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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 649 Fam. FIDONID^E. Genus STERRHA, Hiibn. S T E R R H A SACRARIA, Linn. (Guen. Phal. ii. p. 175). Genus DOCIRAVA, Walk. DOCIRAVA AQUILINEATA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. Geom. p. 1635. D. UVARIA. Aspilates uvaria, Walk. ib. p. 1681. Anaitis vastata, Walk. ib. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1700. Darjeeling. Genus ASPILATES, Treit. ASPILATES FALCONARIA, Walk. ib. p. 1665. Darjeeling. A. OBLIQ.UARIA, n. Sp. Male pale yellowish : fore wing minutely speckled with brown ; a brown discal spot and two others obliquely beneath it; an oblique transverse straight discal dark brown paler-outer-bordered line and an interrupted parallel series of submarginal streaks: hind wing white, with two short brown streaks from abdominal margin, one medial, the other near anal angle : both wings with a marginal row of blackish dots. Underside yellowish white ; closely speckled with brown along the costa and on the hind wing; both wings with two exterior reddish-brown lines and blackish discal spot and marginal dots. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus CAPRILIA, Walk. CAPRILIA VESICULARIA, Walk. ib. Suppl. xxxv. p. 1569. Male with a colourless vitreous spot near the base of the fore wing, which is blind and smaller in the female. Expanse 1 inch. Cherra Poonjee; Debroghur, Assam. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. C. SPECULARIA, n. sp. (Pl. XXXIII. fig. 11.) Bright yellow, blotched and fleckled with pale ferruginous yellow, some of which have a darker central speck. Male with a vitreous oval spot at the base of the wing, which is smaller and blind in the female. Fore wing with dark ferruginous lunular marks at the base of the costa, an oblique spot on its middle, and another before the apex; beneath the latter is a pale ferruginous-yellow patch ; on the posterior margin are two dark ferruginous outwardly ascending streaks, the inner one large and concave exteriorly -. hind wing with PROC. ZOOL. Soc-1867, No. XLII. |
