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pink-speckled white patch on costa from before middle to near 

 apex with the two discocellular specks on it, the space between it 

 and subbasal patch and also beyond it darker than the ground- 

 colour; a dark-edged white submarginal line slightly excurved 

 between veins 6 and 2; the margin suffused with white, with 

 a marginal series of dark specks. Hind wing pale, suffused with 

 fuscous towards outer margin and with a dark marginal line. 



Hob. W. Africa ; Nagas ; Karachi ; Bombay ; Ceylon. Eocp. 

 18 millim. 



4416. Rhodophaea tenebralis, n. sp. 



$ . Fuscous brown irrorated with grey. Fore wing with the 

 cell and disk suffused with grey ; the medial dark line erect, 

 interrupted in cell and below median nervure; an obscure grey 

 patch with brown spot on it inside the line on inner area ; two 

 very prominent dark discocellular spots ; a minutely dentate dark 

 postmedial line excurved between veins 6 and 2 and with dentate 

 grey line on its outer edge ; a marginal series of dark specks. 

 Hind wing uniform semihyaline brown. 



Hob. Sikhim (Dudgeon). Exp. 26 millim. Type in B. M. 



4417. Rhodophaea rufimarginella, n. sp. 



$ . Head ochreous, the palpi pink at base ; collar purple ; thorax 

 dark brown. Fore wing very dark red-brown ; the basal area 

 suffused with purple ; an indistinct pale submarginal line joined at 

 outer angle to the bright red marginal band ; cilia brown. Hind 

 wing pale semihyaline brown ; the veins and margin dark ; a pale 

 line at base of cilia ; vein 7 becoming coincident with 8. 



Hob. Bhutan (Dudgeon). Exp. 14 millim. Type in B. M. 



Genus SPATULIPALPIA. 



Spatulipalpia, Hag. Mon. Phyc. p. 19 (1894). 



Type, 8. effosella, Eag. 



Range. N.B. and S. India ; Burma ; Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned, male usually with the 2nd and 3rd joints, or the 

 3rd joint only, fringed on both sides with long curved scales, which 

 form a large hollow on inner side ; vertex of head usually with a 

 large and deep hollow ; antennae usually with the basal joint dilated 

 and hollowed out, the shaft thickened and flattened ; anal tuft 

 large ; female with the palpi, vertex of head, and antenna normal. 

 Fore wing with vein 3 from near angle of cell ; 4, 5 closely approxi- 

 mated for a short distance ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing long, the 

 apex acute ; the cell extremely short, hardly one-fifth of wing ; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 on a long stalk, 7 anastomosing 



rongly with 8. 



