OCR Text |
Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 623 Genus ENNOMOS, Treit. ENNOMOS VIRIDATA, n. sp. Female pale green: fore wing with three transverse pale brown lines, the first subbasal, the second beyond a small blackish discal ringlet, the third or outer line very oblique and joining the second at its base on the middle of posterior margin ; a submarginal row of blackish partly confluent spots, and marginal dots : hind wing with a transverse line passing through the discal spot, and a medial outer sinuous line; exterior margin with a row of black dots and some short transverse delicate black strigse. Cilia blackish. Exterior margin of hind wing slightly sinuous, produced and sharply angled in the middle. Expanse 2g inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. E. TESTACEARIA, n. sp. Male and female testaceous, minutely black-speckled: both wings with a transverse curved subbasal ill-defined blackish sinuous line and an oblique broader discal line, beyond which is a transverse series of black dots, and an irregular submarginal row of broad diffused dusky-speckled lunules. Some white irregular speckles exterior to the discal line on fore wing. A small black discal spot on each wing. Exterior margin of hind wing scalloped. Expanse 2\ inches. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. GAR^EUS, n. g., Moore. Male. Palpi suberect, compressed, projecting beyond the front of the head, pilose; third joint cylindrical, decumbent. Antennae bipectinated. Legs slender, smooth; hind tibiae with four apical spurs. Body robust; thorax broad. Abdomen extending to the angle of the hind wing. Wings moderate : fore wing with the costa elongated, slightly arched at the base and apex, falcated; exterior margin oblique, rounded, scalloped ; posterior margin nearly straight: hind wing rather broad, extending to the posterior angle of the fore wing ; exterior margin rounded, deeply scalloped. GAR^EUS SPECULARIS, n. sp. (Pl. XXXII. fig. 3.) Male bright ferruginous, with cinereous-black short transverse basal strigse and exterior speckles ; a diffused cinereous-black oblique discal band and a less-defined submarginal line crossing both wings; a similar-coloured narrow indistinct band near the base of the wing; middle of both wings yellowish-streaked, the fore wing having a black discal spot and two lower small white semitransparent spots contiguous to the outer band : hind wing with two white semitransparent medial spots, the upper spot being very large and enclosing a black discal spot; two smaller less-distinct whitish submarginal spots. |