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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 85 cinereous brown. Underside fuliginous brown : fore wing with two white-marked black subapical dots and indistinct transverse discal band : hind wing with a more distinct discal spot and outer curved band. Expanse 1| inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson; F. Moore. H. LONGIPENNIS, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiv. Suppl. iv. p. 1139. Darjeeling. Fam. HERMINID.-E. Genus HERMINIA, Latr. HERMINIA HADENALIS, n. sp. Male greyish brown : fore wing with two medial transverse black-speckled- bordered pale lines, a round black orbicular dot, and a triangular reniform spot; the inner line nearly straight, the outer recurved and at each end with an exterior black patch ; a black zigzag submarginal line and a marginal row of dots: hind wing with indistinct blackish pale-bordered streaks from anal angle ; a marginal row of black dots. Underside paler, with indistinct dark transverse sinuous pale-bordered lines and blackish discal spot; a row of marginal lunules. Palpi and legs dark brown. Expanse 1-f^ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. H. OCHRACEALIS, n. sp. Female ochraceous, palest exteriorly: fore wing with a medial transverse subdued dusky band, which passes over an indistinct reniform spot; a similar submarginal band extending to the apex and passing through a black subapical spot; between the bands is a recurved series of black dots ; exterior margin with a row of black dots : hind wing pale ochraceous white, with a narrow upper and a diffused lower blackish streak from above the anal angle; a narrow blackish lunular marginal line ; cilia ochraceous. Abdomen dusky, with narrow white segmental bands; tip ochraceous. Underside ochraceous, black-speckled : fore wing dusky at the base ; a black discal and subapical spot, and transverse sinuous line : hind wing with black discal spot, transverse sinuous line, and outer row of spots. Expanse If inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson; F. Moore. H. ? ALBIRENALIS, 11. Sp. Male and female black brown : fore wing with three indistinct black medial transverse bands with chalybeate white-speckled borders, the outer borders sinuous and more prominently speckled; reniform spot white; a white-speckled zigzag submarginal line; a speckled patch below the apex, and a few speckles along the anterior margin: hind wing paler, with short indistinct black sinuous bands |
