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wing being darker ; a white speck in the cell ; the postmedial line 

 straighter, with the band beyond it whiter ; some white marginal 

 specks. Hind wing white, with the apical black area very large, 

 and broad as far as vein 2 ; the costal and inner areas blackish. 

 Hab. W. and S. India; Ceylon. Exp. 34 millim. 



Genus RHYNCHINA. 

 Rhynchiaa, Guen. Delt. et Pyr. p. 20 (1854). 



Type, R. pionealis, Guen. 



Range. Palsearctic and Oriental regions ; W. Africa ; Australia. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint very long and fringed with long hair on 

 upperside, the 3rd obliquely upturned and scaled to half its 

 length ; a sharp frontal tuft ; metat borax with a slight tuft ; 

 abdomen without tufts ; tibiaB not hairy. Pore wing long and 

 narrow ; the apex acute, the outer margin oblique ; no raised tufts 

 in cell. Hind wing with vein 5 from above lower angle of cell. 



SECT. I. Antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate, 

 with long cilia. 



A. Palpi long , fringed with shortish hair above ; fore winy with outer 



margin obliquely curved. 



2911. Rhynchina abducalis, Wlk. Cat. xvi, p. 66 ; C. $ S. no. 2861 . 

 Hypena undulalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1138 ; C. fy S. no. 2921. 

 Hypena curviferalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1510. 

 Hypena columbaria, Butl. HI. Het. ii, p. 55, pi. 38, fig. 7. 

 Hypena vigens, Butl. III. Het. ii, p. 55, pi. 38, fig. 4. 

 Hypena incurvata, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 189 ; C. $ S. no. 2883. 

 Hypena angustalis, Wan: P. Z. S. 1888, p. 317 ; C. $ S. no. 2862 A. 

 Hypena curvilinea, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 98, pi. 148, fig. 18. 



Pale reddieh brown or grey. Pore wing with a curved dark and 

 pale line from apex to below angle of cell, and thence to base, and 

 with two or three less distinct dark lines outside it ; the area above 

 it suffused with brown, the veins paler ; dark specks at middle and 

 end of cell ; a dark marginal line. 



In abducalis and curviferalis the curved line is almost straight 

 from vein 4 to 1 ; in the former the dark suffusion above it is very 

 prominent, and with a pale and dark line on its upper edge, the 

 veins more prominently pale. In curvilinea from the Nilgiris the 

 ground-colour is greyish white ; the markings of fore wing very 

 prominent, and the line evenly curved. 



Hab. Japan ; China; Chusan Isl. ; throughout India; Anda- 

 rnans ; Java. Exp. 36-38 millim. 



B. Palpi shorter, fringed with long hair above ; fore wing with the 



outer margin straight and less oblique. 



-!lL>. Rhynchina striga, Feld. Eeis. Nov. pi. 109, fig. 29: C. & S. 



no. L'JMM). 



Horiniau morosa, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv, p. 446. 

 Bright brownish ochreous ; the male darker than the female. 



