NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 7,7' 



SuBFAM. STERRHINAE. 

 3. Rhodostrophia tremiscens sp. nov. 



S, 30-31 mm. 



Head and body cone lorous with wings, the face and upperside of palpus 

 darker, the vertex whitish. Antennal pectinations longer than in the allies — 

 four or five ti ues the dia iieter of the shaft. Hindtibia moderately dUated, with 

 hair-pencil and three strong spurs. 



Forewing broad, terjien very slightly sinuous, SC' very shortly stalked ; 

 dark fawn-colour, with a slight umbreous tinge ; lines slight, very slender ; 

 antemedian excurved and somewhat sinuous ; median well beyond the cell-dot 

 (but scarcely so far as in the allies), nearly parallel with termen from costa to 

 R' or M\ then slightly n:ore oblique inward, curving again so as to fall vertically 

 on hindmargin slightly beyond u.iddle ; post'cedian in its main outline nearly 

 as in hisimiata Warr. (Novitates Zoologicae, ii. 98), but with the curves 

 slightly less deep, on the other hand with slight secondary indentations which 

 are not, or scarcely, traceable in that species ; cell-dot distinct, slightly larger 

 than in bisinuata ; terminal line extremely feeble,' interrupted at the veins ; 

 fruige anple, with a very fine pale line at base, then broadly darkened, again 



with a narrow dark line near tips. Hindwing ample, with termen somewhat 



bent in middle ; first line wanting ; cell-dot minute, rather closely followed by 

 the median line ; the rest as on forewing. 



Underside slightly brighter fav/n, somewhat mixed with ochreous costally 

 on forewing ; minute cell-dots and fine postniedian line present. 



Nanchuen, S. Szechuan, W. China, July — September, 2 cJcJ in coU. Tring 

 Museum. 



Taken together with bisimiata Warr., but clearly distinct, not only in its 

 broader wings and darker colour but also in the much finer and more tremulous 

 lines, particularly in the bent median line. In all the bisinuata which I have 

 exa Jiined, SC of the forewing is much longer stalked than in tremiscens ; though 

 this is too variable a character to be depended upon alone, it is by no means 

 negligible in conjunction with the other distinctions. 



4. Dithecodes phaenomeris sp. nov. 



Euihysana inconspkua Warr., Novit. Zool. xiv. 142 (1007) (nee vi. 338). 



<J $, 24-25 mm. Face brick-red to maroon-purple (in inconspicua black or 

 blackish). Hindleg in <J glabrous, the inner spur well developed, though con- 

 siderably shorter than the outer (in inconspicua the femur strongly hairy, the 

 tibia with strong hau'-pencil, the inner spur strongly atrophied, perhaps some- 

 times wantmg). Antennal cOiation in 3 long. 



Forewing with areole double, SC- from cell (m inconspicua with areole gener- 

 ally single, occasionally also with a very small distal areole remaining, SC well 

 stalked), apex rather more pointed than in inconspicua, termen rather smoother ; 

 giound-colour fawn, with a slight vinaceous tinge (in inconspicua drab-grey) ; 



postniedian line straightish, not lunulate-dentate ; fringe less whitened. 



Hindwing with termen slightly smoother ; postmedian luie curved or bent in 

 middle, not lunulate-dentate ; cell-dot small (in inconspicua large). 



Underside more reddish than in inconspicua, more sharply marked. 



