STRIGLINA; HYPOLAMPRUS; RHODONEURA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 373 



Wings entire, the forewing with pointed apex and hardly curved distal margin; both wmgs minutely pencil - 

 lated transversely, unicolorous, with the cell closed. 



D. albatalis Swinh. (50 e). White, with a slight silvery or greasy gloss; wings dusted all over with aJbaialis. 

 minute grey or slightly golden brown atoms, which are united in places to form a thin network with minute 

 meshes. Facies, rest-position of wings and flight entirely as in Pyrals. — Anterior India, Poona, Kanara. 

 I found the species at the foot of the Nilgiri Hills, but did not meet with it in Ceylon. Appears to be rarer 

 in Palearctic Kashmir than in tropical India. 



7. Gemis : ^Irig-liiia Ouen. 



Distributed in 5 species over the countries of the tropical zone; the only Palearctic species extends 

 northward to Japan and Amurland. Moths rather small, with the head relatively large and the medium- 

 sized palpi upturned. Frons with tuft of hair. Antenna of cj slightly incrassate and flattened. The tibiae 

 with long hair. Forewing broad, with the apex pointed and somewhat produced, and the distal margin almost 

 straight. Cell closed in both wings. 



S. scitaria Walk. (= ]pyrmia,ta. Walk., reticulata Walk., lineolaGwen., therm esioides*S'»teZ^., strigosa J/oore, seiiaria. 



navigatorum Feld., superior Bull., vi;iis Moore, strigipennis Moore, cancellata Christ.) (50f). Strongly variable 



in colouring, leather-yellow, rust-browai or yellowish grey, varying in appearance according to the density 



of the minute dark pencilling with which the wings are covered. Constant is a thin double line running 



obliquely across the wings from near the apex of the forewing to the middle of the abdominal margin of 



the hindwing, and being exteriorly shaded with a dark tone. On the hindwing, at the point where the line 



enters upon it, a thin line branches off which varies in distinctness and terminates at the outer margin, so 



that two apical thirds are separated from the anal third of the wing-surface. Underside of for wing with a 



white-centred median spot before the cell-apex. — Very widely distributed; from Amurland and Japan 



over India and the Malay Archipelago to Australia, and also on various South-Sea islands, usually abundant. 



Probably very lose to this species is Camadena polystacia Elw. Hamps. ((■ Dudg. collected during YoungHusband's 

 exp3dition to Tibet. But the species was apparently obtained before the expedition reached Palearctic territory; for that 

 reason we refer the species to the Indo -Australian part of this work (vol. X). 



8. Genus: Hypolaiupi'iis Hamps. 



Small and delicate moths with the facies of Pyrals, broad but short head, globular thorax, and pointed 

 conical abdomen. Palpi upturned, reaching beyond vertex ; the antenna of the o somewhat incrassate. Tibiae 

 smoothly scaled. The wings entire, the apex of the forewing rather pointed, the distal margin slightly curved; 

 the cell closed in both wings. — 14 species. are known; they are distributed from temperate Asia to Australia, 

 reaching the Palearctic Region in West China and in the Worth- Western Himalayas. 



H. subrosealis LeecJi (50 f). This species is unknown to me; we therefore bring a figure of the type suhrosealis. 

 in coll. Leech in the Brit. Mus. and repeat Leech's original description : "Primaries ochreous, strongly suffused 

 with pink, and traversed by several faint narrow brownish wavy lines, one of which beyond the blackish 

 discal spot is sharply elbowed; costa rather paler, spotted with linear patches of brown. Secondaries pinkish 

 red tinged with ochreous, and sprinkled with numerous faint dots arranged in transverse lines. Fringes pale 

 brown, chequered with dark brown. Under surface pale ochreous, tinged with pink and dotted and lined 

 with brown. E.xpanse, 20 mm. An example of each sex taken by my native collector at Ningpo, in June, 

 1886". 



H. striatialis^Sicm/i. (= intimalis il/ooj-e). In markings like a small -D. aZftatofo, but the colour uniformly s^ria^iaHs. 

 yellowish brown. The minute pencilling — which varies much individually — forms transverse lines and 

 sometimes a kind of median band. — Distributed throughout Anterior India to Kashmir, also in Ceylon; 

 often not rare. Size verj^ variable, but always inferior to that of D. albatalis and scarcely reaching that of 

 subrosealis. 



9. Genus : Rhodonciira Guen. 



Over a hundred species from all continents with the exception of Europe are placed into this genus. 

 The moths are mostly rather small, somewhat recalling Pyrals, and little variegated; the wings of the ordi- 

 nary type, i. e. the forewing triangular, broad, with acute apex, the hindwing relatively large, with evenly 

 rounded distal margin. Palpi upturned, segment 2 densely scaled, 3 short and naked. Tibiae smoothly scaled. 

 Veins 4 and 5 close together from near lower angle of cell, 6 — 10 from near upper angle; 3 and 4 of hind- 

 wing from near lower cell-angle, 6 and 7 from near upper angle. — Nothing is known of the early stages. 



R. guttata C/tm<. (50 f). This species, described by CnRiSTOPHas a (SencopAoro, has the general scheme ^uflafe. 

 of marking as in Bupalus piniarius. The pale discal spots visible in the figure are a little transparent, but 

 not vitreous. The hind tibia is inci'assate. ab. lucidolina Pouj., from Tibet and the neighbouring districts lucidMna. 

 of West China, is smaller and darker; but also in Amurland occur specimens which are much darker 



