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Show 630 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, Genus BOARMIA, Treit. BOARMIA ALIENARIA,Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. xxi.Geom. p.370. § . Boarmia gelidaria, Walk. ib. xxvi. p. 1537. B. VICARIA, Walk. ib. xxi. Geom. p. 371. Silhet. B. IMPARATA, Walk. ib. p. 372. Darjeeling. B. ALBIDARIA, Walk. ib. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1582. Darjeeling. B. SUBLAVARIA, Guen. Phal. i. p. 256. B. TRISPINARIA, Walk. ib. xxi. Geom. p. 378. Silhet. B. TRANSCISSA, Walk. ib. p. 380. Silhet. B. REPARATA, Walk. ib. p. 380. B. OBLITERATA, 11. Sp. Female greyish white, minutely fleckled with pale brown : fore wing brownish along the costa and from the apex to the middle of exterior margin, beneath which from the angle is a broad lunular streak ; four transverse equidistant very indistinct brownish lunulated lines ; a marginal row of brown lunular spots. Head and front of thorax brownish ; thorax white. Abdomen pale luteous. Underside whiter; a blackish streak below the costa; a large black discal spot, and an apical and posterior patch. Cilia white. Body pale luteous ; legs brownish, with pale spots. Expanse 2\ inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. B. PERSPICUATA, 11. Sp. Male and female pale luteous brown, minutely black-fleckled, most numerous at the base. Male. Fore wing with three obliquely transverse slightly sinuous black lines, the first line curved, the second embracing a discal ringlet, the outer line outwardly bent near each end, the interspaces being somewhat whitish: hind wing with two transverse black lines, between which is a discal spot: both wings with a submarginal medially broad black lunular band with whitish outer border ; a marginal lunular line ; the inner transverse line of the fore wing in the female is hardly separable from the contiguous black fleckles, the next being indicated only by a discal spot extending to tbe costa. Thorax with blackish collar. Abdomen with white waist-band and blackish dorsal bands ; anal tuft in the male yellowish. Underside |
