EHABINOPTEEyx. 287 



Genus RHABINOPTERYX. ^^ ^ 



Ehabinopteryx, Christ. Eom. Mem. t. p. 32 (1889) tilrauica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, reaching about to middle 

 of frons and moderately fringed with scales in front, the 3rd joint short ; 

 frons with rounded prominence with large corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennse of male almost simple, with tuft of long hair from basal joint 

 in front ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the prothorax without crest, the 

 metathorax with spreading crest ; build slender ; tibite slightly fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen without crests. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, 

 the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 and 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole : 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform present turanica. 



B. Fore wing with the reniform absent mbtilis. 



3899. Rhaljinopteryx turanica. 



Ligia turanica, Ersch. Fedtsch. Reise, p. 67, pi. 4. f. 69 (1874); Christ. 

 Rom. Mem. v. p. 34, pi. 2. f. 6i Stand. Cat. Lep, pal. p. 242. 



S . Head and thorax while mixed with pale red-brown and some 

 blackish scales ; basal joint of antennse with some black scales ; 

 tegulye with two brown lines near base and one near tips ; tarsi 

 brownish ringed with white ; abdomen white slightly tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing white tinged with pale brown ; a white fascia 

 in basal half of submedian fold with a fine brown streak in the 

 fold with some blackish at extremity ; subbasal line represented by 

 two slight black points below costa, the antemedial line by two 

 black points on costa and two on vein 1 ; a white fascia in middle 



Fig. 83. — BluibinojJteryx turanica, J . \. 



of cell with fine brown streak in the fold, some blackish beyond it 

 before the reniform, which is small, white, with brown line iu 

 centre ; postmedial line represented by a double series of black 

 points, bent outwards and almost obsolete below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then strongly incurved, some small white spots beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line represented by an oblique curved series 

 of white marks in the interspaces with small black spots iu their 

 centres and slight fuscous marks on their outer edges ; a series of 

 small black spots just before termen on white marks; cilia white 

 with fuscous striae at base, fuscous line at middle, the tips chequered 

 white and brownish with series of small black spots. Hind wing 



