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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 79 Genus FASCELLINA, Walk. FASCELLINA CHROMATARIA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. Geometr. p. 215. Ngsis lata,Wa\k. MS. B. M. Coll. F. VIRIDIS, n. sp. (Pl. VII. fig. 4.) Female green, paler beneath, the hind wing being yellow: fore wing with a discal spot, oblique streak beneath, and a broad exterior patch from below the apex brown, the latter with a cuVved transverse discal narrow ferruginous-brown chain-like band : hind wing with a straight transverse band and a narrow curved discal line of ferruginous brown. Head and thorax green. Abdomen pale ferruginous brown. Underside-both wings basally and the hind wing exteriorly minutely striated with purplish brown : fore wing with an exterior dark purple-brown patch having a small yellow spot near posterior angle, along its inner margin is a transverse narrow black-bordered silvery lunulated line terminating before the costa : hind wing with a straight purple-brown band and curved line as above. Expanse ly^- inch. Bengal. In Coll. F. Moore. Fam. FOCILLID^E. Genus ZETHES, Ramb. Z E T H E S X Y L O C H R O M A , Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1525. Silhet. Z. PERTURBANS, Walk. ib. p. 1525. Silhet. Genus PHALACRA, Walk. PHALACRA METAGONARIA, Walk. ib. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1639. Larva in strong web in rolled leaf. Feeds on dates.-A. Grote, Eeq. Genus THYRIDOSPILA, Guen. THYRIDOSPILA SPHTERIPHORA, n. sp. Female greyish fawn-colour: fore wing with two medial transverse ill-defined black narrow sinuous lines, each curved inward to the costa ; between the bands is a parallel medial diffused blackish line passing the reniform mark ; a triangular reddish-brown patch before the apex, which also descends the submargin ; orbicular and reniform spots semitransparent and yellowish ; orbicular spot with a small attached upper portion ; reniform spot transversely narrow*, bent in the middle and joined at each end to a semicircular blackish line ; a submarginal row of blackish points and marginal row of lunules : hind wing reddish brown exteriorly ; three indistinct narrow* blackish transverse sinuous lines ; cilia edged with grey. Underside |