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Show 80 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [J paler, specked with brown : fore wing somewhat ferruginous ; markings as above; the transverse lines with diffused greyish outer borders. Legs grey, brown-speckled. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. Genus PHURYS, Guen. PHURYS OBLIQUA, n. sp. Male brownish fawn-colour : fore wing with a blackish streak obliquely from the apex to the middle of the posterior margin, where it is the widest; two short oblique subbasal reddish-brown streaks, a similar undulating streak bordering each side of the black one, beyond which are two other dusky streaks; a small discal dot and reniform spot reddish brown : hind wing with five transverse dusky brown streaks, the second and fourth pale-bordered ; cilia with a pale inner line. Head and front of thorax reddish brown. Abdomen greyish brown. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. P. STRIGATA, 11. Sp. Female pale yellowish testaceous: fore wing with a narrow pale transverse line broadly bordered externally with brown from before the apex to before the middle of posterior margin, the rest of the wing covered with transverse lines of delicate brown strigse ; a marginal row* of brown dots : hind wing brownish basally, dark brown from the apex, the anal angle with short brown strigae. Underside brighter-coloured, with delicate short strigpe ; both wings with a blackish discal spot and a suffused blackish-brown submarginal band, which on the fore wing branches out to the exterior margin. Expanse 1^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. F. Moore. Genus EGNASIA, Walk. EGNASIA EPHYRODALIS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. Delt. p. 217. E. TRIMANTESALIS, Walk. ib. p. 220. Darjeeling. E. VAGA. Thermesia vaga, Walk. ib. xxxiii. Suppl. iii. p. 1057. Silhet. Fam. AMPHIGONID^E. Genus LACERA, Guen. LACERA CAPELLA, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 337. |