1284 CATALOGUE OF 



Luteous. Body beneath and legs silvery white. Palpi pilose, 

 porrect, shorter than the breadth of the head; third joint extremely 

 short. Antennas smooth, rather stout. Wings with two purple 

 bands; first band postmedial ; second submarginal; marginal line 

 purple. Fore wings slightly acute, with a purple slightly undulating 

 antemedial line; first band undulating, connected in the middle 

 with the second ; exterior border hardly convex, moderately oblique. 

 Hind wings semihyaline. Length of the body 3^ lines ; of the wings 

 9 lines. 



a. South Hindostan. Presented by M. J. Walhouse, Esq. 



Rhodaria concatenalis. 



Fcem. Purpuras cente-cenea ; palpi lati, suberecti, articulo So 

 conico ; aim linea marginali pallide flava ; anticce gutta sub- 

 costali antemedia, macula magna elongata postmedia strigaque 

 costali exteriore fiavis ; posticce vitta costali brevi lata pallide 

 flava. 



Female. Purplish aeneous. Body beneath and legs gilded 

 whitish, shining. Palpi broad, nearly erect, whitish beneath at the 

 base, not rising higher than the vertex ; third joint conical, not more 

 than one-sixth of the length of the second. Abdomen extending 

 much beyond the hind wings. Legs smooth ; anterior knees, fore 

 tibiae near their tips and middle tibiae above purplish aeneous. 

 Wings with a pale yellow marginal line. Fore wings slightly acute, 

 with a yellow subcostal antemedial dot, with a large elongated post- 

 medial yellow spot, which extends across almost half the breadth 

 from the costa, and with an exterior short yellow costal streak ; exte- 

 rior border slightly convex and oblique. Hind wings with a broad 

 pale yellow stripe along half the length of the costa from the base. 

 Length of the body 7 lines; of the wings 16 Hues. 



Closely allied to JR. Acuphisalis and to R, Noraxalis. 



a. Darjeeling. Presented by the Secretary of the India Board. 



Rhodaria formosalis. 



Fcem. Lcete Jlava ; caput et thorax anticus rosea ; palpi sub- 

 ascendentes, articulo 2o subtus fimbriate , 3o lanceolato ; thoracis 

 latera subochracea ; abdomen cinereum, apice roseum ; alee 

 anticce vittis duabus fasciaque marginali roseis ; posticce ceneo- 

 cinerece, fimbria rosea. 



