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slight brown striae ; a marginal pink line. Fore wing with the 

 outer margin slightly excurved at veins 2, 3, 4 ; an ochrec^s patch 

 irrorated with pink beyond and below the end of cell, with two 

 pairs of hyaline spots on it and a single spot below them. Under- 

 side silvery grey ; the striations of the hind wing and those on the 

 patch of fore wing bright chestnut and prominent. 

 Hob. Ceylon. Exp. 16 millim. 



778. Rhodoneura nitens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xx, 1887, p. 116 ; 



Hmpm. III. Het. ix, pi. 171, fig. 8. 



Pharamhara hamifera, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 213 ; C. $ S. no. 4380. 

 Microsca marginepunctalis, Leech, Entom. 1889, p. 66, pi. 4, fig. 10. 



^ . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white. Fore wing 

 white, suffused with olive or pale red-brown, especially beyond the 

 cell, and evenly striated with dark lines ; indistinct anternedial, 

 medial, and submarginal bands ; a white patch striated with dark 

 lines at or just below the apex, with a black line or patch on its 

 lower edge. Hind wing similar but less clouded, and with medial 

 and submarginal bands only. Underside paler, the bands bright 

 chestnut-brown : fore wing with series of longitudinal and trans- 

 verse black costal striae ; a large apical red-brown patch with a 

 large white hamate mark on it ; some goMen scales on the retina- 

 culum and silvery scales on subcostal nervure from middle to 

 end of cell : hind wing with medial, postmedial, and submarginal 

 bands. 



Hob. Nilgiris ; Ceylon ; Japan ; Solomons. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



779. Rhodoneura pallida, Butl 111 Het. iii, p. 71, pi. 58, fig. 7. 



. Differs from nitens in being paler. Fore wing suffused and 

 striated with pale reddish brown ; the apical patch red-brown, 

 with the white black-edged strigae small ; the submarginal band of 

 both wings regular, with a pale centre. 



Hob. Japan ; Sikhim ; Assam. Exp. 24 millim. 



780. Rhodoneura glaphyralis, n. sp. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen variegated pale yellow and 

 brown. Wings pale yellow, striated with reddish brown, which 

 forms ill-defined medial and submarginal bands to both wings ; the 

 submarginal band not continued on apical area of fore wing ; six 

 or seven short bands from the costa of fore wing to subcostal 

 nervure. Underside of fore wing with black and white streaks en 

 the subcostal nervures in the cell and beyond the upper angle. 



Hob. Sikhim (Moller). Exp. 34 millim. Type in coll. Elwes. 



781. Rhodoneura exusta, Butl. HI Het. iii, p. 71, pi. 58, fig. 8. 

 Microsca ardens, Butl. III. Het. iii, p. 71, pi. 58, fig. 9. 

 Microsca exusta, var. erecta, Leech, Entom. 1889, p. 66, pi. 4, fig. 3. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen chestnut. Wings chestnut, striated 



