86 MR. F. MOORE ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [Jail. 10, 



with wliite-speckled borders from the anal angle ; cilia with white 

 spots. Underside paler, marked as above. Palpi in the male porrect, 

 compressed ; second joint long, slender, and bent at the apex, squa- 

 mous, tufted above at the end ; third joint short, one-third the length 

 of the second, fusiform, tufted above : in the female erect, curved ; 

 first and second joijits squamous ; third joint very slender, naked, 

 nearly the length of the second. Antennae in the male fixed on a 

 short pedestal, serrated and pectinated ; base curved ; shaft tumid 

 near the base ; in the female minutely pectinated. 



Expanse, c? 1-|> 2 H ii^ch. 



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



Genus Mastygophora, Poey. 



MaSTYGOPHORA ? SCOPIGERALIS, n. sp. 



3Iale brown : fore wing with a pale yellowish-brown oblique trans- 

 verse band with wavy dark brown borders, the exterior formed by a 

 double line with posterior black streaks ; within the band is a brown 

 indistinct reniform streak ; orbicular spot small, whitish. Both 

 wings with a submarginal transverse wavy sinuous pale line with 

 black points, and a less distinct similar marginal line. Underside 

 ochreous white, with broad brown exterior borders, narrow transverse 

 sinuous line and short discal streak, and a pale sinuous line crossing 

 the exterior borders. Legs blackish. Tuft of palpi pale ochreous. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Bengal (Shei-will). In Coll. F. JNIoore. 



liemar/c. — This species may be known by its enormously length- 

 ened palpi (iu the male), the third joint of which has a brush-like 

 tuft of very long silky hairs beneath. 



Genus Echana, Walk. 



ECHANA PLICALIS, n. Sp. (PI. YII. fig. 7.) 



Male and female brownish fawn-colour, slightly glossy ; costal 

 fold darker : fore wing with two indistinct yellowish narrow imper- 

 fect denticulated lines — the first from beneath the fold, the other 

 beyond it, both indistinctly crossing the hind wing, on the under- 

 side of which they are more distinct and have a dark inner border, 

 there being also a short dark subbasal streak ; ciha with a pale inner 

 narrow line. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



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



Remark. — The species of this genus may be known by the fore 

 wing having in both sexes a large subfusiform costal raised fold 

 above, and the dislocation of the contiguous veins. 



Genus Locastra, Walk. 



LocASTRA PHERECiuscALis, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xvi. 

 Delt. p. 159. 



Silhet. ... 



