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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 641 A. PLYNusARiA,Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. Geom. xxvi. p. 1581. Silhet. A. HYRIARIA, Walk. ib. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1617. Darjeeling. A. SANGUINARIA, n. Sp. Male yellow: fore wing with several confluent crimson blotches and speckles at the base, and two larger submarginal blotches with contiguous confluent speckles to exterior margin; discal spot and largest blotches tinged with purple : hind wing speckled with crimson, and with larger blotches along exterior and abdominal margins; a purplish discal ringlet; a band on front of head and on thorax and base of abdomen crimson. Underside paler. Expanse 1^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. A. PALLIVITTATA, n. Sp. Male and female pale yellowish testaceous, minutely blackish-speckled : fore wing with a testaceous discal spot and four obliquely transverse rather indistinct lunular lines, the third and fourth lines submarginal; the second, third, and fourth extending across the hind wing, the third with a parallel inner row of blackish spots; a marginal row of dark spots ; cilia with a dark inner spot at the marginal angles. Palpi, front of head, and pectinations of male antennse black. Underside paler, marked as above. Expanse 2 inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. A. SIMILARIA, n. Sp. Male pale brownish cinereous, minutely but densely black-speckled: fore wing with an indistinct darker discal spot and four oblique bands, the two outer bands being submarginal, which with the third extends across the hind wing; both wings with a sinuous discal testaceous line, which has two small outer testaceous patches: a dentiform discal spot with testaceous border on hind wing: both wings with a marginal row of blackish spots ; cilia black-speckled, and having a black inner spot at the marginal angles. Underside paler; discal sinuous line and spot on hind wing distinct; a well-defined dark marginal line ; cilia with blackish spots. Expanse 1\ inch. Bengal. In Coll. F. Moore. A. DIFFUSARIA, n. Sp. Male yellow, with thickly disposed crimson speckles and striga?. Both wings with a diffused testaceous-grey transverse discal streak with sinuous outer border and black points, from the middle of which proceeds a similar-coloured streak, which descends inwardly across the base of hind wing and the abdomen, and outwardly to the middle of exterior margin : an oblique subbasal indistinct testaceous-grey |