44 MR. F. MOORK ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10, 



9. On the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal. 

 By Frederic Moore. 



[Continued from Proc. Zool. Soc. 1865, p. 823.] 

 (Plates VI. & VII.) 



The first part of this " List of the Lepidopterous Insects of Ben- 

 gal " appeared in the Society's ' Proceedings' for December 1865 ; 

 and in it were enumerated 629 species, pertaining to the first three 

 tribes of the order. 



In the present and concluding portions the remaining tribes, viz. 

 the Noctues, Pyrales, Geometres, &c., are treated of, and the names 

 and descriptions of 960 species belonging to these groups are given, 

 of which number about 250 are characterized for the first time. 



For the specimens used in the compilation of this list I am mostly 

 indebted to Messrs. A. E. Russell and W. S. Atkinson, of the Bengal 

 Civil Service, both of whom kindly placed collections at my disposal, 

 other species being contained either in the collections of the British 

 Museum or in my own. All these have been compared with the 

 species described by Mr. Walker in the British Museum Catalogues, 

 the result of which has been the reduction of various generic and 

 specific names of that author to the rank of synonyms. 



The total number of species of the Lepidopterous Insects of Bengal 

 that are recorded in this memoir in each tribe are as follows : — 



Papiliones 409 



Sphinges 50 



Bombyces 387 



Noctues 288 



Pseudo deltoides 27 



Deltoides ; 34 



Pyrales 73 



Geometres 288 



Crambices ; 18 



Tortrices 7 



Tineines 35 



Total 1616 



Tribe Noctues. 



Fam. Cymatophorid.«. 



Genus GoNOPHORA, Bruand. 



GONOPHORA INDICA, n. Sp. 



Pale fawn-colour : fore wing with the base uniform pale fawn- 

 colour, bordered by an oblique silvery-white line, and traversed by a 

 white basal streak, which is crossed by a narrow line ; middle of the 

 costa white, beneath which the wing is pale ferruginous, with deli- 

 cate undulating transverse striae, and a series of four narrow pale- 

 bordered darker zigzag discal lines, bordered externally by a sub- 



