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connected-conical brown or black spots, followed by a white stripe at tlic base of the fringe ; 

 remainder of fringe grey, darker at tlie end of tbe veins, and traversed by a slender whitisli 

 line : secondaries pale sericeous grey, slightly darker at apex ; fringe creamy whitisli ; body 

 grey; palpi bi'own. Primaries below sliining grey, with golden brown reflections; costal margin 

 beyond the middle black, spotted with pure white ; fringe more uniformly coloured and more 

 sericeous than above : secondaries sordid whitish or whity brown, irrorated with darker 

 scales, and with a slender black marginal line : body below whitish grey. Expanse of wings 

 29 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



A common species, somewhat resembling a Plusia or Phisiodotita. 



■ RhyucMna sagittata. (Plate CXXXIII. figs. 10, 11.) 



Primaries reddish to greyish brown, the basal half dotted with black scales ; an irre- 

 gularly sinuated, partly black-edged silver-greyish stripe (obsolete in the male) across the 

 basal third ; a short, oblique, ill-defined costal bar united to an indistinct B-shaped " rcni- 

 form" spot, and followed immediately by an unequally angulated, oblique, partly black-edged 

 subsigmoidal central stripe ; an acutely denticulated discal stripe near outer margin, and a 

 squamosa external border (all these markings are silvery or ash-grey in the female ; in tlie 

 male they are indistinct or wanting) ; three black subapical sagittate markings, the central 

 one continued in an oblique line to apex ; costal margin towards apex blackish with pale 

 spots; fringe nearly as in the pi'cceding species : secondaries pale brownish grey; basi-costal 

 area and fringe sordid white : thorax corresponding in colour with the jJrimaries ; abdomen 

 grey. Primaries below sericeous grey ; costa irrorated with paler scales : secondaries sordid 

 white, iiTorated with greyish-brown scales and with a discocellular lunxdeof the same colour ; 

 a slender blackish marginal line : body below silvery white. Expanse of wings, d 28, $ 31 

 millim. 



Dliarmsala; taken by beating. 



Somewhat allied to R. plusioides, and equally abundant ; a singular variety occurs in 

 which there is a large basi-intern al whitish oblong patch on the primaries. 



Rhynchiua caerulescens. (Plate CXXXIII. fig. 12.) 



Primaries pale pearly bluish, irrorated and banded with coffee-brown; two dark grey 

 conical spots dividing the costal border into three nearly equal parts ; discoidal spot rounded, 

 outlined in brown, and connected with the inner margin by two oblique coffee-brown lines, 

 the inner one opposite to the inner costal grey spot and connected with it by a pearly-whito 

 angular stripe, the outer one followed by a pearly-white stripe enclosing a darker brown 

 line ; a diffused brown band tapering from inner margin near external angle to the outer 

 margin just below the apex; three longitudinal costal blackish dashes just before the apex; 



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