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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 653 nate black and pale yellow. Underside pale, markings as above, but more confluent. Head and thorax greenish brown. Abdomen cinereous, with brown bands. Legs blackish, spotted. Expanse, cf 2}, 2 2f inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. VINDUSARA, n. g., Moore. Palpi moderate, flat, porrect, hardly extending beyond the head, densely pilose beneath ; third joint minute, conical. Legs smooth ; hind tibiae very long, pilose at the side, incrassated in the middle (less so in the female) with two pairs of spurs. Antennse broadly pectinated to within one-third their length in the male, simple in the female. Body robust; abdomen extending rather beyond the hind wing in the male, and tufted. Wings large, broad; fore wing trigonal ; exterior margin very oblique, posterior angle rounded : hind wing rather produced at the apex and in the middle of exterior margin, which is angled anteriorly. VINDUSARA COMPOSITATA. (Pl. XXXII. fig. 6.) Abraxas compositata, Guen. Phal. ii. p. 207. V. METACHROMATA. Abraxas metachromata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiv. Geom. p. 1122. Fam. LARENTIDTE. Genus OPORABIA, Steph. OPORABIA MACULARIA, n. sp. Female rufous grey, slightly brown-speckled : fore wing with four series of three or four contiguous narrow brown transverse lines, with darker brown spots along the veins; exterior margin with a line of double spots : hind wing white. Underside paler : fore wing greyish cinereous. Fore legs blackish above, with white spots. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus LARENTIA, Dup. L A R E N T I A VARIEGATA, n. sp. Male dull sap-green, whitish-speckled: fore wing with a broad medial obliquely transverse white sinuous-bordered band, containing several parallel blackish lunular lines, their interspaces varied blackish ochreous and green ; base of wing and exterior border with several transverse whitish-bordered black lunular lines with varied-coloured interspaces ; a well-defined submarginal lunular line : hind wing cinereous brown, with darker outer border, narrow white submarginal lunular lines, and dark brown marginal lunules. Expanse 1| inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. |