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Show 88 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10, straight, the outer wavy, both bordered exteriorly with a chalybeous-speckled double band; a chalybeous-speckled black band at the base of the wing, and two similar submarginal wavy bands ; orbicular and reniform spots large, black ; a marginal row of black lunules : hind wing * and abdomen paler ; some whitish-bordered black sinuous streaks from the anal angle ; marginal lunular line blackish. Underside brown : hind wing with two black discal spots and three outer indistinct sinuous bands. Palpi in the male stout, reflexed over the head, extending beyond the thorax, furnished with dense soft hairs along the length resting on the thorax; second and third joints slightly curved, of equal length ; third joint ensiform : in the female slender, squamous, curved upwards ; third joint subulate, nearly as long as the second. Antennse in the male pectinated, the pectinations formed of fascicles of fine bristles ; in the female minutely serrated. Expanse 1-^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. Genus BOCANA, Walk. BOCANA BASALIS, 11. Sp. Female dark fuliginous brown: fore wing with the base dull ferruginous and brown-speckled ; a submarginal row of small yellow spots: hind wing and abdomen pale fuliginous brown. Thorax streaked with ferruginous at the sides in front. Palpi ferruginous, black-speckled. Underside paler ; costa and hind wing whitish-speckled : fore wing with the costa near the apex slightly ferruginous; a short whitish costal streak before the apex: hind wing with dark brown discal spot and two outer whitish-bordered narrow bands. Both wings above and beneath with a black lunular marginal line. Body and legs blackish brown; legs with ferruginous spots. Expanse 1^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. B. VIRIDALIS, n. sp. Female dull green : fore wing thickly black-speckled, the speckles forming some black streaks at the base ; a double wavy transverse line before the middle, and some transverse patches beyond and on the submargin; a black discal spot and a black-speckled white spot near the posterior angle : hind wing and underside dull pale cupreous brown. Legs, thorax beneath, and palpi ochreous white. Expanse If inch. Bengal (Sherwill). In Coll. F. Moore. B. aUADRILINEALIS, 11. Sp. Male brown: fore wing suffused with grey ; four transverse dark brown narrow lines, the first subbasal and nearly upright, the others inwardly oblique; the second line between a black "orbicular" and a " reniform " dot; a submarginal indistinct zigzag brown line : hind wing cupreous brown. Anal tuft pale ochreous. Expanse If inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson. |
