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2553. Rhizotype vemota. ( I'late CV. tig. 1.) 



Ilodma rrniota, Pung. Iris, xii. p. LW, pi. U. f. 19 (1809) ; Staud. Cut. Lep. 

 pal. p. 171. 



S . Head and thorax luown mixed witli grey ; jialpi fuscou.s at, 

 side.s ; frons with lateral black bars ; anteniue black ; tegulic with 

 medial black line ; tij) of ])rothoracic crest dark ; abdomen brown, 

 dorsally irrorated with luscnu.';. the crests dark. Fore wing grey- 

 l)r(twn with tjliglit dark irroration, the medial area tinged with 

 rufous ; a strong sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line represented by two stria3 from costa and a very obli(iue striga 

 from cell ; anteniedial line doul)le at costa, then interrupted, oblicjue 

 in cell and emitting a short streak below subcostal nervure, strongly 

 excurved from submedian fold to inner margin ; claviform defined 

 by black, acute at extremity and with a strong black streak irom it 

 to postmedial line ; orbicular and reiiiforra very large and almost 

 conjoined, the former oblique elliptical, detined by black and open 

 above, the latter defined l)y black on inner side and below and with 

 some fuscous in centre, a black striga above it on costa ; postmedial 

 line indistinctly double, excurved and minutely dentate to vein 4. 

 then single, incurved and prominently black : subterminal line 

 indistinct, i)ale, defined by fuscous on inner side, slightly angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia brown with paler line at base. Hind 

 Ming fuscous brown ; cilia pale with a brown line near base ; the 

 underside grey irrorated with brown, a l)lackish discoidal lunule, 

 sinuous postmedial line, and series of terminal stria;. 

 Hah. Tibet, Kuku Noor, 1 J , Amdo. /y'.j;^'- "^"^ ^i^l''^^- 



2554. Rhizotype poliorhiza. (Plate CV. fig. 2.) 



OuciiUia po/iorhha, Hmpsn. J. Bomb. See. xiv. p. 202, pi. 13. f. 27 (1902\ 



5. Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with bluish grey; 

 frons with blackish bar ; tegulac; witli faint dark medial line ; 

 patagia with blackish outer edge ; abdomen dark brown slightly 

 mixed with greyish, the base pale. Fore wing with the ground- 

 colour bluish grey almost entirel)' sufl'used with dark brown and 

 thickly irrorated with black, the veins with slight dark streaks ; a 

 sinuous black streak below base of cell; subbasal line re})resented by 

 double oblique black stria; from costa; antemedial line blackish and 

 diffused from costa to submedian fold, angle dotitwards below costa, 

 oliliqne to submedian fold, then indistinctly double, angled inwards 

 oTi vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; claviform very 

 narrow, grey defined by black, acute at extremity ; orbicular and 

 reiiiform rather indistinctly defined by black, the former oblique, 

 its lower extremity produced and confluent with the latter which is 

 ])roduced at upper extremity ; jiostmedial line indistinct, double 

 filled in with greyish, oblique from costa to vein 7. then minutely 

 dentate, oblique below vein 4 and acutely angled inwards in 

 submedian fold, a minute black streak beyond it above vein 7 ; 



