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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 647 Male. Fore wing dark cinereous brown, with very indistinct blackish discal spot, and transverse sinuous line with whitish border; costa and exterior marginal line reddish brown : hind wing very pale at the base; a white-speckled line at anal angle; exterior marginal line reddish brown ; cilia blackish, edged with cinereous. Female brownish fawn-colour on the fore wing : hind wing as in the male. Underside paler ; costa reddish brown ; a very indistinct dusky transverse discal line. Expanse, cf If, $ If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. Fam. CABERID^E. Genus CABERA. CABERA PLATYLEUCATA. Acidalia platyleucata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1628. C. MARGARITA, n. Sp. Male and female pearly white, minutely speckled with cinereous. Both wings with a black discal spot and an indistinct cinereous discal band. Costal line yellow. Antennse, front of head, and legs brownish yellow. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. Fam. MACARID^E. Genus MACARIA, Curtis. Syn. Evarzia, Walk. MACARIA METAGONARIA. Alzelina metagonaria, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. Geom. p. 1518. Darjeeling. M. PERSPICUARIA, n. Sp. Female pale yellowish testaceous, with thinly dispersed short delicate blackish strigse: fore wing with two subbasal oblique wavy testaceous lines, the outer line crossing the hind wing ; a submarginal narrow blackish double red band crossing both wings obliquely from below the apex to above anal angle, the apical portion of the inner end abruptly retracted to the costa one-third from the apex ; the marginal space on the fore wing blackish: hind wing with an exterior medial reddish spot and contiguous upper streak : both wings with a narrow black marginal line. Two dorsal rows of black spots on abdomen. Underside paler, with minute strigse as above, and the double band broadly bordered exteriorly with bright testaceous, and on the fore wing by a diffused blackish streak ascending from near |
