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Genus RHYTIA. 



RhjHa, Hiilin T, Voiz. liok. .Schm3tt. p. 264 (1818-23); Mooro, Trans. Zool. Soc. xi. p. 72 (1881). 

 Ophideres (part), Guouee ; Walker. 



Forewing in both sexes with the exterior margin even, and angulated outward 

 in the middle. Palpi very long, the third joint with broad clavate tufted tip. 



Larva similar in form to that of Othreis, but with a slight dorsal protuberance 

 on the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eleventh segments. 



RHYTIA HYPERMNESTEA (Pi,ate 162, fig. 3. 3«, i ? ). 

 Phalana Kociua Hypermnestra, Cramer, P.ip. Exot. iv. ])1. 323, fiw. a, b (1782). 

 Rhijtia Ilypermnestra, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Sclimett. p. 264; Moore, Trans. Zool. Soc. xl. p. 73, 



pi. xii. fig. 6 ; xiv. f. 4, 4a. 

 Ophideres Ilypermnestra, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 116; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xiii. p. 1225. 



Male: forewing ochreous-green, numerously covered with slender blackish 

 transverse strigte ; crossed by pale chalybeous-grey bordered dai-ker fascise, by a 

 distinct antemedial, and an oblique postmedial brown line; an indistinct dusky 

 brown suffused reniform mark ; a curved grey streak below the apex and grey strigfe 

 above posterior angle ; transverse lines with chalybeous-grey inner border : hind wing 

 orange-yellow, with a broad marginal black band, white cilial row of spots and apical 

 angle, and with two small black discal spots, the upper spot oval, the lower recurved. 

 Thorax, head, palpi, and forelegs in front ochreous-green ; palpi with a lateral linear 

 grey streak ; abdomen and legs above orange-yellow, beneath grey. Female darker 

 green, with transverse strigte, and oblique lines not bordered with chalybeous-grey; 

 with a series of large creamy-white spots on the discocellular area, another series 

 below the cell, a large patch at the posterior angle, and two small slender spots 

 below the apex, all partially crossed by slender olive-brown strigjB. 



Expanse 3 to oj inches. 



" Larva half -looped, slightly humped on the fifth, sixth, seventh, and twelfth 

 segments. Legs fourteen, with a rudimentary pair on seventh segment. Colour 

 dusky purplish-brown, blotched with very dark brown, and spotted with minute dots 

 of cobalt-blue; on each side of sixth and seventh segments is a large ocellus, the iris 

 being bright yellow in front and vermilion behind, pupil purplish-brown Avith a 

 crescent of cobalt-blue, and with a centre which is considerably darker than the rest. 

 The segments are also extensively marked with black and yellow patches of various 

 shapes." {Ward.) 



Genus ADR IS. 



Adris, Moore, Trans. Zool. Soc. xi. p. 69 (1881). 

 Forewing with the costa arched beyond the middle and slightly concave at the 



