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Show 640 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, fore wing with a transverse basal band, an outwardly oblique hind-ward- bent medial band, and an oblique subapical band, which includes the exterior margin to the posterior angle and extends round a green apical ovate spot: hind wing with outer marginal band running parallel with posterior angle of fore wing, its inner border straight and sinuous and ascending to the abdominal margin above the anal angle ; an elongate oval upper marginal green spot, beneath which is a white streak. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. A. ARCUATA, n. sp. Female bright green, whitish beneath : fore wing with fawn-coloured costa, basal streak, a narrow band from the costa before the middle which crosses to middle of posterior margin, the green space outside attenuated hindward and extending only half across the wing, its exterior border being sinuous, the outer space broadly fawn-coloured ; apical green spot indented anteriorly on both sides; beneath this are two succeeding very small green spots and then a larger yellow spot: hind wing with a broad fawn-coloured margin ; the green space occupying the base from the middle of its anterior margin and descending outward to the middle of the wing and then reascending to near the middle of abdominal margin, its border being sinuous ; a green apical marginal patch and another above anal angle, both being partly divided ; a short narrow yellow streak above the marginal angle. Expanse 1^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Fam. PALYAD^E. Genus EUMELEA, Duncan. EuMELEA ROSALIA. Phal. Geom. rosalia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 368. f. F. Eumelea rosaliata, Duncan, Jardine's Nat. Hist. Libr. Exot. Moths, pl. 29. f. 4. E. FELICIATA, Guen. Phal. i. p. 393. Silhet. E. AURELIATA, Guen. Phal. i. p. 394, pl. 22. f. 6. Fam. EPHYRID^E. Genus ANISODES Guen. ANISODES OBLIVIARIA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. Geom. p. 643. A. PLURISTRIARIA, Walk. ib. xxvi. Geom. p. 1581. |