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Show 68 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10, H. EFFLORESCENS, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 77. II. ROSTRATA, Fabr. (Guen. ib. p. 74). II. SUBSATURA, Guen. ib. p. 7o. Fam. CATOCALID.E. Genus CATOCALA, Ochs. CATOCALA NEPCHA, n. sp. Fore wing ferruginous brown ; basal half with irregular-shaped black marks ; a square white spot closing the cell, adjoining which is a narrow transverse white band bordered within with black ; a sub-marginal series of triangular black spots ; and a marginal series of black lunules with grey inner borders ; cilia greyish brown: hind wing ochreous yellow, with broad black marginal band ; cilia greyish brown, spotted with greyish white. Underside-fore wing yellow at the base ; the rest black, with a broad medial large white patch and a smaller one beneath it at the posterior angle : hind wing as above, but with a broad white medial patch having a black inner streak from anterior margin. Antennae yellow. Head black. Thorax ferruginous brown. Abdomen yellow, with dorsal and lateral row of blackish-brown spots. Expanse 2| inches. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. Grote, Esq. C. DOTATA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1212. Fam. OPHIDERID^E. Genus OPHIDERES, Boisd. O P H I D E R E S MATERNA, Linn. (Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 1/4. f. B, pl. 267. f. E). O. FULLONICA, Linn. (Guen. Noct. iii. p. 111). Noctua dioscorece, Fab. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 212. Phalcena-Noctua pomona, Cram. pl. 77. f. C. O. CAJETA, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pl. 3. f. A-C. O. SALAMINIA, Cram. ib. ii. pl. 174. f. A. O. HYPERMNESTRA, Cram. ib. iv. pl. 323. f. A, B. O. PLANA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1226. Fam. PllYLLODlDyE. Genus PHYLLODES, Boisd. P H Y L L O D E S CONSOBRINA, Westw*. Cab. Orient. Ent. pl. 28 f 2 P. USTULATA, Westw. ib. pl. 28. f. 1. |