BHYNCHOPALPUS. 143 



SECT. I. Palpi very long. 



1535. Rhynchopalpus argentalis, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 89 j 



G. $ S. no. 4500. 



Palpi black, the end of 2nd joint and 3rd white. Head 

 and thorax white, the latter spotted with black ; abdomen pale 

 fuscous. Fore wing white, suffused with fuscous and irroratecl 

 with silvery scales ; a large basal blackish patch ; another on the 

 central costal area ; some marginal blackish suffusion ; traces of 



antemedial, medial, postmedial, 

 and submarginal waved lines. 

 Hind wing pale fuscous ; a dark 

 line on discocellulars ; cilia of 

 both wings chequered pale and 

 dark fuscous, the tips dark. 



Larva pale yellow, the 1st and 

 Fig. 95. terminal somite orange ; paired 



EJiynchopalpus arg entails, $. \. black dorsal spots on 3rd somite 



and single spots on 6th, 10th, 



and llth somites; a tuft of reddish hair from behind the head, to 

 which are attached the various cast skins of the head, the first 

 moult at the apex and the others at intervals ; thus mimicking 

 a Coccid which lives on the same leaves and carries its exuviae on 

 the anal segments. The tuft of hair with the exuviae of head is 

 attached to the cocoon, which is spun on a twig and covered with 

 scales of bark (Harford, Dudgeon}. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas ; Sikhim. Exp. 34 millim. 



1536. Rhynchopalpus dentatus, n. sp. 



2 Head, thorax, and abdomen whitish ; thorax with the vertex 

 more or less suffused with fuscous ; abdomen with fuscous dorsal 

 tufts. Fore wing pale brown ; a broad fuscous medial band edged 

 with black, the orbicular and reniform spots formed by tufts of 

 raised white scales, the band sends a long tooth outwards beyond 

 the lower angle of cell and has a diffused white band beyond it, 

 then a blackish band with a lunulate white line on its outer edge ; 

 a lunulate black marginal line ; cilia fuscous, with pale streaks at 

 the veins. Hind wing pale fuscous ; a curved medial black line 

 bent inwards below the cell. 



Hab. Dalhousie (Harford). Exp. 34 millim. 



1537. Rhynchopalpus brunellus, Hmnsn. III. Het. ix, p. 89, pi. 158, 



fig. 31. 



Head and thorax white, slightly irrorated with black, the collar 

 sometimes banded with black; abdomen brownish white. Fore 

 wing white, suffused with pale brown and irrorated with black ; 

 oblique ante- and postmedial series of black specks ; a marginal 

 series of specks ; traces of a pale submarginal line ; the brown 

 suffusion deepest on costa before the postmedial specks and on the 



