_Male and Female._ Body thick; head white; frontalia of the female piceous, linear, red in front; epistoma prominent; proboscis long; palpi whitish; antennae piceous, red at the base; thorax with gilded tomentum, and with three tawny bands which are abbreviated hindward, scutellum blue; pectus testaceous; abdomen blue, white at the base and with two white bands on the 3rd and 4th segments, 1st segment with a transverse blue spot on each side; legs tawny, tibiae and tarsi black; wings grey, blackish along the exterior part of the costa, praebrachial vein forming a right but rounded angle at its flexure, near which it is curved inward and is thence straight to its tip, discal transverse vein slightly undulating, parted by a little more than half its length from the border, and by much more than half its length from the flexure of the praebrachial; alulae testaceous. _Var. Male._ Smaller; thorax with three black stripes; abdomen with only one white band, which is on the 4th segment. Length of the body 4-5 lines; of the wings 8-10 lines. Gen. BENGALIA, _Desv._ 106. BENGALIA SPISSA, n. s. _Mas et Foem._ Fulva, capite nigro antice albo, antennis testaceis, pectore fasciis duabus obliquis albidis, pedibus nigris femoribus basi coxisque fulvis, alis cinereis. _Male and Female._ Tawny. Head black, with silvery tomentum in front, epistoma not prominent; palpi black; antennae testaceous; pectus with an oblique whitish band on each side; legs black, femora towards the base and coxae tawny; wings grey, veins black, testaceous towards the base, praebrachial vein forming an obtuse and rounded angle at its flexure, which is very near the border of the wing, straight from thence to its tip, discal transverse vein straight, parted by much less than its length from the border, and by very much more than its length from the flexure of the praebrachial; alulae testaceous. Length of the body 3-1/2 lines; of the wings 7 lines. Subfam. ANTHOMYIDES, _Walk._ Gen. ARICIA, _Macq._ 107. ARICIA SIGNIFICANS, n. s. _Mas et Foem._ Fulva, subtus testacea, capite nigro argenteo-tomentoso, antennis testaceis, thorace vittis tribus albidis, abdominis apice piceo, alis cinereis. _Male and Female._ Tawny, testaceous beneath. Head black, with silvery tomentum, vertex much broader in the female than in the male; palpi tawny; antennae testaceous; thorax with three whitish stripes in the disk, and with one on each side; abdomen piceous at the tip; tarsi blackish towards the tips; wings cinereous, veins black, tawny towards the base, discal transverse vein hardly undulating, parted by more than its length from the praebrachial transverse, and by less than its length from the border; alulae pale cinereous, with testaceous borders. Length of the body 4 lines; of the wings 7 lines.