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Show 620 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, Genus ANGERONA. A N G E R O N A PALLICOSTARIA, n. sp. Male greenish grey : fore wing with the exterior margin broadly ashy black, bordered within with blackish fleckles, which are also dispersed along the posterior margin on a reddish ground ; two short yellow streaks from the posterior angle ; reniform mark distinct: hind wing ashy black, somewhat whitish basally, with a broad yellowish anal band. Head, thorax, and abdomen greenish grey, the latter fleckled with black. Underside paler; both wings minutely speckled with black on their basal half; each with a rather large black discal spot. Expanse 2 inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus OMIZA, Walk. O M I Z A PACHIARIA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xx. Geom. p. 247. Genus PANISALA, n. g., Moore. Male. Palpi small, compressed, densely pilose ; third joint minute, conical. Antennse very broadly pectinated to near the tips. Legs slender, smooth ; hind tibiae incrassated in the middle, armed with four long spurs. Body slender ; abdomen extending to three-fourths the length of the hind wing. Wings broad : fore wing truncated at the apex ; costa nearly straight; exterior margin very oblique, slightly convex in the middle ; angle rather acute : hind wing subquadrate; exterior margin truncated and concave anteriorly to near the middle, where it is angled, thence to the anal angle nearly straight. PANISALA TRUNCATARIA, n. sp. Male brownish testaceous, darkest exteriorly, minutely black-fleckled : fore wing with two reddish-black transverse oblique subbasal lines, and a double anteriorly bent discal line ; a submarginal row of whitish dark-exterior-bordered lunules, before which on the posterior margin is a whitish patch : hind wing with one subbasal and a double discal reddish-black line, the former parallel with the second line on the fore wing; a submarginal row of white lunules with black exterior borders. Both wings with a small black discal spot. Expanse 2f inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus EURYMENE, Dup. EURYMENE INUSTARIA, n. Sp. Female yellow : both wings covered with transverse narrow partly confluent ferruginous strigse, which are darkest on the middle of the posterior margin upward, whence there is an outwardly oblique pale-bordered streak extending towards the apex ; a small blackish |