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Show 70 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10, line, the interspace with a white discal dot, and in some specimens partly suffused with pale purplish white ; a dark irregular submarginal ill-defined band which is medially confluent with the exterior margin, bordered without by a transverse sinuous black line ; a marginal row of white-marked black dots : hind wing greyish cupreous brown, with decreasing pale ferruginous-brown black-bordered anal streaks, and marginal blackish white-marked dots ; cilia ferruginous brown, with pale inner line. Underside dull ferruginous brown. Both wings with two transverse indistinct discal bands; a marginal row of black dots. Expanse 2^ inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. S. RECTILINEA, 11. Sp. Male dark testaceous brown : fore wing with a medial darker brown oblique transverse band, straightly bordered on each side by a double slightly wavy white line, the outer line interrupted by a constricted reniform white mark ; basal line white, indistinct; an irregular sub-marginal ill-defined dark band bordered without by a blackish sinuous line ; a marginal row of white slightly black-marked dots : hind wing with a broad submarginal blackish decreasing band and two narrow inner lines ; a marginal row of black-marked white dots; cilia with pale inner line. Underside with broad submarginal diffused dusky band, and inner pale-bordered black inner band ; a pale-bordered black discal spot on hind wing ; a marginal row of black dots. Expanse 2§ inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. S. CYANIVITTA, 11. Sp. Male dark ferruginous brown: fore wing with an oblique transverse bluish-grey band, bordered on each side by a pale line, the outer line broken by a narrow reniform mark ; subbasal line indistinct ; an ill-defined transverse submarginal greyish-brown band irregularly bordered exteriorly by a black sinuous line; a narrow marginal bluish-grey sinuous line, the inner points being but slightly tipped with black : hind wing greyish cupreous brown, with a slight short white-bordered black streak from anal angle, and a narrow wavy marginal line ; ciiia ferruginous brown. Underside uniform brown. Expanse 2§ inches. Bengal (Sherwill). In Coll. F. Moore. Genus TAVIA, Walk. TAVIA SUBSTRUENS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. xiv. p. 1276. T. P U N C T O S A , Walk. ib. xxxiii. Suppl. iii. p. 939. T. DUBITARIA, Walk. ib. p. 939. T. CALIGINOSA, Walk. ib. p. 940, |