EHODOSTEOPHIA. — HTDATA. Ill 



? . Larger : the stripes on the ^iugs almost wlioUy grcyisli l)rowu instead of rose-red; 

 the discocellular spots indistinct. The under surface paler and nnich less suffused with red ; 

 the stripes below arc nevertheless almost as red as in the male. Expanse of wings 30 millim. 

 Dharmsala. 



Rhodostrophia rara. (Plate CXXXVII. fig. 2.) 



(J . Primaries oehrcous ; an abbreviated dusky stripe at basal third from inner margin : 

 a black discocellular dot ; a dull rosy discal band with dark inner edge ; a submarginal series 

 of dusky <-sliapcd markings; a dark red-brown marginal line; fringe shining cupreous 

 browu, with a dark leaden-grey central stripe : secondaries creamy oehreous, whitish towards 

 base ; a black discocellular dot ; a double rosy-brown band represented by two parallel 

 stripes beyond the cell ; a submarginal series of rosy-browu dashes, and a marginal series of 

 darker browu dashes ; fringe paler than in primaries : body creamy oehraceous, with slightlv 

 darker bands ; face red-brown ; antcnn;e pale golden with testaceous pectinations. "U' ings 

 below shining golden ochraceous, with purplish discocellular litura; ; a darker bordered rosy 

 band beyond the middle, a submarginal series of rose-red <-shaped markings, and a marginal 

 series of dashes of the same colour ; fringes shining rosy lilaeine, traversed by a dark grey 

 stripe and with yellow basal line ; front of pectus deep oclireous. Expanse of wings 29 

 millim. 



Dharmsala. 



Of this very distinct species Mr. Hocking only obtained one male, which he included in 

 his series of R. stigmatica. 



CABERID^. 



HYDATA, irulk* 



Hydata amplipennis. (Plate CXXXVI. fig. 18.) 



(J . Very similar in form to that sex of H. suhfenestraria, the primaries having the inner 

 border expanded so as to cover a great part of the costal half of the secondaries, as in the 

 Euplwince among the Rhopaloeera; the antennic, however, are less distinctly pectinated than 

 in the New-World species ; very pale buff, the wings, excepting towards the middle, irrorated 

 with purplish brown, a slender dark brown marginal line, interrupted at the extremities of 

 the nervures ; black discocellular dashes. Primai'ics crossed just beyond the basal third bv 

 an indistinct straight brown line ; an irregularly nndulated dark browu line near the outer 



* This geuus may be placed next to Steyania. 



