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4720. Rhyncholita atripimcta, n. sp. 



Head and thorax greyish ochreous slightly tinged with rufous 

 niid irrorated with fuscous; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing greyish ochreous sliglitly tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by black points 

 on subcostal and median ncrvures ; a curved antemedial series of 

 black points ; orbicular and reniform small, black, the former 

 rather elongate elliptical, the latter round; a postmedial series of 



Fig. 130. — Rhyncholita atripuncta, (^ . \. 



black points, strongly bent outwards below costa, excnrved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white 

 with a faint flesh-coloured tinge ; a small black discoidal spot, post- 

 medial series of striae on the veins and terminal series of stria3 ; the 

 underside with the costal and terminal areas tinged with brownish 

 ochreous. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform with whitish 

 centres and black annuli. 



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 22 millim. 



Genus AMOLITA. 



lype. 



Amolita, Grote, Bull. BiifT. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. I.i8 (1^74) fes»„. 



Parvapenna, Kaye, Trans. Ent. Soc. lUOi, p. 120 sentalis. 



Proboscis aborted, .small ; palpi upturned, the 2ud joint reaching to vertex of 

 head and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennse of male typically bipectinate with moderate 

 branches to apex; thorax clothed with scales and hair mixed and without 

 crests; build slender ; tibi;e smoothly .scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex slightly produced and acute, the termenevenly curved and 

 not crenulate; vein 3 from well before angle of cell ; 5 from above angle; 6 

 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing witii 8 to form the areole ; II from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked : p obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. T. Antenna of male bipectinate with moderate branches to apex. 



A. Fore wing with brown fascia from base through the cell to 



apex. 



a. Fore wing white tinged with brown perstriata. 



/). Fore wing yellow suffused with rufous fessa. 



B. Fore wing witli oblique brown band from ajjex to middle 



of inner margin. 



a. Fore wing slightly irrorated with black aeiitaUs. 



b. Fore wing \ery strongly irrorated with black irruiuta. 



