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the last with the crest on 3rcl segment tipped with black. Fore 

 wing whitish suffused with rufous, leaving the inner area and a 

 patch on costa before apex whitish ; faint traces of two oblique 

 rufous antemedial lines from costa to submedian fold and traces of 

 an oblique rufous discoidal bar with some whitish beyond it; poste- 

 rn edial line dentate, very indistinct and oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, inwardly oblique, waved, and with white suffusion beyond 



Fig. 144. — Hypcrcodia diBparilis, (^ . \. 



it from vein 3 to inner margin ; a terminal series of slight brown 

 lunules; cilia white mixed with rufous. Hind wing whitish 

 uniformly suffused with rufous ; the underside white slightly 

 irrorated with rufous, the costal area suffused with rufous, a dark 

 discoidal point, indistinct minutely waved curved postmedial line, 

 and terminal series of points. 



Huh. Borneo, Sarawak {Wallace), 1 c? , 1 5 ^^yps- Exi^. S 20, 

 5 24 millim. 



Genus RHYNCHODIA, nov. 



Type, B. meso'phcBa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint bent forward at extremity 

 and projecting about twice the length of head, tliie 3rd long and porrect ; Irons 

 smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennfe of male somewhat laminate and minutely 

 ciliated; thorax clothed almost entirely with scales and without crests ; tibias 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore 

 wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from below upper angle ; 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked ; 11 froui cell; male with the cell, the area just beyond it and below 

 it to submedian fold clothed on underside with black androconia. Hind wing 

 with veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 nearly fully developed from below middle 

 of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosiug with the cell near base 

 only. 



5737. Rhyncliodia mesophsea, n. sp. 



S . Head and thorax pale rufous slightly mixed with fuscous : 

 fore tibise and tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen pale rufous 

 dorsally suffused with black except towards extremity and with 

 slight segmental lines, the ventral surface irrorated with black. 

 Fore wing rufous, the antemedial costal area and the medial area 

 suffused with blackish, some grey suffusion between end of 

 cell and postmedial line ; subbasal line represented by a curved 

 black striga from costa ; some blackish at base of inner margin; 



