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Show 616 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, with orange-yellow on the lower part of exterior border ; a brownish-cinereous submarginal band, maculated anteriorly and traversed posteriorly by two parallel white lines, beneath which are three short black streaks ; two similar-coloured streaks above it on the abdominal margin; on the exterior margin is a black conical white-speckled lower spot, and three smaller anterior contiguous cinereous spots, each with an outer narrow lunule. Palpi, front of head, and broad band on abdomen brownish cinereous. Cilia edged with cinereous. Underside white, with two narrow outer maculated bands, and basal patch on fore wing dark cinereous. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Fam. MICRONID^. Genus MICRONIA, Guen. MICRONIA GANNATA, Guen. Phal. ii. p. 26. Calcutta; Silhet. M. ACULEATA, Guen. ib. pl. 13. f. 8. Silhet. M. FASCIATA. Phal. Geom. fasciata, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 104. f. D. Phalcena caudata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2. p. 63. Micronia caudata, Guen. Phal. ii. p. 25. M. OBTUSATA, Guen. ib. pl. 5. f. 6. M. SIMPLICIATA, n. sp. Male and female silky white, paler beneath : fore wing with some short delicate cinereous strigse along the costa; a cinereous discal streak and five transverse simple bands, the three outer crossing the hind wing ; first and second band subbasal; third broadest, medial; the other two submarginal; a black marginal line to both wings, which at the medial angle on the hind wing has two narrow spots. Expanse ly inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. M. SPARSARIA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. Geom. p. 818. Silhet. M. STRIATARIA, Linn. (Clerck, Icon.pl. 55. f. 4; Walk.ib. p. 818.) Genus MYRTETA, Walk. M Y R T E T A PLANARIA, Walk. ib. p. 831. Genus EROSIA, Guen. EROSIA CERVINARIA, n. sp. Male and female cinereous brown or fawn-colour. |