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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 655 spots below the apex and above the posterior angle, bordered by an inner whitish line ; some very indistinct whitish lines obliquely crossing the disk : hind wing pale cinereous along the anterior border ; some dark streaks from abdominal margin, and a whitish line extending upward from middle of posterior margin. Cilia whitish, with blackish inner line and streaks. Palpi, head, and thorax black. Abdomen testaceous. Underside : fore wing with small black oblique discal spot and spots on the middle of the costa : hind wing with discal spot and outer transverse indistinct line of points. Expanse ly^ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus SAURIS, Guen. S A U R I S DECUSSATA, n. sp. (Pl. XXXIII. fig. 10.) Female bright green : hind wing and abdomen uniform cinereous brown: fore wing with a medial transverse band of diffused black lunular lines enclosing a small discal spot; base of the wing and exterior border with narrow black less-distinct lines ; two short longitudinal black streaks below the apex ; a marginal row of black-pointed lunules, and an intermediate outer row of marks like the letter X, which cross the cilia; costal margin ochreous. Antennse ochreous, black-spotted. Palpi, head, and thorax bright green. Underside cinereous brown, with indistinct blackish costal streaks, discal mark, and outer transverse wavy line. Legs black, white-spotted. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. Genus MELANIPPE, Dup. M E L A N I P P E CATENARIA, n. sp. (Pl. XXXIII. fig. 9.) Male ferruginous brown : fore wing with a broad partly transverse oblique whitish medial hand, containing several blackish lunular parallel lines, the middle line being chain-like; exterior border with a series of white spots below the apex, a large medial spot, and a smaller spot at the posterior angle: hind wing white, with short blackish-cinereous lunular streaks from abdominal margin; an exterior marginal lunular line. Palpi, head, and thorax ferruginous brown ; two black metallic tufts on lower part of thorax. Abdomen white, with transverse cinereous streaks. Cilia alternate white and brown. Underside cinereous white : fore wing with three cinereous-brown transverse discal lines, and broad marginal band with a sub-marginal row of white dots : hind wing with a curved discal spot and three indistinct cinereous-brown outer sinuous lines, a submarginal line, and darker lunular marginal line. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. M. CUPREATA, n. Sp. Male glossy cupreous brown : fore wing with several basal trans- |