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Genus RHIMPHALEA. 

 Rhimphalea, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 410. 



Type, 11. scelatalis, Led., from Australia. 



Range. Oriental region, except peninsular India and Ceylon. 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint broadly fringed in front, the 3rd 

 short with a small triangular tuft in front ; maxillary palpi well 

 developed and filiform ; paired tufts of hair behind the eyes ; frons 

 flat and oblique ; antenna annulated and somewhat longer than 

 the fore wing ; legs long and slender, the outer spurs about half 

 the length of inner ; abdomen long, the claspers and anal tuft 

 very largely developed. Pore wing with veins 3, 4, 5 well sepa- 

 rated at origin ; 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9 for a short 

 distance, 10 also approximated to 8, 9. Hind wing with the cell 

 about half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



4821. Rhimphalea trognsalis, Wlk, Cat. xviii, p. 711. 

 Pinacia ocularis, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 136, fig. 20. 

 Spilomela ommatalis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 235, & xxvii r 



pi. 4, fig. 5. 

 Botys megalopsalis, C. $ S. no. 4065 (nee Wlk.). 



Whitish ; palpi black, the 3rd joint white ; frons black at sides ; 

 Uurax striped with black-brown : abdomen with lateral black- 

 brown spots towards base and dorsal bands towards extremity. 



Tore wing with the costal 

 area fuscous ; an ill-defined 

 antemedial diffused line 

 broken up into streaks below 

 the cell ; a large purplish- 

 black spot in end of cell with 

 white pupil ; veins 2 to 7 

 streaked with brown to near 

 the postmedial band, which 



towards costa, and develops into a patch between vein 2 and inner 

 margin, where it has a spot inside it ; an almost marginal band 

 from just below the costa tapering to vein 2. Hind wing with the 

 median nervure at end of cell and discocellulars brown ; the veins 

 beyond lower angle slightly streaked with brown ; a slightly waved 

 postmedial band, widest towards costa, and slightly excurved 

 between veins 5 and 2 ; the apex and margin towards anal angle 

 fuscous. Underside of fore wing with pale yellow suffusion round 

 the ocellus. 



Hob. Dharmsala ; Sikhim ; Khasis ; Andamans ; Manilla ; 

 Borneo ; Celebes. Exp. 30 millim. 



4822. Rhimphalea ochalis, Wlk. Cat. xviii, p. 711. 



Spilomela strabonalis, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. xxiii, p. 230. 



Differs from trogusalis in the whole Jiead, thorax, and abdomen. 



