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Rhytia cocale. (Plate XII. figs. 5, ba, larva and pupa; Plate XIV. figs. 5, 5a, 

 imago d 2 •) 



Phal. Nod. cocalus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. p. 59, pi. cxxxiv. f. B (1779), c? • 

 Rlnjtia rocak, Hiibucr, Vcrz. bek. Scbmett. p. 2G1. 

 Uphhlvres cocalus, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 115, 6 . 

 Nortua maculata, Weber, Obscrvat. Entom. p. Ill (1801), $ . 

 Ophideres phma,\Nsi\\.er, Catal. Lcp. Hct. Brit. ]Mus. xiii. p. 1226, S- 



Male. Fore wing ochreous green, numerously covered with slender black transverse 

 strit'EC, those across the disk and on exterior margin grey-bordered ; crossed by a curved 

 antemedial and an oblique postmedial black line, both with chalybeous-grey inner 

 border; reniform mark indistinct: hind wing orange-yellow, with broad black mar- 

 ginal band and small white cilial spots and narrow streak at apex. Thorax, head, 

 palpi, and legs in front ochreous-green, palpi with a lateral linear grey streak ; abdomen 

 and legs above orange-yellow, beneath greyish. 



Female. Darker ochreous green, with a cluster of creamy-white spots on the disco- 

 cellular area, another series below the cell, a large patch at the posterior angle, and a 

 slender linear broken spot below the apex : hind wing and body as in male. 



Expanse 2J to 3 inches. 



Hah. India {Coromandel, Silhci) ; Java. 



This species has a similar pattern of markings to R. hypermnestra, but may easily be 

 distino-uished from it by the absence in the hind wing, in both sexes, of the two black 

 discal spots, and in the black marginal band extending to the anal angle, tlie inner 

 border of which is much less irregularly sinuous, and the row of cilial spots also are 

 much smaller ; the fore wing in the male has the two transverse lines more curved, 

 and the clusters of spots in the female are more confluent. It has been reared in Java 

 by Dr. Horsfield from larva feeding on a species of Epihatherium. 



Rhytia hypermnestra. (Plate XII. fig. 6, larva; Plate XIV. figs. 4, 4ff, imago 

 6 ?.) 



Phalana Noct. hi/permncstra, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. cecxxiii. f. A, B (1782). 

 Rhytia hypermnestra, Hubner,Verz. bek. Snbmett. p. 264. 

 Ophideres hypermnestra, Guenee, Noet. iii. p. 116; Walker, Catal. Hot. Brit. ]Mus. xiii. p. 1225. 



Male. Fore wing ochreous-green, numerously covered with slender blackish trans- 

 verse strigie ; crossed by a distinct antemedian and an oblique postmedian brown line ; 

 an indistinct dusky brown suffused reniform mark ; a curved grey streak below tlie 

 apex, and grey strigse above posterior angle; transverse lines with chalybeous-grey 

 inner border. Hind wing orange-yellow, with broad marginal black band, white cilial 

 row of spots and apical angle ; and two small black discal spots, the upper one oval, 

 the lower recurved. Tliorax, head, palpi, and fore legs in front ochreous-green, palpi 



