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Show 618 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, D. TRILINEARIA, n. Sp. Male and female whitish cinereous ; three brown-bordered white lines obliquely from the apex to abdominal margin : fore wing brownish from the costa and across the disk, and with a slight discal dot. Underside paler, yellowish apically : fore wing dusky basally; the transverse lines slightly apparent. Expanse 1\ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. D. QUINARIA, n. Sp. Male white, minutely speckled with cinereous ; five cinereous lunular lines crossing both wings, the first and second contiguous and disposed obliquely across the middle of the wing, the others sub-marginal, the outer two being very narrow and also contiguous; a cinereous marginal line with white points. Palpi, front of head, and antennse brownish yellow. Expanse lg inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. D. FENESTRARIA, n. Sp. Male whitish cinereous; two widely separated wavy brown lines from abdominal margin to costa before the apex, between which on the fore wing is a diaphanous spot crossed by two veins; a submarginal and marginal row of white lunules, the former being concave exteriorly, the latter interiorly and bordered by a brown marginal line. Expanse 1T\ inch. Bengal. In Coll. F. Moore. Genus DECETIA, Walk. D E C E T I A CAPETUSARIA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xx. Geom. p. 233. Silhet. Genus A G N I D R A , n. g., Moore. Fascellina, part., Walk. Cat. Suppl. p. 1553. Male. Palpi small, erect, pilose beneath ; second joint long; third joint small, conical. Head broad. Antennse rather broadly bipec-tinated to within one-fourth of the tip. Legs moderate ; femora slightly pilose beneath, and tibiae at the side; fore tibiee thickly pilose ; mid tibiae with a pair and hind tibiae with two pairs of apical spurs. Wings broad: fore wing falcated; costa slightly arched before the apex, posterior angle rather acute : apex and anal angle of hind wing slightly pointed ; exterior margin convex ; abdominal margin elongated. Abdomen rather short, extending to within one-third of the hind wing, tufted at the apex. AGNIDRA SPECULARIA. (Pl. XXXII. fig. 2.) Fascellina specularia, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1553. ' |