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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 639 markings. Body beneath, antennse, and legs yellowish. Front of head reddish. Expanse 1^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. C. FENESTRARIA, n. Sp. Male very pale golden-yellow: both wings with a pale brown-bordered oblique subbasal double line, which extends by a short black streak on the costa and curves widely outward and then descends to the posterior angle, the middle of the wing being irregularly hyaline and marked only by a minute discal spot; a submarginal silvery-white line and two outwardly oblique silvery fascise from the costa before the apex; two small brown streaks on abdominal margin and another below the discal spot. Underside as above, but paler. Expanse 1-| inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. C. CHALYBEATA, n. Sp. Male pale green, with several delicate pale white short transverse strigse : fore wing with two pale chalybeate upright transverse medial lines, which indistinctly cross the hind wing and conjoin in a slight crimson streak at the anal angle ; base of fore wing and exterior border of both wings suffused with chalybeous. Costal margin and band across thorax and antennse pale ochreous. Front of head and palpi beneath whitish. Palpi above pale pinkish ochreous. Underside pale greenish chalybeate-white. Expanse lT\j- inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. Genus AGATHIA, Guen. AGATHIA LYCiENARiA. Geometra lyccenaria, Kollar, Hiigel's Reis. Kasch. iv. p. 486. G. albiangularia, Herr.-Schseff. Samml. exot. Schmett. pl. 61. f. 339. 5 . Agathia discriminata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. Geom. p. 591. " Larva feeds on Nerium odorum and Strophanthus dichotomus.'3 A. HEMITHEARIA, Guen. Phal. i. p. 381. Silhet. A. HILARATA, Guen. Phal. i. p. 381. Silhet. A. CATENARIA, Walk. I. c. p. 591. Larva feeds on Nerium oleander.-A. Grote, Esq. A. auiNARiA, n. sp. Male bright green, white beneath ; bands reddish fawn-colour: |