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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 631 pale yellowish ; the markings less apparent, and with a large apical patch on the fore wing, are dark cinereous. Legs with cinereous spots. Expanse If- inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. B. CONTIGUATA, n. Sp. Male greyish white; with two transverse subbasal blackish-cinereous sinuous lines, and four exterior broader lines, the two outer separated by a white sinuous line; a medial sinuous line enclosing a whitish discal spot; a marginal row of blackish lunules. Abdomen with cinereous bands. Underside with large blackish discal spot, and broad submarginal band, which joins the exterior margin in the middle. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. Remark.-Allied to B. propulsaria, Walk., from Borneo. B. COMBUSTARIA. Gnophos combust aria, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B . M . xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1598. Darjeeling. Genus TEPHROSIA, Boisd. TEPHROSIA SCRIPTARIA, Walk. ib. p. 1590. Darjeeling. T. COMPARATAR1A. Boarmia comparataria, Walk. ib. p. 1582. Darjeeling. T. MUCIDARIA. Boarmia mucidaria, Walk. ib. p. 1581. Darjeeling. T. DENTILINEATA, n. sp. Male and female cinereous white, minutely brown-speckled : fore wing with a subbasal transverse oblique row of three or four small dark brown spots, and a discal partly double interrupted row of dentiform marks; a small discal spot; a submarginal pale sinuous brown-bordered line twice streaked with dark brown at the apex on the inner side: hind wing with small dark brown discal spot, adjacent line to abdominal margin, and transverse discal sinuous line; a sub-marginal pale line with brown borders. Both wings with an exterior marginal row of blackish lunules. Underside paler, without markings. Expanse 1\ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. |