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658 MR. F. MOORK ON BENGALESE LEPIDOPTERA. [May 23, 



to both wings luteous white. Underside paler, indistinctly marked 

 as above. 



Expanse 2g inches. 



Bengal {Sherwill). In Coll. F. Moore. 



Arichanna, n. g., Moore. 



Palpi small, compressed, moderately clothed with long hairs ; third 

 joint minute, conical. Antennae — male bipectinated, the pectinations 

 formed of fasicles of fine short hairs ; female simple. Legs slender, 

 smooth ; mid tibiae with one pair and hind tibiae with two pairs of 

 long spurs. Abdomen slender, tufted at the apex, not reaching to 

 the angle of the hind wing. Fore wing elongate-trigonate ; costa 

 straight at the base, arched near the end ; apex angled ; exterior 

 margin oblique, slightly convex ; hind margin nearly straight. Hind 

 wing convex exteriorly, slightly scalloped. 



Arichanna plagifera. 



Seotosia plaffifera,Via\k. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. Suppl. v. 



1686. 



Darjeehng. 



A. RAMOSA. 



Scotosia ramosa, Walk. ib. p. 1688. 

 Darjeeling. 



A. TRAMESATA, n. Sp. (PI. XXXIII. fig. 2.) 



Male and female pale yellowish cinereous : fore wing with nume- 

 rous short transverse blackish-brown confluent strigse ; a yellowish 

 longitudinal medial line from the base to exterior margin, crossed by 

 two narrow white contorted transverse inner bands, and outer sub- 

 marginal lunular line ; an oblique yellowish streak from the apex to 

 the discal band ; strigse thinly disposed along the outer margin of 

 discal band ; a distinct discal spot formed of confluent black strigse ; 

 exterior margin with a row of black lunular spots : hind wing with 

 indistinct discal spot and outer transverse strigse ; a row of marginal 

 lunules. Body dark-speckled. Underside paler, the dark markings 

 of fore wing cinereous brown : hind wing thickly speckled with brown, 

 discal spot distinct. Exterior margins with black spots. Cilia alter- 

 nated with black. 



Expanse 1| inch. 



Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell ; F. Moore. 



Remark. — This species is allied to both A. ramosaria and A. pla- 

 gifera. 



A. MACULATA, n. Sp. 



Female yellowish white : fore wing with several obliquely trans- 

 verse bands of large white spots with some smaller spots parallel 

 between them, the whole of the interspaces being deep black, the 

 spots divided longitudinally into three distinct series : hind wing 



