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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 645 Genus SOMATINA, Guen. S O M A T I N A PLURILINEARIA, n. sp. Male and female pale testaceous yellow: both wings with two medial obliquely transverse equidistant wavy brown lines; the inner line retracted to the costa, between which and bordering the outer hue are three paler parallel lunular lines, and on the fore wing near the costa is a small round black discal spot; three pale lunular lines crossing the base of the wings ; two darker similar submarginal lines, and an outer row of small pure-white spots, those on the upper part of fore wing with a diffused blackish border, which colour also extends in a short longitudinal medial streak to the outer transverse line; exterior marginal line dark brown. Tip of palpi, spots on head, and collar in front of thorax dark brown. Expanse 1| inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. S. ?PICTARIA, 11. Sp. Male and female cinereous white : fore wing with a ferruginous-brown basal patch and two transverse bands, the outer band angulated before the costa, both confluent along the costal half in the female ; between the bands is a small dentiform blackish discal spot • several delicate silvery-white evanescent lines crossing the wing, between which on the exterior border are two or three parallel'pale cinereous-brown narrow bands, which are darkest at the apex • hind wing with two medial and two submarginal pale cinereous-brown bands, the latter with silvery-white outer margins. Palpi, head and thorax ferruginous brown. Abdomen cinereous white. Legs cinereous brown. Underside paler : fore wing with cinereous-brown markings as above. Expanse ly2^ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson; F. Moore. Genus ARGYRIS, Guen. A R G Y R I S MYSTICATA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxiii. Geom. p. 1617. Darjeeling. A. OCELLATA. Caloptera ocellata, Friv. Herr.-Schseff. Samml. eur. Schmett ii p. 97, pl. 23. f. 125 ; Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . vi. Bomb, p {377 Argyris ocellata,Walk. ib. xxii. Geom. p. 807. A. ommalophoraria, Guen. Phal. ii. p. 13. A. INSIGNATA, n. sp. Female white ; costa considerably arched from the base : fore wine with four cinereous obliquely quadrate spots on the costa, an irregular broad discal transverse band, which is traversed hindward by two short wavy streaks, and a submarginal series of small spots • the marginal line at the posterior angle blackish - hind wing suffused |