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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 625 Body rather stout. Wings moderate : fore wing slightly falcate at the tip; costa nearly straight; exterior margin sinuous below the apex, oblique hindward ; posterior margin slightly convex : hind wing rounded exteriorly; outer margin slightly sinuous anteriorly. COROTIA CERVINARIA, n. Sp. (Pl. XXXII. fig. 10.) Male and female pinkish fawn-colour, thinly and minutely transversely black-fleckled : fore wing with a broad medial oblique transverse pale chestnut-brown band, the borders with a whitish dot on each vein, enclosing a large grey discal spot; two or three marginal black spots below the apex : hind wing with a dusky discal spot and outer tansverse line. Underside greyish fawn-colour, black-fleckled; discal spots distinct, blackish; transverse line pale-bordered : hind wing with marginal black dots, those on the fore wing being at the apex only. Shaft of antennse yellowish, with black spots. Expanse If inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. Fam. AMPHIDASYD^E. Genus AMPHIDASYS. A M P H I D A S Y S BENGALIARIA, Guen. Phal. i. p. 210. Silhet. Genus BUZURA, Walk. B U Z U R A M U L T I P U N C T A R I A , Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxvi. p.1531. Larva feeds on Citrus and Cinnamomum.-A. Grote. Fam. BOARMIDJE. Genus AMBLYCHIA, Guen. AMBLYCHIA ANGERONARIA, Guen. Phal. i. p. 215, pl. 4. f. 9. Genus HEMEROPHILA, Steph. HEMEROPHILA CREATARIA, Guen. ib. p. 217. Darjeeling. H. STRIXARIA, Guen. ib. p. 217. Silhet. H. MAURARIA, Guen. ib. p. 218. Elphos parisnathi, Walk. Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. Geom. p. 1545. H. OBJECTARIA. Boarmia objectaria,Via\k. ib. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1583. Darjeeling. |