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grey, with pale edges spotted with ochreous ; two pale zigzag discal lines ; costal margin 

 black spotted with oclircons ; a marginal series of ochreous-cdged black dots : secondaries 

 shot with cupreous ; fringe grey, with a whitish basal line : head and abdomen ochreous ; 

 collar and thorax dark fuliginous brown, with a transverse white bar on the metathorax. 

 Wings below grey with golden reflections, irrorated with white ; costal margin of primaries 

 ochreous spotted with black : body below pale ochreous ; tarsi banded above with black. 

 Expanse of wings 17 millim. 

 Dharmsala. 



ANTHOPHILIDJi:. 



HYDKELIA, Guen. 



Hydrelia auripalpis. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 8.) 



Primaries dull chocolate -brown, traversed by four series of white dotSj the first and third 

 of which represent the outlines of the central belt ; the second dots of the second and fourth 

 series attached to small black spots ; four yellowish costal dots beyond the cell ; fringe 

 traversed by two dusky lines : secondaries greyish brown ; friugc slightly golden : body purplish 

 brown ; head and collar brownish testaceous ; palpi, front legs, and tibiie of second pair of 

 legs bright saffron-yellow ; pectus grey ; remainder of under surface shining brown. Expanse 

 of wings 18 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



Hydrelia opalescens. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 10.) 



Allied to the preceding species ; larger : the primaries more acuminate ; pale coflPee-brown 

 washed with lilac, the belt enclosed between the ordinary lines paler and therefore showing 

 the lilac tint more perfectly ; a short comma-like costal dash near the base ; a widely zigzag 

 line commencing at basal third of costa and terminating before the middle of inner margin ; 

 a second line commencing obliquely before tlie middle of costal margin, then turning and 

 following the subcostal vein almost to apex, then curved downwards, forming an elbow above 

 upper radial vein and returning obliquely to just beyond the middle of inner mary;in ; lastly, 

 a submargiual series of points, all pale lilac ; rcniform stigma represented by two small black- 

 centred lilac spots, almost forming a figure 8 ; a black apical spot ; fringe with a tawny basal 

 and a whitish subtcrminal line : secondaries whitish, with greyish ditl'uscd external border 

 and golden-testaceous fringe : thorax bright coffee-red ; abdomen opaline grey, with coffee- 

 coloured crest; palpi bright saffron-yellow, legs paler. Primaries below cupreous brown, 

 costal border golden, inner border dead white; fringe as above: secondaries with the apical 



