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Show ' 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 81 Genus AMPHIGONIA, Guen. A M P H I G O N I A COMPRIMENS,Walk.Cat. Lep. Het. B.M.xv. p. 1540. Silhet. Tribe D E L T O I D E S. Fam. PLATYDID^E. Genus EPISPARIS, WTalk. Cat. x. p. 476 (1856). Syn. Neviasca, Walk. (185S); Pradiota, Walk* (1866). EPISPARIS VARIALIS. Neviasca varialis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xvi. Delt. p. 7. Epispai-is signata, Walk. ib. xxxiii. Suppl. iii. p. 1032. E. SEJUNCTALIS. Pradiota sejunctaria, Walk. ib. xxxiv. Suppl. iv. p. 1572. P. ennomocoides, Walk. M S . B.M. Coll. E. TORTUOSALIS, n. sp. (Pl. VII. fig. 5.) Male purplish brown above, greyish brown anteriorly ; numerously marked with short narrow black strigse : fore wing with two medial transverse dark purple-brown narrow bands, the inner one bent outwardly in the middle, the exterior band broadly elbowed outwards and then retracting to the costa ; both bands with a narrow whitish-outer- bordered line ; between the bands is a very small indistinct white-bordered black "orbicular" spot and a narrow white "reniform " lunule ; before the apex are two transverse narrow whitish lines with ill-defined dark bands between them, all retracting to the costa : hind wing with an irregular transverse whitish submarginal line, the space posteriorly between which and the exterior margin is ferruginous; a dark medial indistinct band. Underside greyish brown, narrow transverse strigse numerous and distinct: fore wing with a dark chocolate-brown interiorly angled apical patch, with a whitish-bordered line ; proceeding from the angle is an indistinct whitish streak to the base of the wing ; orbicular spot white; reniform lunule with a black centre: hind wing with a whitish medial space, within which is a prominent black discal spot. Abdomen white at the base beneath. Middle tarsi white. Hind legs partly white. Expanse 2£ inches. Bengal (Sherwill). In Coll. F. Moore. Fam. HYPENID^E. Genus DICHROMIA, Guen. D I C H R O M I A OROSIALIS, Cram. Pap. Exot. pl. 275. f. D. D. TRIPLICATES, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. Delt. p. 16. Darjeeling. PROC. ZOOL, Soc-1867, No. VI. |