70 THTEIDID^. 



THYRIDIDJE. 



Addaea trimeronalis, IJlk. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 10.) 

 Pyralis? trimeronalis, WII-. Cat. six. p. 916. 



Expanse ^ | inch. 



Male. Head and thorax pale red-brown ; ahdomeu oclireous. Wings pale red-brown, 

 closely striated with pale lines ; fore wing with a few dark scales on the costa and outer 

 margin. Underside of fore wing with some white specks on the costa and an indistinct dark 

 mark at end of cell. 



Rhodonenra inyrsusaliSj Wlk. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 2.) 

 Pyralis myrsusalis, 117/.-, Cat. xix. p. 892. 



Expanse 1-1^ inch. 



Grey-brown, more or less suffused witli pink or pale brick-red. Wings closely striated 

 with brown. Underside with the brown strife much more prominent. 



The forai idaliaVis, Wlk., has two or three small hyaline spots below tlic end of the cell 

 of fore wing, with an ochrcous streak below them and a single hyaline spot below that. 



Ehodoneura nitens, Butl. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 7.) 



Microsca nitens, Bull. Ann. N. U. 1887, xs. p. IIG. 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Male. Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white. Fore wing brownish white, suffused 

 with brown except on costa and inner margin, and slightly striated with brown ; ill-defined 

 antemcdial, medial, and postmedial golden-brown bands ; a whitish subapical mark with a 

 dark mark on its lower edge. Hind wing brownisli white with slight brown stria- ; a dark 

 medial band and indistinct postmedial and submarginal bands. Underside witli pioniincnt 

 cliestnut-])rown medial, postmedial, and submarginal bands to botii wings ; the costa of fore 

 wing with transverse and longitudinal fine black lines. 



Rhodoneura disparalis. (Plate CLXXI. fig. 11.) 



Expanse 1 inch. 



Female. Head and collar bright chestnut; thorax pale greyish brown. Wings pale fawn- 

 colour, suffused (especially beyond the middle) with chestnut, which colour forms an indistinct 

 band from the costa of the fore wing, of which it occupies the outer half except a consjiicuous 

 Mhitish triangular patch before the apex, to the inner margin of hind wing near anal angle, to 

 \\hi(h j)oiut it gradually narrows. 



