52 LEUCANIID^.— XYLOPHASIID^. 



the cell ; a transverse series of short elongated blackish clots on the veins ; fringe grey, 

 sericeous, shot with pink : secondaries pale brownish grey, silvery on costa ; fringe whitish, 

 traversed by a grey stripe ; margin and fringe tinted with pink : body white ; head, collar, 

 and anus slightly greyish, edged with pink ; tlie collar traversed by two dark grey lines. 

 Primaries below shining rosy whitish, the discoidal area, excepting the median streak, 

 blackish, the internal borders white; fringe dark grey: secondaries shining white; costal and 

 apical areas pink irrorated with black ; fringe tinted with pink at apex : body below dull 

 flesh-pink. Expanse of wings 35 millim. 

 Dharmsala ; at sugar. 



TYMPANISTES, Moore. 

 Tympanistes riibidorsalis. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 5.) 

 Tympanistes rubidorsalis, Moore, I'roc. Zool. Soc. 1SS8, p. 409. 



Nearly allied to T. pallida : primaries broader, with more angulated outer margin, pale 

 yellowish brown irroi'ated with dark brown, sericeous, more or less tinted with pink, thinly 

 scaled ; a brown annulus at the end of the cell and two very faintly indicated, irregularly 

 sinuated, grey lines representing the central bell: secondaries white, transparent, with rosy 

 abdominal area : head and thorax whity brown ; abdomen rose-red, with the margins of the 

 posterior segments and the sides pure white. Under surface white; wings sericeous, pearly ; 

 tarsi brownish. Expanse of wings 50 millim. 



Dharmsala ; at sugar. 



" Makes a noise like a small policemau's rattle." 



XYLOPHASIID^. 



XYLOPHASIA, S/rjjh. 



Xylophasia repetita. (Plate CXXVII. figs. 1, 2.) 



Allied to X hepatka of England, redder, the black markings replaced by red-brown ; 

 the reniform spot blackish with a pale border ; the pale subbasal stripe of the primaries 

 crossing the wing, not interrupted by a blackish internal ])atch as in X. hepatica ; the 

 outlines of the central belt more oblique; the submarginal pale stripe indistinct, bounded 

 internally by a complete series of red-brown spots in pairs and followed by a series of longi- 

 tudinal blackish dashes instead of the black marginal spots: secondaries gradually darker 

 from the middle to the outer margin, but with no defined external border; a series of dusky 

 marginal lunules followed by a pale tawny line at the base of the fringe. Female like the 

 male, or else almost exactly like A', laterilia of Europe. Expanse of wings 1.2-50 niillini. 



Dharmsala; at sugar in July : a rare si>eeies. 



