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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 91 ill-defined spots at the base ; a quadrate spot at the end of the cell, two larger spots beyond it, one being below the latter, and some outer very small indistinctly defined spots and a wavy marginal line, all the interspaces being dark brown : hind wing with a dark brown discal spot, and a marginal band enclosing a large anterior spot and smaller lower spots ; cilia alternate white and brown. Palpi above, head, and thorax brown. Abdomen with narrow white segmental bands. Underside paler. Palpi beneath and legs white. Fore tibiae brown. Expanse 1 inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. Fam. SPILOMELID^E. Genus LEPYRODES. LEPYRODES GEOMETRALIS, Guen. Delt. et Pyral. p. 278. L. LEPIDALIS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 465. L. PERSPICUALIS. Zebronia perspicualis, Walk. I. c. xxxiv. Suppl. iv. p. 1347. Botys flexissimalis, Walk. ib. p. 1426. Darjeeling (W. S. Atkinson). Genus PYCNARMON, Lederer. PYCNARMON JAGUARALIS. Spilomela jaguaralis, Guen. Delt. et Pyral. p. 283. Zebronia jaguaralis, Walk. ib. xvii. p. 486. Pycnarmon jaguaralis, Lederer, Wien. ent. Monat. vii. p. 441, t. 17. f. 11. Darjeeling (TV. S. Atkinson). P. ABRAXALIS. Zebronia abraxalis, Walk. I. c. xxxiv. Suppl. iv. p. 1349. Darjeeling (TV. S. Atkinson). P. ZEBRALIS, n. sp. (Pl. VII. fig. 12.) Male and female white : fore wing with eleven transverse narrow black bands ; cilia white : hind wing pale yellow, diffused with orange-colour externally; two black basal streaks and three equidistant exterior spots, one being at the anterior angle, another above the anal angle, and the third midway between them ; a white submarginal line; a black spot on cilia at the apex ; cilia pale ferruginous. Thorax black-streaked. Abdomen pale ferruginous, with black sub-terminal spots. Underside paler, marked as above. Legs and palpi white, with black spots. Expanse 1-j2^ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. |