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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 663 C. SUBAPICARIA, n. Sp. Male and female ferruginous brown : fore wing with a narrow blackish transverse subbasal band, and a broad medial band, the inner border of which is upright, the outer border irregularly extending towards the exterior margin; a short whitish oblique subapical streak and a ferruginous-white patch at the apex; a submarginal series of short black longitudinal streaks ; a black marginal line; a medial band with some indistinct black markings and a discal spot: hind wing pale cinereous, with brown marginal line and discal dot. Underside-fore wing blackish cinereous, with a bent subapical whitish oblique streak: hind wing paler, with a blackish discal dot and outer sinuous indistinct line. Legs with whitish spots. Expanse If inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; W . S. Atkinson. Remark.-Allied to Cidaria russata of Europe. C. TRISIGNATA, n. Sp. Male dark brown: fore wing cinereous-fleckled, with several indistinct transverse sinuous black lines ; a basal and a broad medial transverse bands with black-bordered sinuous line and whitish outer margin ; in the middle band are three black-divisioned whitish discal spots ; a cinereous streak at the apex and another at the costal end of the band indistinctly joined by a lower whitish streak ; marginal line black, with some white spots: hind wing cinereous brown, with indistinct discal spot; anterior border and two submarginal lunular lines cinereous white; marginal line as on fore wing. Expanse 2g inches. Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. C. CHALYBEARIA, n. Sp. Female cinereous brown : fore wing chalybeate-speckled along the exterior border, and in patches across the disk and at the base; a broad medial transverse band formed of blackish diffused lunular lines, the middle somewhat paler and containing a black dentate discal mark, before which is a white spot; base of the wing and exterior border with indistinct blackish lunular lines ; a submarginal row of white lunules with black points.- hind wing paler, with a short whitish lunular streak from the anal angle. Underside uniform cinereous brown, with a submarginal row of white dots on both wings. Expanse If inch. Darjeeling; Cherra Poonjee. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore. C. OBSCURATA, n. sp. (PL XXXIII. fig. 7.) Male dark luteous brown : fore wing with a broad medial transverse darker band with narrow yellowish black-bordered lines, the inner line bent inward below its middle, the outer line lunular with he points extending inwardly along the veins ; within the band are |
