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C;LI. RHOPALOPSYCHE.— Typus : nijcterh. 



Mtii'i-di/hnsd, Kollar {nun Ochsenheimer, 1816), in Hiigel, Knsi'Iiniir iv. 2. p. 4.'iS (IR44). 

 Jtlitijxihijinijche Butler, Pror. ZnoL Sur. Loud. p. 23',t (1875) (type: nyrteris). 



c? ? . Autenua very thiu at base, strougly clubbed, proximal segments scaled 

 also ventrally, uo prolonged ciliae in either sex, the autenua of c? being like those 

 of ? , only longer and rather more strongly clubbed. 



J/aL India and (_'hina. 



Closely allied to Mavroglossum. 



Two species. 



617. Rhopalopsyche nycteris. 



Miirruijlnssa nijcteris Kollar, in Hiigel, Knschmir iv. 2. p. 458. t. 19. f. 5 (1844) ; Boisd., Spei:. Gen. 



Leji. Hit. i. p. 342. n. 16 (1875) (Silhet : Darjiling ; Kashmir \ = rolwris). 

 *Macrn<jluxm volncris Walker, List Lep. Ins. B. .if. viii. p. 94. n. 16 (1856) (Silhet; X. India ;— 



Mus. Brit.). 

 Jiliiipaluiisi/che ni/i/teri.s. Butler, Trans. Zoitl. Sor. Loml. i.\. p. 523. n. 2 (1877) (Silhet ; N. India; 



Barrackpore) ; id., Pror. Zonl. Soa. Loml. p. 378. n. 92 (1886) (Murree ; viii. ix., common ; 



Campbellpore, xi.) ; Cot. & Swinh., Cat. .Voths Iml. i. p. 2. n. 8 (1887) (Sikhim ; Kha,si;i Hills ; 



Shillong : Kulu ; etc.) ; Swinh., Cat. Lep. lid. Mas. 0.l: i. p. 2. n. 8 (1892) (Silhet) ; Hamps., 



in Blanf., Firuna Brit. IwL, Muths i. p. 111. n. 177. fig. 66 {^) (1892) (Himalayas; Khasis ; 



Burma) ; Kirby, Cat. Lrp. Het. i. p. Ii34. n. 2 (1892) (N. India) ; Leech, Trans. Ent. Sor. Lnml. 



p. 291. n. 75 (1898) (W. China, July) ; Dudg., ,/.)«/■«. Bombai/ N. //. Soc. xi. p. 417. n. 177 



(1898) (Sikhim : Bhutan, .5000—10.000 ft., v. vii.). 



(J ¥ . Abdominal side-patches and band of hindwing maize-yellow. 



S- Tenth abdominal tergite slender, pointed, of the same general form as iu 

 Mttcroglossiim ; sternite ronnded at end. Clasper without friction-scah's ; hnrpe 

 slender, pointed, somewhat grooved longitudinally on the upperside. Penis-sheath 

 with a very long pointed process, curving at least half round the sheath ; base of 

 process projecting, with few teeth, ]iroximal and distal edges of process dentieidate; 

 internal rods obtuse at end, the longer one clubbed, denticulate at one edge. 



Ilab. N.W. and M. India; Burma; China. 



Iu the Tring Museum \~ S i , 17 ?? from: Kulu; 8abatliu ; Allahabad; 

 Sikhim; Khasia Hills; Buxa, Bhutan; Ta-tsieu-lu, (Jhina ; Loo Choo Is. 



(il!^. Rhopalopsyche bifasciata. 



*l(hopalnps!irlir bi/asciuta Butler, Pruc. ZaoJ . Soc. Land. p. 239. n. 3. t. 36. f. 4 (1875) (S. India;— 

 Mus. Brit.) ; id., Tram. Zo„J. .Sw. Land. ix. p. 523. n. 1 (1877) ; Cot. & Swinh., Cat. Mollis 

 1ml. i. p. 2. n. 7 (1887) (S. India) ; Hanips., llliislr. Ti/p. Hpreim. Lep. Met. B. M. viii. p. 1 

 (1891) (Nilgiris, 6001) - 7000 ft., i. ii. vi.) ; id., iu Blanf., Fauna Brit. Ind., .Moths i. p. 1 12. n. 

 178 (1892) (Nilgiris) ; Kirby, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 634. n. 1 (1892) (S. India). 



S ? . Abdominal side-patches and band of hindwing deep chrome ; underside of 

 wings ferruginous tawny. 



Hah. Ceylon and South India. 



In the Tring Museum S cJtJ, 1 ? from Ceylon and South India. 



Perhaps not specifically distinct from nycteris. 



