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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 637 Genus THALASSODES, Guen. THALASSODES INAPTARIA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. Geom. p. 1560. Silhet. T. MACRURARIA, Walk. ib. p. 1561. Silhet. T. MACARIATA, Walk. ib. p. 1562. T. CELATARIA, Walk. ib. xxii. Geom. p. 552. T. DISSIMULATA, Walk. ib. p. 551. Larva feeds on Terminalia catappa.-A. Grote. T. DISTINCTARIA, Walk. ib. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1607. Darjeeling. T. URAPTERARIA, Walk. ib. p. 1608. Silhet. T. DISSITA. Geometra dissita, Walk. ib. xxii. Geom. p. 519. T. OPHTHALMICATA, n. Sp. Female dull greyish green, with a few indistinct yellowish-brown fleckles; a narrow yellowish-brown band crossing the disk of both wings, which on the fore wing is nearly straight, and on the hind wing slightly curved ; a similar-coloured partly upright subbasal line; a small blackish-brown discal spot on fore wing, and a larger brown-bordered grey eye-like discal spot on the hind wing. Underside pale greenish cinereous, with indistinct transverse discal band. Front of head and second joint of palpi above blackish brown. Expanse 1-g- inch. Bengal. In Coll. F. Moore. T. SINUATA, 11. Sp. Female clear grass-green above, whitish beneath : fore wing with the costa whitish; two medial widely separated transverse sinuous purple-red lines, between which is a small blackish discal spot: hind wing with a single similar sinuous outer line and discal spot. Marginal line purple red. Cilia and antennse pale purple red. Expanse 1T 2 ¥ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. Grote, Esq. "Larva feeds on Boswellia serratifolia."-A. Grote, Esq. Genus THALERA, Hiibn. THALERA BIFASCIATA. Thalassodes bifasciata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. Geom. p. 1562. Silhet. |