654 MR. F. MOOUE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, 



L. ^RATA, n. sp. 



Male and female pale glossy brassy yellow : fore wing numerously 

 and minutely speckled witli dark brown ; three equidistant oblique 

 transverse wavy brassy-yellow lines with blackish borders, the inter- 

 spaces each with a transverse row of purphsh-grey spots ; a distinct 

 black discal spot : hind wing cinereous brown, with a slight brassy 

 .gloss ; a submarginal and marginal row of pale yellowish lunules. 

 Cilia brassy yellow, alternated with dark brown. Underside paler ; 

 both wings minutely speckled and with greyish white spots : fore 

 wing cinereous brown basally : hind wing with a distinct black discal 

 spot and narrow band. Palpi, antennae, thorax, and legs yellow, 

 numerously black-speckled. Abdomen cinereous brown above, yel- 

 lowish beneath. 



Expanse 1|^ inch. 



Darjeeling. In Coll. W. S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. 



Genus Eupithecia, Curtis. 



EUPITHECIA SEMICIRCULATA, n. Sp. 



Male ar\i female fuliginous brown, somewhat fleckled : fore wing 

 with two medial transverse black lunular whitish-margined lines, 

 within which is a quadrate anteriorly-speckled yellowish costal patch, 

 contiguous to which is a black discal spot ; a marginal row of black 

 lunules with testaceous borders : hind wing with a large black round 

 evanescent spot with a semicircular white-outer-bordered line at the 

 anal angle ; a black discal dot and contiguous transverse streaks ; a 

 testaceous line with black lunular streaks along the abdominal and 

 exterior margins. Underside paler, indistinctly marked as above. 

 Antennae of the female white-spotted ; antennae in the male broadly 

 but thinly bipectinated to near the apex. 



Expanse j^^ inch. 



Darjeeling. In Coll. W. S. Atkinson ; F. Moore. 



E. FERRTJGINARIA, n. Sp. 



Male and female greyish ferruginous : fore wing with three bright 

 ferruginous transverse irregular zigzag equidistant bands, the two 

 inner bands traversed by a single and the outer band by a partly 

 double yellow lunular line ; base of wing, discal spot and adjoining 

 streaks to the costa, and a streak on exterior margin black ; a paler 

 submarginal ferruginous and yellow band, and a marginal row of 

 black dots : hind wing with a black discal dot and marginal row of 

 dots ; a submarginal transverse ferruginous and yellow lunular band. 

 Head, thorax, and base of abdomen black. 



Expanse I inch. 



Darjeeling. In Coll. A. E. Russell ; W. S. Atkinson. 



E. COSTIPANNARIA, n. Sp. 



Female greyish testaceous, duller beneath : fore wing with an ob- 

 lique basal black patch and a triangular patch on the middle of the 

 costa, both with pale borders ; exterior margin with some small black 



