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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 617 few pink dots also at the base ; a submarginal curved series of small dark red spots. Head, thorax, and abdomen pink. Expanse 2\ inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus AUZEA, Walk. AuZEA APICATA, n. Sp. Male dark greyish chestnut-colour, palest hindward; minutely black-speckled: fore wing with an oblique pale line from the apex to middle of posterior margin; costa before the pale line with two outwardly oblique short dark streaks : hind wing with a medial pale line, which is blackish, wavy, blotched, and white-lunulated by the abdominal margin: both wings with a black discal dot, and fore wing with a short transverse black lunule below the cell. Female much paler, somewhat testaceous, less black-speckled, but with the markings more apparent. Antennse in male slightly pectinated, in female setose. Expanse, c? If, § If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. A. TORRIDARIA, n. Sp. Female pale testaceous, transversely fleckled with brownish-testaceous exteriorly ; a narrow brown line from near base of abdominal margin to costa before the apex, where there is a short oblique black streak. Underside brighter-coloured exteriorly, the oblique transverse line more apparent. Antennse slightly pectinated. Expanse \\ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Fam. ENNOMID^E. Genus LUXIARIA, Walk. LUXIARIA PHYLLOSARIA. Drepanodes phyllosaria, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. Geom. p. 82. Genus DREPANODES, Guen. D R E P A N O D E S CIRCULITARIA, Walk. ib. xxvi. Geom. p. 1489. D. ARGENTILINEA, 11. Sp. Male pale testaceous yellow : fore wing with a narrow silvery-white band (which is brownish on its inner margin) obliquely from apex to middle of hind margin, bordered exteriorly by one and interiorly by two parallel pale brown bands, each of which cross the hind wing: fore wing with a blackish discal dot. Underside paler yellow ; both wings with a blackish discal dot, and numerous short transverse brown strigse. Antennse minutely pectinated. Expanse li inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1867, No. XL. |