50 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [JaU. 10, 



Fam. Glottulid^. 

 Genus Polytela, Guen. 

 PoLYTELA GLORios^, Fabr. (Guen. Noct. i. p.. 113). 

 Larva feeds on grass (July 19tb) ; the same evening it went into 

 the earth ; ten days after the moth appeared. — Lady Rose Gilberfs 

 Notes. 



Genus Glottula, Guen. 

 Glottula DOMINICA, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 399. f. H. 

 Larva feeds on Crinum pancratium, Zephyrantlms, &c. — E.Blyth. 



Genus Chasmina, "Walk. 

 Chasmina cygnus, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. ix. Noct. p. 147. 



Fam. GORTYNID^E. 



Genus Gortyna, Ochs. 



GORTYNA CUPREA, n. Sp. (PI. VI. fig. 8.) 



Male dark ferruginous : fore wing with orbicular and reniform 

 marks large, distinct, yellowish ; exterior to each is a transverse 

 b' ickish ashy-bordered line, which colour extends along the costa ; 

 some yellowish marks near the base ; a submarginal lunulated yel- 

 lowish line : hind wing blackish cupreous, paler along anterior mar- 

 gin ; cilia pale cupreous. Head and thorax ferruginous. Abdomen 

 ashy above, tuft and beneath ferruginous. 



Expanse 1|^ inch. 



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



Genus Hydr,ecia, Guen. 



HYDRiECIA NAXIAOIDES, U. Sp. 



Dark greenish brown : fore wing with two outwardly oblique 

 darker brown chalybeous-outer-bordered transverse lines, the inner 

 line straight and one-third from the base, the outer line waved and 

 one- third from the apex ; a submarginal row of irregularly disposed 

 brown spots bordered outwardly by a chalybeous line : hind wing 

 and abdomen plain brown. Head and thorax dark greenish brown. 

 Cilia pale pinkish brown. 



Expanse l\ incli. 



Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. 



Fam. Xylophasid.e. 

 Genus Xylophasia, Steph. 

 Xylophasia flavistigma, n. sp. 



Male ferruginous : fore wing suffused with blackish brown along 

 the costa, across the basal half of the wing and in irregular longi- 



