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Show 626 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, H. CUPREARIA, n. Sp. Male greyish black, with a cupreous tinge : fore wing with transverse curved subbasal and straight discal sinuous black lines ; a black discal ringlet; a coppery-yellow submarginal line, which is straight hindward and wavy to the apex, adjoining which are some broad black lunules ; a black wavy marginal line : hind wing with a blackish sinuous discal line, a small spot, and wavy marginal line ; a submarginal coppery-yellow line similar to that on the fore wing. Head and thorax greyish black. Antennae brown. Underside pale greyish black, darkest along exterior margins ; discal line and spot and marginal line black. Expanse lj8^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. H. NIGRO VITTATA, n. Sp. Male pale testaceous brown, with numerous short transverse black strigse: both wings with a black subbasal transverse line, rather straight on the hind wing, and wavy on the fore wing, in the middle of which it is joined by a broad black longitudinal streak proceeding to the base of the posterior margin ; a very oblique transverse discal sinuous black line, which is bent before the apex and broadly bordered exteriorly to near the apex by blackish brown ; a submarginal white line, which is rather straight hindward and sinuous forward, where there is a short white longitudinal streak ; exterior margin with a row of narrow black lunules. Head blackish ; thorax and abdomen blackish-streaked. Antennse blackish; shaft luteous, black-speckled. Underside paler, with indistinct blackish-brown subbasal line, discal spot, and'broad submarginal band, the latter touching the exterior margin below the apex. Legs blackish, with yellow spots. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A E. Russell. H. BASISTRIGARIA, 11. Sp. Male and female pale ferruginous brown, with numerous short very thin black transverse strigse, which at the basal third of the wings are thicker, more or less confluent, forming exteriorly transverse bands ; a black discal dot; beyond the middle is a transverse pale-bordered black line, irregular on the fore wing and sinuous on the hind wing, exterior to which the strigse are more or less confluent ; a submarginal irregular interrupted pale line and a black marginal lunulated line; cilia blackish, with a pale inner line. Expanse 1^- inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. H. INTERRUPTARIA, n. Sp. Male and female greyish testaceous, palest along the costal border-with numerous black narrow short transverse strigse ; blotched with brighter testaceous : fore wing with oblique exteriorly greyish-bor- |