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Show 658 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, to both wings luteous white. Underside paler, indistinctly marked as above. Expanse 2g inches. Bengal (Sherwill). In Coll. F. Moore. ARICHANNA, n. g., Moore. Palpi small, compressed, moderately clothed with long hairs ; third joint minute, conical. Antennse-male bipectinated, the pectinations formed of fasicles of fine short hairs ; female simple. Legs slender, smooth ; mid tibiae with one pair and hind tibiae with two pairs of long spurs. Abdomen slender, tufted at the apex, not reaching to the angle of the hind wing. Fore wing elongate-trigonate; costa straight at the base, arched near the end ; apex angled; exterior margin oblique, slightly convex ; hind margin nearly straight. Hind wing convex exteriorly, sliglitly scalloped. ARICHANNA PLAGIFERA. Scotosia plagifera, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B.M. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1686. Darjeeling. A. RAMOSA. Scotosia ramosa, Walk. ib. p. 1688. Darjeeling. A. TRAMESATA, n. sp. (Pl. XXXIII. fig. 2.) Male and female pale yellowish cinereous : fore wing with numerous short transverse blackish-brown confluent strigse; a yellowish longitudinal medial line from the base to exterior margin, crossed by two narrow white contorted transverse inner bands, and outer sub-marginal lunular line; an oblique yellowish streak from the apex to the discal band; striga? thinly disposed along the outer margin of discal band ; a distinct discal spot formed of confluent black strigse ; exterior margin with a row of black lunular spots: hind wing with indistinct discal spot and outer transverse strigse ; a row of marginal lunules. Body dark-speckled. Underside paler, the dark markings of fore wing cinereous brown : hind wing thickly speckled with brown, discal spot distinct. Exterior margins with black spots. Cilia alternated with black. Expanse lg inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. Remark.-This species is allied to both A. ramosaria and A. plagifera. A. MACULATA, n. Sp. Female yellowish white: fore wing with several obliquely transverse bands of large white spots with some smaller spots parallel between them, the whole of the interspaces being deep black, the spots divided longitudinally into three distinct series : hind wing |