein coppery red ; orbicular and reniform marks with a narrow yellowish border, the space before each aud spot beneath black ; one basal and two medial irregular transverse lunulated double black lines ; a submarginal and a wavy marginal coppery line, the former bordered within by a row of broad black lunules : hind wing pale cupreous brown. Head and thorax blackish brown varied with ferruginous. Abdomen greyish brown, tips ferruginous. Cilia of hind wing pale ferruginous. Expanse 2g inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. N. CHALYBEATA, n. sp. Female blackish cupreous brown : fore wing with numerous chalybeate speckles ; the discal veins lined with chalybeous ; a basal and subbasal zigzag chalybeate line, a discal and submarginal lunulated chalybeate line, each with a dark border; exterior margin chalybeous ; orbicular and reniform marks dark, centred with chalybeate speckles, reniform mark large and with a copper-coloured border : hind wing dull pale cupreous brown, with a narrow whitish marginal |