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Show 1867.] MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 667 spots above the anal angle of the hind wing. Labial and maxillary palpi and eyes black. Fore legs blackish. Expanse 1| inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. RAMILA, n. g., Moore. Male. Labial palpi porrect, slender ; second and third joints ot equal length ; third joint pilose, pointed. Maxillary palpi extending beyond the head to near the tip of the labial, pilose, tufted at the apex. Proboscis small. Head large, broad, prominent, projecting considerably beyond the eyes, oval in front. Antennse minutely serrated. Body rather stout; abdomen extending beyond the hind wings. Legs moderate ; fore tibise incrassate, pilose beneath ; hind tibise with four rather long spurs. Fore wings elongate ; costa nearly straight; apex much produced and slightly falcate ; exterior margin straight, very oblique, angle rounded ; posterior margin convex in the middle : hind wings trigonate; apex produced and slightly falcate; anal angle truncate. RAMILA MARGINELLA, n. sp. (Pl. XXXIII. fig. 16.) Male silvery white: fore wing with numerous short tranverse lu-nulate iridescent wrinkles; a narrow cupreous-brown marginal band along the costa ; two oblique transverse narrow brown lines, the outer line submarginal and irregular, the inner line rather indistinct and terminated by two small brown discal spots, another similar spot being situated some distance within the cell. Two short transverse narrow brown lines crossing the lower part of the hind wing. Both wings with a narrow black lunular line to the exterior margin. Cilia of both wings pale ferruginous, edged with cinereous, the division being by a narrow black lunular line. Sides of head in front and palpi above brown. Fore legs partly brown ; tarsi brown at the base of each joint. Expanse 1| inch. Darjeeling. In Coll. W . S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. Genus CRAMBUS. C R A M B U S CONSOCIELLUS, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvii. p. 159. Note.-North America is given in the * Brit. Mus. Catalogue ' as the habitat of this insect. This I have ascertained to be an error. Genus Ac ARA, Walk. A C A R A MOROSELLA, Walk. ib. p. 199. Silhet. Genus SCHCENOBIUS. SCHOSNOBIUS M I N U T E L L U S , Zeller, Monogr. Chilo. et Cramb. p. 5 (1863). Calcutta (W. S. Atkinson). S. PUNCTELLUS, Zeller, ib. p. 4 (1863). Calcutta (W. S. Atkinson). |