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Show 84 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jan. 10, the shaft. Underside pale brown ; discal spot, outer transverse line, and marginal dots less defined than above. Expanse 1 inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. H. CASTANEALIS, n. Sp. Male and female dull chestnut-brown : fore wing suffused with chalybeous, with two oblique medial transverse chalybeous-brown lines bordered by a chalybeate outer line, the inner line zigzag, the outer bent outward before its middle ; a submarginal row of indistinct black spots with chalybeous outer borders; a chalybeous streak before the apex, and a similar patch at the posterior angle : hind wing and abdomen cinereous brown ; marginal line darker. Palpi, front of head, legs, and costa beneath ochreous. Underside-fore wing cinereous brown : hind wing greyish brown. Expanse 1^ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. II. RECTIV1TTALIS, 11. Sp. Female pale testaceous : fore wing with numerous short delicate brown transverse strigse; a distinct brown straight transverse sub-marginal narrow double band ; a small black-marked white orbicular spot. Front of head and tuft of palpi above hoary. Palpi brown. Cilia brown. Underside paler, minutely speckled. Expanse 1 inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. H. BASISTRIGALIS, 11. Sp. Male and female greyish brown ; exterior border of fore wing white-speckled: fore wing with a large cupreous-brown patch, the outer border of which has a double white marginal line commencing from the costa one-third from the apex, curving obliquely towards the exterior margin, where it is much bent, and then retracting to the posterior margin one-third from the angle, where it meets a white streak recurved from the base of the costa; a brown streak from the angle of the patch to the apex ; a submarginal series of indistinct white-speckled spots ; indistinct blackish orbicular and reniform spots. Underside paler : fore wing with an indistinct darker discal spot, and a white dot at the apex: hind wing brown-speckled, with a discal spot and paler outer line. Expanse If inch. Cherra Poonjee ; Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. II. DIVISALIS, n. sp. Female. Fore wing dark chestnut-brown'; exterior border fawn-colour, with a transverse discal narrow slightly bent purple-white line, having a diffused pale purplish-pink outer border ; a submarginal row of indistinct w hite-speckled black spots ; a short recurved indistinct pale purplish-white streak from the base of the wing ; an indistinct dusky streak below the apex : hind wing and abdomen |