306 NOVITATES ZOOLOQIOAE XXIV. 1917. 



SuBFAM. STERRHINAE. 

 32. Rhodostrophia plesiochora spec. iiov. 



■3, 27 mm. ; ?, 30 mm. .Similar to meonaria Guen. (Prout in Scitz, Macrolep. 

 iv. t. 7 a), with which it has been mixed. Artennal pectinations shorter, scarcely 

 over twice diameter of shaft. Wings shorter, particiilarly in the (J. 



Forewing rather more oehreous (in the most deeply coloured examples of meo~ 

 narin tending rather to olivaceous), rather more glossy, a faint grey antemcdian 

 line indicated except at costa ; postmedian line relatively farther from termen, 

 rather less oblique, generally' less red, the narrow band beyond it shadowy ; 

 subterniinal grey line well expressed ; a narrow pink shade at termen (rarth' 



indicated in meonaria except on the terminal line itself). Hindwing generally 



rather more oehreous than in meonaria ; cell-dot present ; postmedian pink 

 shade broader, but above never reaching nearly to costa. beneath rounded 

 anteriorly (not, as in meoimria, angulated) ; subterniinal line better developed. 



West China: Pu-tsu-fong, 9,820 ft., June— July 1890, type <J and a 2; 

 Chow-pin-sa, 2 ,Jc?, 1 9; all these in coll. Brit. ]\his. Omei-shan, 1 (J in coll. 

 Tring Museum. Teng-jTieh-Ting , 1 $ in coll. Joicey. Vrianatong, Tibet, 1 ? 

 in coll. L. B. Prout. 



Erroneouslj' referred to under meoiuiria in Seitz, Macrolep. iv. 40 ; the 

 Kashmir examples, including the figure, are true meonaria. 



33. Rhodostrophia bisinuata ^A'arr. 



Rhodostrophia bisinuata Warr., Noi: Zuul. ii. 98 (1895) ; Prout in Seitz, Macrolep. iv. 43 (1913). 

 Rhodostrophia sinensis Prout in Seitz, Macrolep. iv. 43 (1913) {R. vinacearia subsp., ? sp.) (syn. nov.). 



Warren founded this species on a single $ said to be from "Japan," but 

 no doubt really from West China ; several other specimens in the Tring Museum 

 belonging to the latter fauna (for instance, a Somatina mendicaria Leech and 

 an Anisephijra hrnnnearia Leech, both presumably topotypical with some of 

 Leech's originals) bear the same erroneous labels. When I was at work on 

 the genus Rhodostrophia for Seitz, Warren's type was not accessible to me and 

 I merely quoted the original description ; but on p. 44, in erecting a new species, 

 Tanaotrichia orientis, I suggested the possibility that the last-named might 

 prove to be a form of Warren's lost species. Subsequently (Nov. ZooL. xxii, 

 324) 1 erroneouslj' accepted this suggestion and wrote "bisinuata Warr. = 

 orientis Prout," which must be corrected to " orientis Prout." The females of 

 the two species are confusingly similar, but a careful study of Warren's type, 

 together with the rest of the available material, has shown conclusively that 

 bisinuata Warr. is the true Rhodostrophia and supplants my sinensis. I think 

 it will prove a valid species rather than a race of vinacearia Moore. I now know 

 it from Chang Yang, Szechuan, Teng-yueh-Ting (Yunnan, near the Burmese 

 frontier), and Vrianatong (Tibet). 



34. Discoglypha aureifloris parvifloris subsp. nov. 



cJ ?, 30-32 mm. Slightly paler and mure rufous-tinged than a. aureifloris 

 Warr. (Nov. Zool. iii. 111). 



Hindwing with the mark behind the cell much smaller, only extending 



