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CXLII. RHODOSOMA.— Typiis : tnopus. 



Macroglimi, Westwood {nn,i Ochsenheimer, IRlfi), Cah. Or. Eiit. p. 14 (18481. 

 Rhoilosonin Butler. Trims. Xonl. Siii\ Lnml. ix. p. r)."4 (1877) (typus : iriiipim). 



(? ? . rienal process lare'c, tTiuii.u'iilar, veaching' tip of pilifrr. Head with an 

 indiration of a mesial orest, smoothly scaled like thorax and abdomen. Eye lashed. 

 Palpus broad bnt rather short, obtnse, resembling tlic jialpns of }fnrvo(ilo>:xt(m, bnt 

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

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

 into a filameutons process. Abdomen flattened, more so than in Ciznra ardeniae, 

 stumpy, appearing truncate, segments short, especially the last ones, sternites 

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

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

 Macror/lossiim. Merum of midcoxa not angnlate or carinate ; tibiae simple, 

 spurs unequal, longer terminal one of hindtibia 1 -is than half the first tarsal 

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

 externo-lateral spines ; spines of comb of midtarsus slightly prolonged, stout ; 

 pulvillus and jiaronychinm normal. Wings entire : hindwing short, cell about 

 half as long again as ajiically broad, cross-veins obliipie, R'^ before centre, W and 

 M' 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 curved a little upwards and a]>pearing feebly 

 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 i'izarn scxljita, its ventral margin, which is bent upwards, serrate. Penis-sheath 

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



?. Vaginal jilate narrowed at end ; orifice covered by a prominent proximal 

 ridge, which is sinuate in middle. 



Early stages not known. 



Hal). North India. 



One species. 



r)43. Rhodosoma triopus. 



* .Varrw/lnxm Irln/ms Westwood, Cah. Or. Eiit. p. 14. t. (i. f. 4 ( 1K48) (Assam, ? ; - Mup. Oxford) : 

 Walk., /.;»/ f.)-/,. Jm: II. J/, viii. p. 96. n. 18 {\KA\) (Silhel) ; Moore, Pmr. Xunl. Sue. Limd. 

 p. i;7r. (18(;,0) (Uengal) : Boiad., .S>c.-. Gin. Uji. lift. i. p. .'iGl. n. 48 (1H75). 



ItlKKlfimiina Irinjiun, Butler, Trann. /Cool. Soc. Liniil. i.x. p. ij34 (1877) ; Maass., Sli-ll. lull. Zril. xli. 

 xli. p. .W (IHKD) ; Cot. & Swinb., Cal. .Mollis Iml. i. p. 7. n. ?A (1887) ; Kirby, Cnl. Lei,. Uil. 

 i. p. (B:!. n. 1 (I8!I2) (N. India) ; Hauips., in Blanf., Fiiium Bril. Jnrl., Mothx i. p. ]2l'. b. 2()« 

 f. 71 (cJ) (1H!IL') (Slkhirn ; Assam); Swinh., Cnl. Lej,. Ilcl. Miin. O.e. i. p. 8. n. .'il (1892) 

 (Assam. <///«■) : Uudg., ./ourit. Homhuij N. II. Hoc. xi. p. 4iy. n. 208 (1898) (Sikhim : Bhutan). 



S ?. The creamy white strijies of the metanotuni, the red interrn])tcd belt and 

 hi<le-spotw of the abdomen, the short ochraceous-yellow ubdomiual tufts, the square 

 nemivitreous sjiot of the forewing and the large white costal jiatch of the hindwing, 

 ns well iis th(! rnfons-red underside of the bmly and liindwings, give the insert a 

 pccidiar appearance. 



lluh. Assam ; IJhntan ; iSikhim. 



Ill the Tring Miisenni K! Jc?, 1 ? from: I'.nxa, I'.lintan ; Sikhim: Kliasia 

 Hills. 



