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Show 1867.]- MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 71 T. ALBiLiNEA,Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. xxxiii. Suppl. iii. p. 940. T. SUBMARGINATA, Walk. ib. p. 941. T. BIOCULARIS, n. sp. Male dark purplish fawn-colour : fore wing with several transverse undulating chalybeous-bordered black lunulated lines ; submarginal points yellowish, black-marked, the lower white ; costal dots yellowish; orbicular spot small, black-bordered, and with whitish centre; reniform spot prominent, circular, composed of black outer border, inner pure-white ring, and orange-yellow centre, and having a white dot above and below it: hind wing purple brown, slightly suffused with chalybeous. Expanse 2 inches. Bengal. Iu Coll. A. E. Russell. T. CATOCALOIDES, 11. Sp. (Pl. VII. fig. 3.) Male ferruginous grey: fore wing with two very undulating transverse double lunulated brown lines-the first subbasal, the other beyond the middle, with the space between ferruginous and covered with short transverse blackish strise; orbicular and reniform marks pale ; a similar-coloured band across the disk, bordered without by a blackish line, which is nearly confluent in the middle with the exterior margin ; submarginal spots large, brownish white and blackish-bordered : hind wing ferruginous yellow, from the base to the middle ferruginous brown, bordered by a black outer band ; a broad sub-marginal discal band, blackish anteriorly, but formed of blackish-ferruginous striae posteriorly; submarginal spots hardly apparent, being replaced by a blackish lunulated line ; cilia interlined. Underside ferruginous yellow : fore wing with three short medially transverse diffused black bands: hind wing with diffused discal and two narrow medial bands and large discal spot black ; submargiual dots black; cilia blackish. Expanse 3 inches. Bengal (Sherwill). In Coll. F. Moore. Genus ANISONEURA, Guen. ANISONEURA SALEBROSA, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 161. Silhet. A. HYPOCYANA, Guen. ib. p. 162. Silhet. Fam. OMMATOPHORID^E. Genus SPEIREDONIA, Hiibn. SPEIREDONIA FEDUCIA, Stoll, Cram. Pap. Exot. Suppl. v. pl. 36. f. 3. Silhet. |