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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 643 H. ORNATA, n. Sp. Male greyish fawn-colour: exterior margin of both wings excavated below the apex and produced in the middle : fore wing with three transverse bright crimson-streaked and -bordered yellow wavy bands, which are broad at the costa and attenuate to the hind margin, the first and second bands contiguous and hardly separable, each somewhat blackish-bordered : hind wing with slight crimson basal band and outer yellow-spotted crimson wavy band with blackish inner border; an indistinct discal blackish spot and contiguous line. Abdomen with a reddish waist-band. Underside cinereous brown, with ill-defined paler bands as above. Expanse 1\ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. H. ? PLURISTRIGATA, n. Sp. Cinnamon-brown; exterior margin sinuous: fore wing with two straight transverse medial and a narrow basal pale yellow bands with short transverse similar-coloured intervening streaks : hind wing with a single medial transverse yellow band and basal streaks : both wings with some orange-yellow submarginal streaks. Cilia pale yellow. Underside paler ; markings less defined and whitish. Expanse -£ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus ACIDALIA, Treit. A C I D A L I A BICAUDATA, n. sp. (Pl. XXXIII. fig. 12.) Male and female white : a transverse discal narrow wavy blackish-margined ferruginous band, with confluent fuliginous-brown exterior margin/which is slightly blackish-streaked, and having a black medial marginal dot on hind wing; a row of small dark brown transverse subbasal spots, and a few short strigse on base of costa of fore wing. Palpi and front of head dark brown. Cilia white, with brown patches on fore wing. Hind wing bicaudate anteriorly. Expanse 1 inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. A. ,-ERATA, n. sp. Male and female brassy yellow, with broad basal and marginal cinereous-brown bands with intervening cinereous speckles. Cilia broad, yellow. Antennse, head, and front of thorax, abdomen, and legs yellow; thorax cinereous. Underside as above. Expanse 1 inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. A. TEPHROSARIA, n. Sp. Male very pale whitish testaceous, with numerous short transverse narrow pale brown strigse : fore wing with three equidistant black spots on the costa, from the outer of which proceed a trans- |