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RHYNCHODONTODES. By W. Warren. 



at its end ; the outer branch of oblique shade is tinged with rufous ; subterminal line dark grey ; terminal lunules 

 black; fringe pale with two broad grey lines; hindwing ochreous dusted with olive grey, with dark ceUspot 

 and terminal line; fringe whitish; nearest to cramboides Btlr., but without the brown tints; the forewing 

 narrower with sharper apex. Kashmir. 



innotala. R. innotata spec. nov. (73a). Forewing ochreous, dusted and suffused with dusky grey; a diffuse dark 



fuscous shade from apex to beyond middle of inner margin ; terminal area, except towards inner margin, and 

 fringe greyish fuscous ; hmdwing dull grey, paler towards base. The <J is paler than $, more ochreous, without 

 the fuscous tinge. Scinde Valley, Kashmir. Smaller and stunter than albidula. 



Subsect. B. Forewing elongate and much narrower. 



angustalis. R. angustalis Warr. (73 a). Forewing dark grey tinged with brown, thickly speckled with fuscous; a 



black dot in cell towards base; inner line rarely visible, marked by a black dot at base of vein 2; outer 

 line oblique, formed of black spots between veins, that below vein 6 displaced basewards; an ochreous 

 white streak from a.pex to upper angle of cell; hindwing uniform fuscous grey, with a dull dark cell spot. 

 Described from the Punjab; occurring in the Goorais Valley, Kashmir. 



116. Genus: Rliyiicliocloiitodes gen. 



nov. 



Differs from Rhynchina Guen. by its shorter and broader forewings, which bear a tooth of scales on 

 inner margin before anal angle; scaling thicker and heavier; slight tufts of raised scales as in Hypena; the 

 markings more varied; palpi with terminal segment upturned; forewing with two double lines, the inner 

 angled below, the outer above the middle; subterminal line dentate. Type R. antiqualis Hbn. 



aniiqualis. R. antiqualis Hbn. (73 b). Forewing bluish grey or bluish white, suffused with brown and fuscous; 



the lines white with a rufous central line; the inner angled on submedian fold and more acutely on subcostal 

 vein; the outer bluntly angled beyond cell, and followed below middle by black spots between the veins; 

 subterminal line irregularly denticulate, preceded by black wedge shaped marks and at costa by a patch 

 of whitish irroration, accompanied throughout by ferruginous brown sealing ; orbicular stigma indistinct, formed 

 of black semi-erect scales ; the reniform a vertical ridge of white scales ; fringe dark grey, with a bluish white 

 line at base and another beyond middle; hindwing brownish grey, the fringe darker towards apex. Occurs 

 in Dalmatia, Carniola, the Tyrol, and S. E. Europe; also in Asia Minor, Armenia, and Tura. Larva feeds, 

 teste Mann, in the upper leaves of Salvia officinalis. 



rm-alis. R. ravalis H.-Sck. (73 a). Forewing grey with very slightly developed markings and scarcely any broAvn 



suffusion; the lines, where visible, are placed much as in antiqualis, but the outer line only is distinct, and 

 centralis, the subterminal pale without dark shading; the form separated by Staudinger as ab. centralis from Central 

 Asia (Margelan, Taschkend, Namangan, etc.) has, however, well developed markings, mixed with dark brown, 

 the examples often varying much inter se, sometimes with the basal hah brownish and the outer half, sharply contra- 

 sted, grey; the typical more uniformly grey examples occur in Syria (Amasia) and Taurus (Hadjin, MarascK), 

 syriacalis. Malatia, and Mardin; — subsp. syriacalis Stgr. (= revolu talis Led. nee Zell.) (73 b) is a light greyish brown 

 form, with a powdery look, having some dark marks beyond outer line as in antiqualis; besides Syria, 

 Staudinger mentions 2 examples of this from Schahrud, N. Persia and a specimen from Afghanistan is 

 cxlorris. in the Tiing Museum; the subsp. extorris subsp. nov. (73b) from Cyprus (Larnaca) and Luxor, Egypt, is 

 sandy grey, with the outer line rusty on an ochreous yellow curved streak, which is more obliquely placed than 

 in syriacalis. 



mardinalis. R. mardinalis Stgr. Forewing light grey; the costa broadly dark to beyond middle; a dark oblique 



band from apex to inner margin, often interrupted in middle; outer line often obsolete below costa, when 

 present sharply angulated outwards, finer below and pale brownish; hmdwing pale or dark grey; resembles 

 antiqualis Hbn., in the contrast between the light and dark grey markings, rather than ravalis. Mesopotamia. 



raculalis. R. ravulalis Stgr. (73 b). This species was separated by Statjdinger as having the forewings decidedly 



narrower, with more acute apex, and a faint whitish apical streak. Found only at Sarepta. 



