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Show 78 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10, Genus AZAZIA, Walk. AZAZIA RUBRICANS. Ophiusa rubricans, Boisd. (Guen. Noct. iii. p. 356). Azazia rubricans, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xy. p. 1576. Thermesia transducta, WTalk. ib. xxxiii. Suppl. iii. p. 1058. Genus SELENIS, Guen. Syn. Mestleta, Walk. SELENIS IRRECTA, Walk. ib. p. 1066. Selenis niviapex, Walk, ib, p. 1069. S. ABRUPTA. Mestleta abrupta, Walk. ib. p. 829. Larva feeds on Zizyphus, apparently only on the flowers.-A. Grote, Esq. Genus MARMORINIA, Guen. MARMORINIA SINGHA, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 372. Silhet. M. SHIVULA, Guen. ib. p. 372. Silhet. Genus MECODINA, Guen. MECODINA LANCEOLA, Guen. ib. p. 373. Silhet. Genus SINGARA, Walk. SlNGARA DIVERSALIS, Walk. 1. C. p. 1113. Silhet. Genus HYPERNARIA, Guen. IIYPERNARIA DISCISTRIGA, n. sp. Female dull yellowish ferruginous, brownish apically, minutely irrorated with blackish scales : fore wing with an oblique brown line crossing both wings from the apex to the middle of abdominal margin, the line bordered within with ferruginous and a pale inner margin ; three short costal diffused dusky streaks, and lunulated discal mark, before the latter is a black dot. Head and front of thorax blackish. Underside brighter-coloured, with two oblique lunulated dusky lines crossing both wings. Expanse 2f inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Remark.-This insect has much the appearance of Ophisma attacicola, Walk. Cat. Lep. B. M. p. 1383. |