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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 613 U. CROCOPTERATA, Kollar, Hiigel's Reis. Kasch. iv. p. 483. U. RUFIVINCTATA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. Geom. p. 1747. Darjeeling. U. QUADRIPUNCTATA, 11. Sp. Female sulphur-yellow. Both wings with numerous short transverse irregular cinereous streaks; an oblique transverse line, and a reddish discal spot; costa at the base and exterior margins reddish. Palpi, band on head, antennse, and dorsal streak on abdomen reddish. Expanse 11 inch. Bengal. In Coll. F. Moore. U.? FALCATARIA, n. Sp. Male and female very pale greenish white with a silky gloss. Both wings with a cinereous discal spot and four transverse rather indistinct bands, the first and second being medial, the others sub-marginal ; tbe third band joined to the second before reaching the posterior margin: hind wing produced anteriorly, and falcated. Underside paler. Legs blackish above ; a black apical spot on hind tibiae. Expanse 2 inches. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. Genus EUCHERA, Hiibn. Syn. Cyclidia, Guen. E U C H E R A SUBSTIGMARIA, Hiibn. Zutr. Exot. Schmett. f. 519. Cyclidia substigmaria, Guen. Phal. i. p. 63. Abraxas capitata, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiv. Geom. p. 1121. Genus CHORODNA, Walk. CHORODNA EREBUSARIA, Walk. ib. xxi. Geom. p. 314, $. Darjeeling. C. METAPH^EARIA. Cyclidia metaphearia, Walk. ib. xxvi. Geom. p. 1482, cf . Erebomorpha semiclusaria, Walk. ib. p. 1552, cf . Darjeeling. C. PALLIDULARIA, n. Sp. Male yellowish testaceous, thinly and minutely speckled with dark brown ; a blackish-speckled line from abdominal margin before a large black discoidal spot, terminating in a curved series of brown lunules near the middle of the costa, before which latter is an inner similar series of lunules ; an irregular submarginal blackish-testaceous line, wavy and bordered inwardly by a dusky band on the fore wing, |