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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 67 testaceous : fore wing streaked with black on posterior margin; broad transverse discal and submarginal blackish bands : hind wing with discal spot, an irregular sinuous narrow medial and broad sub-marginal band ; exterior border of both wings with short longitudinal blackish streaks and marginal row of dots; cilia as above. Expanse 2f inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Remark.-This insect is very much like Achcea subsignata, from Sierra Leone. Genus ANOPHIA, Guen. ANOPHIA ACRONYCTOIDES, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 47. Genus ERYGIA, Guen. Syn. Calicula, Walk. ERYGIA APICALIS, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 50. Calicula exempta, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1808. Genus ODONTODES, Guen. ODONTODES BOLINOIDES. Briada bolinoides, Walk. ib. Noct. p. 1802. Steiria subf asciata, Walk. ib. Suppl. iii. p. 922. S. quadristrigata, Walk. ib. p. 923. 1 inordinate, MS. B. M. Cabinet. Genus STICTOPTERA, Guen. STICTOPTERA ILLUCIDA, Walk. /. c. p. 918. Calcutta (W. S. Atkinson). S. GRISEA, n. sp. Male greyish brown: fore wing speckled with grey at the base, medially, and along exterior margin; orbicular and reniform marks black; a black spot below and a transverse wavy line beyond the former, and a similar line beyond the latter, exterior to which is a submarginal recurved interrupted series of grey inner-bordered black lunules, and a marginal row of blacker lunulated spots : hind wing diaphanous, purplish grey, with a broad marginal brown band. Head and collar on thorax ferruginous brown; thorax greyish brown. Abdomen brown. Expanse If inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson. Fam. HYPOCALID^E. Genus HYPOCALA, Guen. HYPOCALA DEFLORATA, Fabr. (Guen. Noct. iii. p. 76). |