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CXLII. RHODOSOMA.-Typiis : triopx.-^. 



Macvofihmi, Westwood {iinii Ochsenheimer. ISlii). O///. Or. E,ii. p. 14 (1848). 

 Rhodoanma Butler, Trans. Znol. iSoc. Loml. ix. p. ."i.".4 (1877) (typus : trinpim). 



(??. Genal process lar.sT, triaiiunlar, reaolnog tij) of pilifer. Head witli an 

 indication of a mesial crest, smoothly scaled like thorax and abdomen. Eye lashed. 

 I'aljins broad bnt rather sliort, obtuse, resembling tiie palpus of ^^nrro(|Ifl■tft)lm, but 

 not pointed. Antenna long and slender, setiform, cylindrical in ?, hook gradually 

 curved ; end-segment short, conical, witii a number of long bristles, not produced 

 into a filamentous process. Abdomen flattened, more so than in Vi~iira ardeni'ie, 

 stumi)y, appearing truncate, segments short, especially the last ones, stcrnites 

 emarginate : spines flat, very Mrong on tergites and sternites, those of first row 

 about half as long again as broad, rounded, tliis armature approaching that of 

 ^^arl^o(|lossl(ln. Merum of midcoxa not angulate or carinate ; til)iae simple, 

 spurs unequal, longer terminal one of hindtibia 1 ss tban half the first tarsal 

 segment : this as long as segments 2 to 4 together ; hindtarsus with additional 

 externo-laternl spines ; spines of comb of niidtarsus slightly prolonged, stout ; 

 jiulvilius and ])aronychium normal. Wings entire : hindwing short, cell about 

 lialf as long again as apically broad, cn)ss-veins ol)liiine, 11" before centre, R-' and 

 W almost from a point. 



S . Tenth segment elongate, slender, tergite scarcely curved, apex rounded : 

 sternite a little broader than tergite and somewhat shorter, with almost parallel 

 sides, apex rounded, the apical edge cnrved a little upwards and a])pearing feel)ly 

 sinuate in distal aspect. Clasper little curved, apex rounded, no friction-scales ; 

 liarpe of the same type as in Rethera and Cizara, the process nearly as broad as 

 in Cizara sculpta, its ventral margin, which is bent upwards, serrate. Penis-sheath 

 ending in a long, pointed, curved process (PI. LV. f. 14). 



?. Vaginal plate narrowed at end ; orifice covered by a ]irominent ]>roxinial 

 ridge, which is sinuate in middle. 



Early stages not known. 



Hah. North India. 



One species. 



.")4:>. Rhodosoma triopus. 



*.U,irrn;//nR.-^a Irinpus Westwood, Ciih. Or. E,il. p. 14. t. C. f. 4 (1S48) (Assam, ? ;-Mui=. Oxford) : 

 Walk., List Lep. Im. II. J/, viii. p. 95. n. 18 (I8.ji;) (Silhet) ; Moore, I'm,: Zn«L Soc. Lnml. 

 p. 07(j (18(15) (Bengal) ; Boisd., Spec. Gen. Up. Uet. i. p. .S61. n. 48 (1875). 



IthndoKoma Iriapux, Butler, Trans. Zuot. Soc. Limd. ix. p. 534 (1877) ; Maass., Strtl. Knf. /Ceil. xll. 

 xli. p. 53 (1880) : Cot. ct Swinb., Cut. .Vol!,.-< hid. i. p. 7. n. 3(i (1887) : Kirby, Cat. Le/,. Ilel. 

 i. p. i;3:5. n. 1 (1892) (N. India) : Haa.ps., in Blanf., Faiuut Brit, hid., Mollis i. p. 12li. n. 20s 

 f. 71 ((J) (1892) (Sikhim ; Assam) ; Swinh., Cut. Lep. Het. .Miih. Ox. i. p. 8. n. 81 (1892) 

 (Assam, ti/pe) ; Dudg., Journ. Bombay N. H. Sue. xi. p. 419. n. 208 (1898) (Sikhim ; Bhutan). 



(? ? . The creamy white stripes of the metanotnm, the red interrupted belt and 

 side-s])uts (if the abdomen, the short ochraceous-yellow abdominal tufts, the square 

 semivitreous spot of the forewing and the large white costal patch of the hindwing, 

 as well as the rufous-red underside of the body and hindwings, give the insect a 

 l>eculiar appearance. 



Huh. Assam ; Bhutan ; Sikhim. 



Ill thr Tring Museum Ki ^^^ \ ? from: I'.nxa, P.liutan ; Sikhim: Khasiu 

 Hills. 



