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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 659 cinereous white, with a small blackish discal spot, narrow trausverse oblique straight subbasal, recurved discal, and irregular submarginal bands, and wavy marginal line. Cilia white, alternated with black. Base of palpi, front and top of thorax, dorsal line, and lateral bands on abdomen black. Antennse black. Underside cinereous white ; markings as above, but more subdued. Body and legs pale; legs with black spots. Expanse If inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. A. MARMORATA, n. sp. (Pl. XXXIII. fig. 3.) Male and female white, with thinly dispersed short reddish strigse: fore wing with an oblique basal, double subbasal, and submarginal transverse ferruginous bands, a streak (which also forms a discal ringlet) longitudinally from the subbasal band to exterior margin, where there are some pointed lunules of the same colour : hind wing with a subbasal oblique band and narrow wavy ferruginous discal line, the latter with lower exterior border and pointed lunules of the same colour: exterior margins with a narrow wavy ferruginous line. Body ferruginous; spot on tegulse and dorsal streak on abdomen white. Underside pale cinereous brown, with slightly apparent blackish discal and submarginal streaks on fore wing, narrow discal spot, subbasal and outer transverse lines on the hind wing, and wavy marginal line. Antennse and legs blackish-streaked. Expanse 1\ inch. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. Genus PSYRA, Walk. P S Y R A C U N E A T A , Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxi. Geom. p. 483. P. ANGULIFERA. Scotosia angulifera, Walk. ib. xxxv. Suppl. v. p. 1687. Darjeeling. P. SIMILARIA, n. sp. (PL XXXIII. fig. 1.) Male pale greenish saffron-yellow: fore wing with three submarginal jet-black spots ; the first small, triangular, and near the apex; the next nearly midway beneath, elongated, bidentated exteriorly; the third the largest and near the posterior border, triangular with the angle pointing to the base, and slightly excavated exteriorly; a transverse discal series of black dots, a distinct discal spot; three subbasal transverse spots, the lowest triangular, and a single spot at the base : both wings with a marginal row of black dots, most distinct on the fore wing: hind wing pale cinereous yellow, with cinereous speckles and discal spot, and two outer curved cinereous bands, the inner band narrow, the outer distinct. Palpi and three spots on top of the thorax black. Expanse 1^ inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. |
