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tudiual streaks on tlie exterior margin, the latter with pale borders ; 

 a pale space below the apical half of the costa containing two round 

 yellowish spots, one at the extremity of the cell, the other beyond ; 

 small spots along the costa, two mai'ks within the cell, short streaks 

 and transverse lines below the cell black : hind wing pale greyish 

 brown, with broad darker brown marginal band. Head and thorax 

 blackish brown, the latter ferruginous in the middle. Abdomen 

 brown. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell. 



X. LEUCOSTIGMA, U. Sp. 



Female ferruginous : fore wing varied with pale ferl'uginous and 

 dark ferruginous brown ; a dark basal curved double line enclosing a 

 pale space, a transverse sinuous double line beyond, irregular trans- 

 verse discal lunulated lines, and submarginal row of lanceolate marks; 

 orbicular mark pale ; a large irregular-shaped pale-bordered white 

 reuiform mark : hind wing and abdomen reddish fawn-colour. Head 

 and thorax varied pale ferruginous and dark ferruginous brown. 

 Cilia ferruginous. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Bengal. In Coll. xl. E. Russell. 



Genus Dipterygia, Steph. 



DiPTERVGIA INDICA, U. Sp. 



Female dark reddish brown : fore wing mottled with blackish 

 brown, a greyish elongated patch disposed exteriorly along posterior 

 margin, bordered above by an irregular blackish line : hind wing and 

 abdomen brown. Head and thorax dark reddish brown. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Darjeeling. In Coll. F. Moore. 



Genus Spodoptera, Guen. 

 Spodoptera ciLiuM, Gucu. Noct. i. p. 156. 



Larva feeds on the Doobh Grass {Cynadon dactylon). — A. Grote, 

 Esq. 



Genus Prodenia, Guen. 



Prodenia ciligera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 163. 



P. glaucistriga. Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. ?»I. ix. Noct. 197, $ . 



IP. retina, Boisd. 



Larva very destructive to cabbages. — A. Grote, Esq. 



P. infecta. Walk. ib. p. 196. 

 P. i7isiffnata, Vfalk. ib. p. 197. 



P. LECTULA, Walk. ib. xv. Noct. p. 1679. 



