1865. MR. F, MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. 783 
anterior margin pale buff yellow. Body greyish. Cilia of hind 
wing orange-yellow. Underside paler, suffused with orange-yellow ; 
fore wing with a curved series of pale-purple narrow streaks between 
the veins before the apex, and a broad pale buff patch along the 
posterior margin ; hind wing with the veins and lines between them 
and cilia orange-yellow; a black orange-yellow-encircled basal spot 
on both wings; a discal series of pale-purplish streaks. Third joint 
of palpi brown ; palpi beneath, front and sides of thorax, legs, and 
streak along side of abdomen orange-yellow ; middle of thorax and 
abdomen and anal tuft orange-yellow. 
Female. Upperside dark purple brown; the base of wings greyish, 
with steel-blue gloss. Body greyish. Cilia of hind wing pale 
orange-yellow. Underside as in male; posterior margin of fore 
wing with a less-defined pale patch. 
Expanse 2 inches. 
Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell; F. Moore; East Ind. Mus. 
I. amara, Moore, Cat. Lep. E. I. C. i. p. 247. 
Male and female. Upperside brown, with a greenish gloss ; costal 
streak of fore wing ochreous yellow in the male, less prominent in 
the female; male with a blackish subbasal patch. Cilia of both 
wings short, and brownish white. Body dark brown; abdomen with 
greyish segmental bands. Underside—fore wing brown, becoming: 
bluish black along the base of the cesta; posterior margin broadly 
brownish white: hind wing bluish black; veins of both wings 
brownish white, the space between them having a greyish-blue par- 
allel line running their entire length. Both wings also with the 
black ochreous-yellow-encircled basal spot. Thorax in front and 
beneath, head, palpi, legs, middle of abdomen, and anal tuft ochreous 
yellow. Femora and tibiz with a black spot; sides of abdomen 
black, the segmental bands prominent. Cilia greyish. 
Expanse 2+ inches. 
N.E. Bengal. In Coll. A. KE. Russell ; F. Moore; East Ind. Mus. 
I. BENJAMINI. 
Hesperia (Thymele) benjaminii, Guér. Mén. in Deless. Voy. dans 
VInde, pt. 2. t. 22. f. 2. 
H. xanthopogon, Kollar, Hiigel’s Kaschmir, iv. pt. 2. t. 18. f. 1, 2 
(1844). 
Darjeeling. 
I. GoMATA, n. sp. 
Male. Upperside pale vinaceous brown; both wings with pale 
brownish-yellow streaks longitudinally between the veins. Abdomen 
blackish brown, with yellowish bands. Cilia yellowish. Underside 
dark brown, with the veins and longitudinal streaks between thein 
greyish green, the brown showing only along each side of the veins ; 
posterior margin of fore wing broadly pale vinaceous ; exterior mar- 
gin of both wings defined by a brown line. Third joint of palpi and 
