GUKELCA. EHOPALOPSYCHE. Ill 



costal streak intersected by a forked, slightly gilded line ; an 

 undulated gilded subrnarginal line. Hind wing with part of the 

 base dark, the yellow band with curved margin. 

 Hub. Sikhira. Exp. 48 millini. 



SECT. II. The costa of hind wing very slightly excised 

 before the apex. 



176. Gurelca pnsilla, Butl P. Z. 8. 1875, p. 244 ; C. $ 8. no. 38. 

 Lophura pumilio, Boisd. Spec. Gen. i. p. 311 ; C. fy S. no. 39. 



cJ . Differs from hyas in there being a black spot at end of cell of 

 fore wing ; a broad, oblique dark band from costa beyond the cell 

 to centre of inner margin. Hind wing with the marginal baud 

 red-brown. Underside ; fore wing with the marginal band narrow 

 at outer angle ; hind wing with medial and postmedial curved 

 lines ; no marginal band. 



Hob. Cachar ; Sylhet. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus RHOPALOPSYCHE. 



Rhopalopsyche, Butl. P. Z. S. 1875, p. 239. 



Type, R. nycteris, Koll. 



Range. Himalayas and Peninsular India. 



Antenna clubbed, the basal half thin, the hook short and slight : 

 with no bands of cilice in male. Palpi with the apex porrect and 

 acutely scaled ; fore wing not more than twice the length of 

 antennae, the outer margin excurved. "Flight diurnal. 



177. Rhopalopsyche nycteris, Koll. Hug. Kaschm. iv, p. 458, pi. 19, 



fig. 5 ; C. $ S. no. 8. 

 Macroglossa volucris, Wlk. Cat. viii, p. 94. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; abdomen with lateral 

 yellow bands on the first three segments ; the penultimate segment 

 fringed with white; four lateral tufts in- 

 creasing in size posteriorly, the first two 

 white, the others black tipped with orange, 

 anal tufts black. Fore wing grey-brown ; 

 some subbasal indistinct lines ; an antemedial 

 band, recurved towards the base at inner 

 margin ; three postmedial curved lines ; a 

 square brown spot on the costa before the 

 apex, with a black spot below it, from which 

 a waved oblique line runs to the apex. Hind 

 wing black-brown with a broad medial ellow 



Fig. M. Rhopalopsyche 



nycteris, 3. \. Hal. Himalayas; Khasis; Burma. Exp. 



41 millim. 



