ELVESIA. EHYNCHAGLiEA. 435 



irrorated with grey. Hind wing pale rufous suffused with hrown 

 •except on costal and terminal areas ; a waved rufous terminal line : 

 cilia greyish at tips ; the underside yellowish, the costal half suffused 

 with rufous, a small blackish discoidal spot, slightly sinuous post- 

 medial line, and indistinct diffused subterminal b^nd. 



Hah. SiKHiJT, Tonglo, 10,000' (Elwes), type f 2 in Coll. Elwes. 

 ^.vp. 32 millim. 



Genus EHYNCHAGL^A, nov. 



Type, S. scitula. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi with the 2nd joint oblique to just beyond 

 the large frontal tuft and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd long, porreot, and 

 dilated at extremity ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennae of male 

 minutely ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair only, the tegulte pro- 

 duced to a slight dorsal ridge, the thorax without distinct crests; pectus clothed 

 with long hair ; abdomen dorsally flattened, with some rough hair at base and 

 lateral fringes of hair but without crests. Fore wing with the apex slightly 

 produced, the termen slightly crenulate, somewhat excurved at middle, then 

 oblique ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 Yeins 3, 4 fi-om angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 

 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2640. Rhynchaglsea scitula. 



Xylophasia scitula, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 359 (1879). 



(5 . Head and thorax darli purple-brown mixed with rufous ; 

 tarsi fuscous ringed with rufous ; abdomen fuscous brown, the 

 ventral surface pale rufous with sublateral black spots on two 

 medial segments. Fore wing dark purple-brown, the basal and post- 

 medial areas rufous and with numerous dark striae ; subbasal line 

 represented by two slight striae from costa ; antemedial line in- 

 distinctly double, filled in with rufous on inner area, minutely 

 waved; orbicular and reniform small, very indistinctly and in- 

 completely defined by rufous, the former round ; postmedial line 



Fig. 152. — EliytichaglcBa scitula, (^ . \, 



indistinctly double filled in with some rufous, bent outwards below 

 costa, then minutely waved, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by some 

 brown suffusion at costa, then by a series of minute somewhat 

 dentate brown marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, the area beyond it purple-brown except at 

 apex ; a terminal series of slight dark points. Hind wing fuscous 



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