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Show 1S67.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 621 spot at the apex ; cilia ferruginous ; strigse on the underside crimson, mostly confluent before the apex and on the hind wing. Head and front of thorax blackish. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus ODONTOPTERA, Steph. O D O N T O P T E R A DISCOSPILATA, n. sp. Male and female dark green : both wings with a transverse subbasal and two discal whitish-bordered dark-green lunular lines, the former with the points of the lunules inward, those of the latter being opposite to each other ; each wing with a large black discal spot encircled by a narrow yellow line ; cilia dark brown, edged with white. Palpi and front of head blackish. Thorax and abdomen green, the latter with black dorsal spots. Underside testaceous, with numerous short transverse black strigae; both wings with a transverse black discal band ; cilia black, edged with white. Expanse 2\ inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. Genus SELENIA, Hiibn. SELENIA DECORATA, n. sp. (Pl. XXXII. fig. 9.) Male and female pinkish grey, brightest exteriorly; with numerous minute black speckles: fore wing with a subbasal transverse curved sinuous narrow red line, bordered within by a dark green-fleckled line ; a transverse discal narrow lunular red line bordered exteriorly by red and green lunules, assuming patches below the apex and near the posterior angle : hind wing with a red basal line and transverse discal narrow sinuous line; a lower submarginal straight white line bordered above by green lunules extending to the anterior angle, where the exterior margin is black-lunuled. A black discal spot on each wing. Underside grey, minutely black-speckled; discal spot and transverse lines less defined. Expanse, S 1TV> $ 2 inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. Genus ENDROPIA, Guen. ENDROPIA BASIPUNCTA, n. sp. Male and female dark testaceous red, thinly black-fleckled ; exterior margins sinuous ; a small black-marked white spot near the base of both wings: fore wing with two transverse bands of black fleckles, the first band subbasal, the other medial; a submarginal row of distinct black dots, exterior to which beneath the apex is a black-fleckled patch ; a similar patch at the posterior angle: hind wing with an inner fleckled band and discal sinuous fleckled line. Expanse, $ 1\, $ 1\ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. |
