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Show 652 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, A. PARDARIA, n. Sp. Male white, markings pure grey, darker beneath: fore wing with a large lower basal spot, a double incomplete medial band of irregular conjoined spots, and a submarginal medially interrupted more complete band, the base of which crosses the hind wing; a broad apical patch having a costal spot, which continues interruptedly along the exterior margin of both wings; the spots on posterior border of fore wing speckled with reddish brown. Tip of palpi, head, and antennse black. Thorax ochreous. Abdomen whitish, with four rows of black spots ; tuft yellow. Legs blackish. Body beneath ochreous. Expanse 2\ inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. A. PICARIA, n. sp. Male and female white, markings blackish: fore wing with a blackish-spotted yellow basal patch and transverse discal recurved band; a medial series of less contiguous spots, including a larger discal spot, which is somewhat yellow; some small medial submarginal spots: hind wing with a transverse discal more or less yellow double maculated band, a small discal spot and a few spots along abdominal margin: both wings with lunular marginal spots. Top of palpi and front of head black; thorax and abdomen yellow, with black spots, the latter with dorsal and two lateral rows. Legs blackish. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. A. IRRORATA, 11. Sp. Male yellow: fore wing minutely irrorated with black ; base of wing orange-yellow ; an oblique transverse narrow orange-yellow indistinct band: hind wing white, with a small blackish discal spot and outer maculated line. Head and thorax orange-yellow, spotted with black. Abdomen pale cinereous, with dorsal row of blackish spots. Antennse brown. Underside pale dull yellow; speckles on fore wing, discal spots, and transverse lines on both wings cinereous brown. Expanse 1| inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell. A.? LAPSARIATA, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. xxiv. Geom. p. 1121. A.? TENEBRARIA, n. Sp. Made and female pale dull green : fore wing densely fleckled with blackish brown, variously interspersed with white fleckles ; four obliquely transverse equidistant medially interrupted ill-formed black-fleckled bands, the outer or submarginal band with a row of white spots: hind wing pale yellowish cinereous, with pale cinereous fleckles ; a blackish-brown discal spot and two outer narrow lunular bands: exterior margins with a row of lunular spots. Cilia alter- |