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LEUCANIIU^.— XYLOPHASIID^. 
the cell ; a transverse series of short elongated blackish dots on the veins ; fringe grey, 
sericeous, shot with pink : secondaries pale brownish grey, silvery on costa ; fringe whitish, 
traversed by a grey stripe ; margin and fringe tinted with pink : body white ; head, collar, 
and anus slightly greyish, edged with pink ; the collar traversed by two dark grey lines. 
Primaries below shining rosy whitish, the discoidal area, excepting the median streak, 
blackish, the internal borders white ; fringe dark gi'cy : secondaries shining white ; costal and 
apical areas piiik irrorated with black ; fringe tinted with pink at apex : body beloAv dull 
liesh-pink. Expanse of wings 35 millim. 
Dharmsala; at sugar. 
TYMPANISTES, Moore. 
Tympanistes rubidorsalis. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 5.) 
Tympanistes rubidorsalis, Moore, Froc. Zool. >Soc. 1883, p. 409. 
Nearly allied to T. pallida : primaries broader, with more angulated outer margin, pale 
yellowish brown irrorated with dark brown, sericeous, more or less tinted with pink, tliinly 
scaled ; a brown annulus at the end of the cell and two verj' faintly indicated, irregularly 
sinuated, grey lines representing the central belt : secondaries white, transparent, with rosy 
abdominal area : head and thorax whity brown ; abdomen rose-red, with the margins of the 
posterior segments and the sides pure white. Under surface white; wings sericeous, pearly ; 
tarsi brownish. Expanse of wings 50 millina. 
Dharmsala ; at sugar. 
" Makes a noise like a small policeman's rattle." 
XYLOPHASIID.E. 
XYLOPHASIA, Steph. 
Xylophasia repetita. (Plate CXXVII. figs. 1, 2.) 
Allied to X hepatica of England, redder-, the black markings replaced by red-brown ; 
the reniform spot blackish with a pale border ; the pale subbasal stripe of the primaries 
crossing the wing, not interrupted by a blackish internal patch as in X. hepatica ; the 
outlines of the central belt more oblique ; the submarginal pale stripe indistinct, bounded 
internally by a complete series of red-brown spots in pairs and followed by a series of longi- 
tudinal blackish dashes instead of the black marginal spots : secondaries gradually darker 
from the middle to the outer margin, but with no defined external border; a series of dusky 
marginal lunules followed by a pale tawny line at the base of the fringe. Female like the 
male, or else almost exactly like A', lateritia of Europe. Expanse of wings 42-50 millim. 
Dharmsala ; at sugar in July : a rare species. 
