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Show 644 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, verse oblique series of several black dots bordered exteriorly by a slight brownish line, the inner spots having a similar series of two or three dots ; a medial subdued brownish transverse line contiguous to a similar-coloured discal spot: hind wing with a small discal spot, subdued inner line, and outer transverse row of black dots : both wings with an exterior marginal row of blackish dots. Underside paler; strigse numerous along the costa and exterior margins; a blackish discal spot and adjoining sinuous line ; submarginal line double, sinuous, and on the fore wing interspaced with yellow, that of the bind wing with three outer blackish spots ; a marginal row of black dots. Tip of palpi and legs above blackish. Expanse 1| inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Remark.-This species is allied to Acidalia contigara, Walk., from Northern India. A. ?GEMMIFERA, n. Sp. Male reddish brown, studded with minute brilliant silver speckles ; exterior margin of hind wing very deeply scalloped: fore wing with medial transverse irregular blackish line terminating on the hind margin in a red ringlet; apex of the wing white, with brown medial streaks and outer lunules ; an indistinct blackish basal streak and discal spot: hind wing with a yellowish-white base and diffused discal band, the exterior margin being pure white and with a row of brown lunules ; a slight reddish discal spot. Cilia of fore wing white anteriorly, the rest brown; that of the hind wing white, except at the tip of the angles, which are brown. Abdomen yellowish white, with brown anal patch. Underside paler, similarly marked, but not speckled. Expanse 1 inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus TIMANDRA, Dup. T I M A N D R A C O N V E C T A R I A , Walk. Cat. Lepid. Het. B. M . xxiii. Geom. p. 800. T. AVENTIARIA, Guen. Phal. ii. p. 3. Silhet. T. SUBOBLIQUARIA, n. Sp. Male pale greyish fawn-colour; a straight dark cinereous-brown band, with paler outer border crossing both wings from the costa one-third from the apex to the middle of abdominal margin : fore wing with some cinnamon-brown lunules at the base, and a black discal spot: a cinnamon-coloured submarginal wavy line to both wings, and a marginal row of black dots. Underside cinereous brown, marked as above, but of a dusky colour. Expanse 1 inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. |
