504 Col. C. Swiiilioe on Eastern Ileterocera. 



Heterabraxas rufonotaria. 



Metfihra.vas rufonotaria, Leech, Aun. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (0) xix. p. 451 



(1897). 



2 (£ , Kliasia Hills. 



The type came from Western China ; the markings on the 

 Khasia Hill examples are darker black, otherwise there is no 

 difference. 



Family Thyrididae. 

 Rhodoneura cundidatalis, nov. 



(J . Frons white ; head and thora.v brown, the latter white 

 hindwards ; abdomen and wings white^ the former with 

 indistinct clioculate-grey bands : fore wings with the costal 

 space smeared Avitii pale chocolate-brown, Avith many stria- 

 tious of the same colonr, these striations extending to the 

 base of the wing and on the basal half of the hinder margin ; 

 two duplex discal lines of the same colour, intertwined, near 

 each other on the costa near the apex, gradually separating 

 to the hinder margin, where the first is a little beyond the 

 middle and the other near the angle : hind wings with three 

 similar duplex lines, the first near the base, the second across 

 the middle, and the third across the disk. Underside same 

 as upperside, the lines more pronounced. 



Expanse of wings 1 f^ inch. 



Silchar, Cachar. 



Rhodoneura mollicellalis , nov. 



^ . Palpi, frons, head, and collar bright chestnut-red ; 

 body and wings of a uniform ochreous fawn-colour ; abdomen 

 Avith the penultimate segment white, the ultimate black, the 

 anal tuft white : both wings evenly irrorated and striated 

 with minute pale black marks ; a pale subapical mark on the 

 costa of fore wings, with two pure white spots obliquely 

 below it, these black dots in a line near the outer margin 

 above vein 5 ; some black dots in the centre and near outer 

 margin of hind wings ; ciUa of both wings dull chestnut- 

 red. Underside paler and more ochreous, the white costal 

 subapical spots on the fore wings confluent, forming a little 

 white patch, the striations and irroraiions mure sparse, but 

 both wings have many larger black dots ; legs Avhite beneath. 



Expanse of wings 1 ^\^ inch. 



Khasia Hills ; a fine series. 



The three black dots above vein 5 near the outer margin 

 of the fore wings are not always constant — in one example 

 there are only two and in another they arc all absent. 



